February 2012
50 posts
“With the pregnancy products, though, we learned that some women react badly,”...”
– NY Times - How Companies Learn Your Secrets
“As Pole’s computers crawled through the data, he was able to identify about 25...”
– How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did
“Engagement is not a campaign, it’s a continuum where technology is merely an...”
– Why User Experience Is Critical To Customer Relationships
“The best interfaces leave tech behind and address larger systems of interaction.”
– 4 Elements That Make A Good User Experience Into Something Great
WatchThe mystery box: J.J. Abrams on TED.com
WatchBeyond Tools, Marketers Must Focus on Content (Altimeter Report)
“One thing I can tell you for sure is that everything you have is not going to be...”
– Forbes Interview on Mobile First
How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters [PDF] →
“Over and over, Apple has chosen not to pursue new products or services. It’s a...”
– 10 Lessons from inside Apple
“Tumblr operates at surprisingly huge scales: 500 million page views a day, a...”
– Tumblr Architecture - 15 Billion Page Views A Month And Harder To Scale Than Twitter
“Decades of research have consistently shown that brainstorming groups think of...”
– Keith Sawyer - psychologist at Washington University
“The underlying assumption of brainstorming is that if people are scared of...”
– Groupthink, The brainstorming myth - Jonah Lehrer
“According to Forrester, Walgreens had 25 percent of its transactions come from...”
– Preparing for a mobile-first world
“Just like you shouldn’t let sunk cost determine future decisions, don’t let sunk...”
– The mad dash to remove something before the deadline
“We put the smell of fresh coffee in gas stations at the pumps. And when you...”
– Inside Smellvertising, the Scented Advertising Tactic Coming Soon to a City Near You - Design - The Atlantic Cities
“Snowfall had declined more than 80 percent, but visits were down only 15...”
– No Business Like Snow Business: The Economics of Big Ski Resorts
“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably will...”
– Daniel Burnham
“Never confuse motion with action.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“To all the doubters and individuals who believe we can’t change I ask this:...”
– Lynda Leblanc in reply to Richard Branson’s Antarctica log 11
“What this means is that designing applications for mobile means that context—for...”
– The New Interface Is There Is No interface
“We used to treat computers like a tool, something that helps you do a task. Now...”
– The coming age of the smart personal assistant
“Don’t confuse context with intent. Being on a small screen doesn’t change...”
– Josh Clark: Busting Mobile Myths
“If 2011 was the year of the mobile consumer, 2012 is the year of the mobile...”
– Brian Solis - 2011 Was the Year of the Mobile Consumer, What’s in Store for 2012? Value.
“Carrefour’s problems are a mere rumble compared with the earthquake that is...”
– The Economist: Schumpeter - The coming retail boom
WatchHelge Tennø - The Next 80%
WatchNervous Structure Series (2010 - Present)
“What people say they do and what they do are two different things. Questions can...”
– An Event Apart: Hacking Users Brains
“A design is intuitive when current knowledge is equal to target knowledge. A...”
– An Event Apart: Properties of Intuitive Web Pages
“A web application is a “living” thing and all living things are continually...”
– Luke Wroblewski, Author, Mobile First
“Never follow your dreams. Follow your effort. It’s not about what you can dream...”
– Mark Cuban
“In professing that API design should not be centered around any one single mode...”
– Netflix’ Daniel Jacobson: Letting APIs Change Everything
“What we today call the “mobile app” could, in a very short period of...”
– Netflix’ Daniel Jacobson: Letting APIs Change Everything
WatchJane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world
“Building scale is hard, very hard. But if you already have scale, then you have...”
– The Dirty Little Secret Of Silicon Valley’s Startup Boom…
“So, do we really have a startup boom? Or is it a masquerade, a proxy for a...”
– The Dirty Little Secret Of Silicon Valley’s Startup Boom…
“As Facebook is not a paying service, you are not the customer, you are the...”
– Rory Cellan-Jones (BBC)