Archived Entries for Design

Anything related to design. Good design, bad design, service design, experience design, product design. The list goes on.

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.

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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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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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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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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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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Crowdsourcing Architecture

A few weeks ago I shared the story of Studio Wikitecture with a number of architect friends of mine. Studio Wikitecture is a group of professionals from diverse backgrounds dedicated to bringing the core concepts of the open source movement (crowd sourcing, shared IP, decentralized intelligence) to the architecture of physical spaces. The group recently [...]

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Change is Good: A New Gig

With all of the issues I’ve had on this blog — a horrendous hosting provider, a failed experiment with unproven blog software, family craziness, and a case of walking pneumonia, to list but a few — perhaps the reason I’ve been silent here as much as I have was because I have embarked on [...]

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The Social Network Clutter Problem

In preparation for the launch of this website, I did a lot of pruning and cleaning of the various social network sites of which I am a member. As you would expect, the more involved in any particular social network, the more connections I made. Inevitably, responding to the amount of communication within my networks [...]

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