These are my links for October 31st from 11:01 to 15:53:

• Global Design Research Network - Steve Portigal, Daniel Szuc and others offer a global design research offering through collaboration. Interesting to see how it works out. Congratulations and all the best!
• DIY Lego Vehicles - Better than the Real Thing - Lego enthusiasts create vehicles inspired by (but more sophisticated than) the originals. With desktop 3D printers breaking $5k, when can we expect to see the same sort of casual reinvention with other consumer goods…it's like Lego has a physical API - interesting to see what other atoms will provide similar "build services".

These are my links for October 30th from 12:13 to 12:17:

• Failure Is Not an Option — It's a Requirement - Jared Spool's take on the necessity of failure. Reminds me in part of Richard Farson's Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins: the Paradox of Innovation
• Business Model Innovation Matters - SlideShare - Alex shares his slides on Business Model Innovation, including his updated Business Model Canvas. Super useful in early stage work and reinvention for mature companies…

These are my links for October 29th from 23:42 to 23:52:

• Methods for our madness - Thinking and Making - Austin Govella nicely breaks down methods into 7 basic types. Generate, Disambiguate, Deconstruct, Synthesis, Affinity, Priority, & Context. Thinking how this relates to Understand / Solve / Evaluate (which drives Insight, Possibility, and Priority)
• Johnny Holland - It’s all about interaction - New online UX zine. Without much background (read: none) on who's behind it, it's hard to judge if it will have staying power. thx InfoDesign

These are my links for October 28th from 09:36 to 11:15:

• Superstruct - Scenario Planning Game from IFTF - Institute for the Future runs Superstruct, a massive multiplayer scenario planning game focused on 5 key "superthreats" herald extinction for humanity
• Profile: Majora Carter - BusinessWeek - Got to spend some time with Majora at Overlap 08. What she's done and is doing is pretty inspiring. More interestingly is the amazing group of ppl around her, starting with her husband James…a quiet rock star.
• First look at Windows 7's User Interface - Ars Technica covers the PDC unveiling of the Windows 7 UI. Interesting choices…since there aren't major architectural changes under the hood (from Vista) then the team has been able to focus more on UX. Not much eathshattering, but it looks much more thought out.
• Design researchers: A tablet to call your own - Core77 - Via Dave Malouf on twitter - a concept for hardware dedicated to user researchers. Furthest out concept - useful subvocalization note taking capabilities.

These are my links for October 27th from 15:00 to 16:04:

• Teehan+Lax UX Fund down 31.67% - Since I blogged about it a couple weeks ago, the UX fund has slid almost another 10%. Ouch. More telling, its slide has closed the gap with the DOW and NASDAQ 100, erasing the substantial cushion of better returns and lower losses that design offered investors.
• metacool: What is design thinking? - Video from Roger Martin discussing design thinking, courtesy of Diego Rodriguez.

These are my links for October 27th from 14:32 to 14:58:

• Draft-Business-Model-Manual.pdf - Alex Osterwalder's draft Business Model Manual (pdf). Smart stuff.
• Online Communites and Their Impact on Business - Rubicon Consulting releases a 37 page report on the impact of online communities and social networks on business. I can see Harry Max's fingerprints…good stuff, particularly for decision makers who don't see the importance of online engagement.

These are my links for October 22nd from 15:40 to 16:29:

• Japanese Streets - Japanese street photography looking at trends and youth culture.
• See Steve Jobs share an internal presentation - 1991 video 'chalk talk' with Steve Jobs at NeXT talking about the market, using the whiteboard to underline his ideas. Great to see his thought process and presentation style as he outlines the market.

These are my links for October 21st through October 22nd:

• Sling.com - TV streaming online - Like Hulu, but with ties into slingbox hardware and eventually the ability to save clips from TV to share with friends
• Radical Service Innovation - BusinessWeek - Reprint of DMI service design article
• ISDN3 - Service Design Conference Audio - ISDN3 speakers, presentations, and audio from the International Service Design conference (thx Infodesign)
• IDEA 2008 - Podcasts from B&A - Jeff Parks has got the 2008 IDEA talks rounded up and online at Boxes and Arrows.

Sorry for the recent buggy delicious link posts - I’ve been manually formatting them by stripping escape characters, but the last couple days have a new wrinkle - the actual URL isn’t included somehow in the post…thanks for the folks who’ve pinged me about it.

Time to look at postalicious….

I’ve been thinking about writing, conference presentations, etc. and realized that the articles, books, and talks that I enjoy the most have a rhythm that blends Concept, Story, and Method (Dave Gray might suggest Visual as a fourth tinker toy; I’m on the fence there). So with those building blocks, then you can start to graph your own writing, sessions, or others’ and see how it looks - something like this: