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 [...]
Archive | June, 2008
Design and a theory of everything
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 [...]
Defining Sustainability As Cradle To Cradle Design
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 [...]
