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Getting Twitterpated
Paying homage to my colleague, Bob, by posting a reference I made to him and his thoughts on Twitter today. And by doing so, illustrate the effect this 2.0 element of 'social networking' is having to change our daily experiences. [Read bottom-up] For those less familiar with Twitter, it was... Read more...
Published 2 months ago
Making Lemonade
My original title for this was "Changing the Rules", but then I saw the broader beauty of what's being done here. Start with a good recipe: Find an experience people complain about...a lot. [Get your ideas from the 'joke butts' of the late night talk show hosts.] Find a way to make it better.... Read more...
Published 3 months ago
Amazon Kindle: Video Review
Great video review of the Amazon Kindle by Walt Mossberg from the Wall Street Journal: http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid742148386/bctid1327153737 [reference previous post on Amazon Kindle] Read more...
Published 3 months ago
Davos 2008: Collaborative Innovation at the Global Country Club
As it does each year at this time, the World Economic Forum is happening in Switzerland, holds its annual intellectual funfest for the high and the mighty. The WEF, a nonprofit institute officially dedicated to improving the state of the world -- and funded accordingly -- stages this annual... Read more...
Published 4 months ago
Designing Today for a Very Different Tomorrow: Suggestions for the coming Age of Austerity
Yesterday I wrote despairing that most designers are busy designing products intended to promote consumption and that end up as waste, while all objective indicators signal the need to start designing for a very different future of limits, constraints, and parsimony. Then I came across Designing... Read more...
Published 4 months ago
Designing Today for a Very Different Tomorrow: The coming Age of Austeriy
It's another New Year. According to the Chinese calendar, which begins anew on the 7th of February, 2008 is a Year of the Rat. Rat years are fertile for new beginnings: A Rat Year is a time of hard work, activity, and renewal. This is a good year to begin a new job, get married, launch a... Read more...
Published 4 months ago
Amazon Kindle: A New Experience Channel
While the likes of the iPhone expand our access to online, Amazon embraces our changing states of online and offline by synthesizing them in an experience-specific device, the Kindle, for wireless reading. Amazon reinforces the synthesis by using the term electronic-paper. With a pricetag of... Read more...
Published 4 months ago
Shine Doesn't Matter
...well at least not nearly as much as comfort. It's amazing what a company can discover when they actually do deep research about their products from the customer's perspective. Discovering such facts is fairly significant to your business model when you're in the shoe 'shine' business, like... Read more...
Published 5 months ago
Prisoners in the Digital Panopticon: The Experience of Constant Surveillance -- Or, When Bad Things Beckon to Good Designers
The Panopticon was 18th-Century English philosopher Jeremy Bentham's concept of the ideal prison. It consists of two components: a central tower in which the jailers reside, invisible to the prisoners; and a ring of cells around the central tower in which the inmates toil, behind bars that do... Read more...
Published 5 months ago
Paranoia and recklessness among national leaders: what role do events play?
Several recent political events will test the hypothesis that national leaders become paranoiac and rule recklessly when their worldviews dramatically part company with reality. Take two cases of radical disagreement (also known in politics as betrayal). In the US, the issuance of a National... Read more...
Published 5 months ago
Confronting the authenticity conundrum: A review of Authenticity, by Gilmore and Pine
Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want, by James Gilmore and Joseph Pine II, Harvard Business School Press, 2007 Authenticity is an ambitious volume by Jim Gilmore and Joe Pine, authors of the 1999 marketing classic, The Experience Economy: Work is Theater and Every Business a Stage.... Read more...
Published 6 months ago
'Fill 'er up! as a customer experience, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Big Oil
The price of sweet crude oil futures is nearing a $100 high-water mark that will inevitably result in social sticker shock, followed by resentment everywhere except among the OPEC nations. Marketers and brand managers of gasoline and other consumer petroleum products will be busier than ever.... Read more...
Published 6 months ago
