Experience Innovation

Execution is everything. Or is it? 10 key rules behind every...

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:19:42 +0200

Execution is everything. Or is it? 10 key rules behind every startup idea from Adeo Ressi.

"Be contemporary. Have impact. Strive for it. Be of the world. Move it. Be bold, don’t hold back...."

Tue, 14 May 2013 19:44:17 +0200

“Be contemporary. Have impact. Strive for it. Be of the world. Move it. Be bold, don’t hold back. Then the moment you think you’ve been bold, be bolder. We are all alive today, ever so briefly here now, not then, not ago, not in some dreamworld of a hypothetical future. Whatever you do, you must make it contemporary. Make it matter now. You must give us a new path to tread, even if it carries the footfalls of old soles. You must not be immune to the weird urgency of today.”

- Wisdom from Ian Bogost’s commencement address at the University of Iowa, a fine addition to this ongoing archive of timeless advice. Pair with Greil Marcus’s fantastic 2013 School of Visual Arts commencement address.

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"Deliverables like lengthy specs, comprehensive wireframes, and pixel-perfect PSDs are all artifacts..."

Sun, 05 May 2013 09:06:09 +0200

“Deliverables like lengthy specs, comprehensive wireframes, and pixel-perfect PSDs are all artifacts from a time when risk-averse clients needed to enforce progress and limit variability. Inside of a product company, these efforts waste time, create politics, and mask responsibility”

- The rise of product design

"We believe we need creativity just as much as we need technology. We need storytelling just as much..."

Sat, 04 May 2013 09:12:41 +0200

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We believe we need creativity just as much as we need technology. We need storytelling just as much as we need data. We believe in the power of emotions and the irrational just as much as the rational.

If our marketing is to be modern we need the passion, creativity and craftsmanship of the right brain just as much as the analysis and logic of the left brain.

The digital age is providing increasingly ubiquitous access to everything. In this context we need innovation and creativity in our product and service design, as well as our marketing, to make an impression.

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- modern marketing manifesto

"We’ve come to refer to Experience Strategy as the practice that articulates “how to..."

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:28:20 +0200

“We’ve come to refer to Experience Strategy as the practice that articulates “how to choreograph people’s interactions with a brand’s products and services over extended periods of time.””

- Experience Strategy Now

"According to App Annie’s data, all of the current top 10 paid apps on the Kindle store are games...."

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:00:17 +0200

“According to App Annie’s data, all of the current top 10 paid apps on the Kindle store are games. Meanwhile, on Google Play, seven out of the top 10 paid apps are utility apps. This makes sense as Play enabled devices are predominantly phones, while Kindle is a tablet. This juxtaposition shows that screen size matters for apps when it comes to phones vs tablets.”

- (Screen) size matters for mobile interface design

An elastic touchscreen into which you can literally sink your...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:46:58 +0200

An elastic touchscreen into which you can literally sink your fingers

"Content’s purpose is to convey information. But its form is data, which is why information..."

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 08:26:36 +0200

“Content’s purpose is to convey information. But its form is data, which is why information architecture is so important.”

- Content strategy 101, Part 2:making data meaningful

Wearable design, Misfit and the age of the glanceable UI — Tech News and Analysis

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 09:58:00 +0200

Wearable design, Misfit and the age of the glanceable UI — Tech News and Analysis:

“A glanceable UI is about creating a second’s worth of meaning out of important and impactful data. Whether that’s a moment to convey how well you’re doing toward your daily fitness goal or a single blinking light to encourage more movement. As Om wrote recently, as data becomes the world’s currency, data without emotion, empathy or narrative is meaningless. Wearable gadgets can track as much data as they want, but if the user isn’t exposed to the data in a way that impacts their lives, and in a time frame that they can work with, then the device has failed.”

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Sat, 06 Apr 2013 17:22:11 +0200

"But with all that extra sharing would come a counterbalancing trend that would allow us to actually..."

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 10:06:41 +0200

“But with all that extra sharing would come a counterbalancing trend that would allow us to actually live our shared lives: Sharing would naturally become more passive in nature.”

- Mark Zuckerberg might be right about Moore’s law of sharing

How do you layer a programmable Internet of smart things on top...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 08:57:09 +0200

How do you layer a programmable Internet of smart things on top of the web? That’s the question addressed by Dominique Guinard in his ambitious dissertation: A Web of Things Application Architecture - Integrating the Real-World (slides).

"Good is the enemy of great. Great is the enemy of shipping."

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 08:17:20 +0200

“Good is the enemy of great. Great is the enemy of shipping.”

- An event apart: 10 commandments of web design.

"Device hand-offs allow mobile workers to fit more work into a given day, optimizing the form factor..."

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 07:48:41 +0100

“Device hand-offs allow mobile workers to fit more work into a given day, optimizing the form factor they choose to suit their context and goals.”

- The Hyper-Portability Of Tablets Drives Worker Productivity

"Last year Coke made a big splash when it announced that it would shift it’s business model to be..."

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 08:07:01 +0100

“Last year Coke made a big splash when it announced that it would shift it’s business model to be more open. Since then the company has been working with customers to enhance communications and even rely on consumers for product development. Last year the company asked its 50 million fans on Facebook (at the time) to suggest an invention, cause or social app that could spread happiness.”

- 5 Brands Winning at Crowdsourcing | Digiday (via futuristgerd)

"We’re entering a transformative period. That almost always happens about a decade into a new..."

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:38:01 +0100

“We’re entering a transformative period. That almost always happens about a decade into a new technology’s mass adoption.”

- BILL GROSS: The Future Of Making Money In Mobile [SLIDE DECK]

"Wi-Fi Posters are exactly what they sound like: posters that are turned into wireless hotspots. The..."

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:34:02 +0100

“Wi-Fi Posters are exactly what they sound like: posters that are turned into wireless hotspots. The campaign installed Wi-Fi devices on existing movie billboards, enabling users within range of the hotspot to access the network and interact with the movie. The movie Wi-Fi networks popped-up on smartphones like a regular wireless network, and the signal was named after the movie the poster was promoting. When users joined the network, they were taken to the movie’s official webpage and log-in where they could learn about the movie, see promotional events, watch full HD trailers, and buy tickets to see the film.”

- Movie Posters Double As WiFi Hotspots - PSFK - PSFK

70% of all mobile searches result in action within 1 hour. 70%...

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:16:00 +0100

70% of all mobile searches result in action within 1 hour. 70% of online searches result in action in 1 month.

"If you want to change your life, willpower is not the answer. The solution lies in smart product..."

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:59:07 +0100

“If you want to change your life, willpower is not the answer. The solution lies in smart product design, something we deliberate every day at Betterment, the behavioral-based investing startup I founded in 2008. Stephen Kraus, a senior vice president for the audience measurement group Ipsos MediaCT, agrees: “The bottom line is clear: there are growing opportunities for products, services and media brands that can help Affluents manage the trade-offs, and achieve the simplification they desire.””

- Digital Products Should Foster Good Habits. Here’s 4 Rules For Doing It

"In a study called “Web-Scale Pharmacovigilance: Listening to Signals from the Crowd, the..."

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:25:11 +0100

“In a study called “Web-Scale Pharmacovigilance: Listening to Signals from the Crowd, the scientists proved that by analyzing several million search queries, they could predict that two medications (an antidepressant and a cholesterol drug) would cause harmful side effects.”

- Using Google Data To Predict Drug Side Effects