Twitter, the ever-popular microblogging service, has had major site outages and bugs lately. And the usually enthusiastic Twitter user-base is growing frustrated 140-characters at a time. So if Twitter doesn’t recover soon, they may never recover at all. This site is becoming a great example for companies of how important basic service features are, like [...]
Entries from June 26th, 2008
Twitter Gets A Can Of Site Downtime Whoopassss
June 26th, 2008 2 Comments
Tags: analytics · consumer adoption · conversations · early adopters · jaiku · pownce · reliability · site traffic · twitter · usability · web trends
Some Thoughts on MySpace’s Redesign
June 18th, 2008 No Comments
MySpace is rolling out their new re-design, as of yesterday, which the brilliant folks at Adaptive Path played a large part in. I’m always impressed by their work, but I was surprised by the screenshots of the redesign I saw on Valleywag who notes:
“When Fox Interactive began interviewing Web designers for the job last [...]
Tags: danah boyd · facebook · fox interactive · friendster · myspace · myspace redesign · scobelizer · social media · undesigned · urban youth · usability · user experience
Design and a theory of everything
June 17th, 2008 2 Comments
Cati Vaucelle posted a picture of NASA using 3D composing with sound-controlled CGI to make magnetic fields visible, and this got me thinking about universality.
Recently as I have been studying design strategy, I’ve noticed that the most effective design processes as cyclical. User research feeds design prototyping, which feeds user research. And with sustainable design, [...]
Tags: design processes · design strategy · effective design · harmonic series · magnetic fields · physics · string theory · sustainable design · vibrations
Defining Sustainability As Cradle To Cradle Design
June 16th, 2008 7 Comments
What do companies mean when they create eco-friendly products? There’s a big difference between making small changes to a product, and then marketing it as green, and creating truly sustainable offerings.
Poland Spring’s Eco-Shaped bottle uses less plastic than any other water bottle. But the packaging is still plastic, and bottled water is a product [...]
Tags: business model · carbon cycle · cradle to cradle design · deisgn · greenwashing · photosynthesis · sustainability
Turning A Facebook App Into A Viral Hit
June 12th, 2008 No Comments
Last month, I wrote about Jia Shen’s approach to designing killer Facebook applications. He’s the co-founder of RockYou, the makers of SuperWall (2 million daily active users).
Today, I want to take Jia’s approach, and season it with some of my own thinking to see how we might redesign an existing Facebook app called “Nordsrtom [...]
Tags: facebook · facebook apps · fashion · nordsrtom · rockyou · social design · social media
The Zen of Design Strategy
June 10th, 2008 1 Comment
Summary: I’ve been traveling non-stop to design agencies recently. Hope to post about my experiences soon. For now, I’ve been thinking about the intersection of design and strategy. Here’s a zen take on things…
I often dream about “what ifs.” Possibilities that could build a better world.
When I walk city streets I wonder: “what [...]
Tags: business · charles ives · commerce · design strategy · left brain right brain · strategic design · sustainable design · zen
