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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
