Entries by Bryan

4 March 2010
By Bryan
In Design, Music, Video
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OK Go and Rube Goldberg

I thought about how one goes about creating a Rube Goldberg machine – and the more I thought about it, creating Rube Goldberg machines is kind of what I do. More on that later. For now, here’s one of the better Rube Goldberg machines, made possible by the creative technologists at Syyn Labs.

2 March 2010
By Bryan
In Design, Events, Presentations
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MITX Mobile Presentation

On Friday the 19th I was honored to be asked to speak on mobile application strategy as a component of a service to customers. The presentation was short – 12 minutes long – but I hoped I conveyed a bit of value in that time. Hell, Justin Timberlake, Timberland and Madonna only needed a third [...]

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1 March 2010
By Bryan
In Presentations, Video
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The State of the Internet

Creative agency and data visualization specialist JESS3 put together this onslaught of figures and numbers on what we do online. It does of nice job of showing some staggering figures without harping on their significance. By the time it takes you to register that Asia has nearly three times the number of Internet users as [...]

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5 February 2010
By Bryan
In Design, Events
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Speaking@MITX: On Designing iPhone Applications

If you’re a UX designer or developer and you’re interested in learning about the hows and whys of designing mobile applications – specifically for the iPhone – then this event is for you. I’m honored to be a member of the panel of experts for the MITX event “Designing iPhone Apps: It’s more than just beautiful [...]

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5 February 2010
By Bryan
In Design, Entrepreneurship, Events
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LaunchCamp Session:5 Ways to Develop Your Product

LaunchCamp, an open one-day conference for early-stage entrepreneurs and “intrapreneurs,” we put together by the good folks at Fresh Ground PR, took place yesterday at the Microsoft NERD center in Cambridge, linked with Social Media Breakfast Boston.  I had the pleasure of facilitating one of the break-out forums on product development. The session was filled with great minds, [...]

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21 December 2009
By Bryan
In Humor, Video
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The Onion: Internet Archaeologists Find Ruins of ‘Friendster’ Civilization

I was just thinking this evening about our digital dossier, specifically about what digital archaeologists will be able to dig up hundreds of years from now from fragmented chips found buried in the rubble — and it turns out, The Onion was thinking about the same thing.

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3 December 2009
By Bryan
In Published
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Four Online Gimmicks that Failed

I recently wrote an article for iMedia Connection called 4 Online Gimmicks that failed. Some hightlights: ARTICLE HIGHLIGHTS: When telling a story, make it at least tangentially related to the brand Although it’s cliche, participating on equal footing with consumers is a necessity Once you’ve established a circle of trust, it is critical that you not break it Feel free [...]

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1 December 2009
By Bryan
In Design, Published
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The Michelin Guide: Brand as a Service, circa 1900

I’ve been chipping away at the stack of New Yorker magazines that have accumulated on my nightstand recently. One of the better articles was John Colapinto’s “Lunch with M.” from the November 23, 2009 edition, in which he tags along with a reviewer for the New York edition of  the Michelin Guide.  I’ve been thinking about ways we, [...]

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20 July 2009
By Bryan
In Personal
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Cleaning the House, Prepping for Guests

Please excuse the wonkiness over the next day or so. The blog is undergoing a pretty significant overhaul and redesign, as I am preparing for my return to the written word.

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11 February 2009
By Bryan
In Design, Published
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Psst. Over Here.

I’ll be blogging occasionally, along with the rest of my experience design, digital strategy, and emerging technologies brethren, over here at Molecular Voices. My first post, about the New York Times as a Service Platform, is up!

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