User-centric design: evolved Robert Fabricant of frog talks more about UCD being about behavior not tasks and needs. (tags: ux innovation) It's all philanthropy Patagonia’s Founder on Why There’s “No Such Thing as Sustainability” from Fast Company (tags: sustainability business) What Will Cell Phones Look Like 10 Years From Now? Fast Company Q&A with some [...]
Advertising’s New Mantra: ReDesign the Experience
July 10th, 2009 3 Comments
“You cannot NOT have a user experience.” — Lou Carbone We experience the digital world as timely, relevant, useful, and personable. I can find out exactly what my friends are doing as they do it via Twitter or Facebook. Or grab directions to a restaurant and concert tickets on the go through my mobile phone. [...]
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The Best Of Annoying Design, Part I: design
July 8th, 2009 No Comments
This blog called “Annoying Design” is three years old now, which in internet years is an adult dog. I use this site as sort of a professional diary — a place for thinking, and focusing on what I have to offer the world. I’ve decided what I have to say is more broad than just [...]
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The Lifecycle of the CMO
July 2nd, 2009 No Comments
Yahoo will debut new branding in the fall, courtesy of a newly-hired CMO. Futurelab has an interesting take on how what most marketing execs do: burn through media money and leave. She has a newly hired coterie of her favorite branding gurus. There’s nothing surprising about this news: one of the first things new top [...]
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Marketing Lessons From An Ex-Marine
July 1st, 2009 No Comments
When Marines get rifle lessons, they learn the acronym BRASS: Breathe, Relax, Aim, Squeeze, Shoot, and Bruce Temkin wrote about how these can apply to marketing: Breathe: Set aside time every week to focus on what your brand is communicating. Don’t just assume you have it right for the next few years. Relax: Remember that [...]
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“Beta” doesn’t have to look bad
July 1st, 2009 2 Comments
I think the new agency site for CP+B is fantastic for three reasons: The aggregation concept is a solid approach for companies (@Jowyang points that out) — bringing together all the conversations around a company from across the web fits the paradigm of open and transparent. They’ve launched the site in an “open-beta,” the same [...]
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Good Design is…
June 30th, 2009 No Comments
If you own an iPod you’ll know Dieter Rams’ work by absorption. He was the head of design at Braun, the German consumer electronics manufacturer, and influenced Johnathan Ives, who designed the iPod: His “ten commandments” for good design focuses on simplicity and minimalism. This is a list a lot of industrial designers know, but [...]
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