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Forrester’s Gen Y design principals

March 17th, 2008 1 Comment

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 social interactivity.Recently, [...]

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why us kidz love 80s retro

March 14th, 2008 No Comments

 
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 wanna dance.
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