Michael Wesch, a professor of cultural Anthropology at Kansas State U, caught a lot of people’s attention with a YouTube video that summarized the essence of Web 2.0. Recently he helped 200 of his students at KSU collaboratively surveyed their own media habits to really question traditional education — which is obsolete at best. These [...]
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What Is The Future Of Design? (Hint: it’s not the web)
What’s the future of design you ask? Taking game design concepts and ideas, and applying it to all other areas of design, from products to websites, to make experiences more engaging, addictive, and visceral. This week USA Today’s Mike Snider wrote an article: “Social sites help casual games reach the next level” where he talked [...]
Towards the Customer-Centric Organization
There’s exciting thought brewing right now about how user-centered design and customer experience thinking can impacting, not product or website design, but the very building blocks of business, like org charts, process flows, even manufacturing. As companies realize they need open up their marketing mentality, so are a handful applying that thought to other areas [...]
Forrester’s Gen Y design principals
Young consumers. Generation Yers. “Those crazy Kids!” You want to reach them online with a website or a Facebook app? You need a specific design framework that takes into account their very unique needs an desires. Forrester research guru, Bruce Temkin, and myself outlined four Gen Y design principals: immediacy, Gen Y literacy, individualism, and [...]
why us kidz love 80s retro
There’s a reason why my 18 year-old kid brother Jake loves watching VH1′s I love the 80s. Even though he was born in 1990. The kitschy, fashion-insane era of the 80s captures his interests much more than the 70s or 90s. There’s just something about big hair and tight gold pants that makes ya [...]
