Year: 2012
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Post Of The Month – July 2012 – The Vote
To paraphrase one of our nominators, Phil Adams, it’s been a great month for blog posts. Which means we have an excellent shortlist in this months vote, which is between: Leaving The Guardian, Creativity vs Mild Depression, The Quantified Self, and Running by Dan Catt Client/Agency Engagement is F*cked, Waterfall UX Design is a Symptomfrom Leisa Reichelt…
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The Meaning Trap
I really liked what Jack White has to say in this short clip about how inspiration and a good work ethic "ride right next to each other" (and how on stage he likes to deliberately make things harder for himself because all those little things build a tension that forces you to create). It's an…
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Post Of The Month – July 2012 – Nominations
Slightly later than usual due to holiday but it's Post Of The Month time. So please do nominate the best posts you have read in July in the comments below. As usual I have a few starters, and have had a couple of nominations already so I have a good list, but please do add to…
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Off The Grid
This chart published over on The Atlantic shows how out of kilter the US is in not requiring companies to give their staff paid annual leave. Almost worse than that is the fact that, according to a JetBlue/Harris Interactive study, no less than 57% of Americans ended up not using all the holiday time they were…
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Mobile Love
This is fascinating. Eric Barker quotes from Martin Lindstrom's book Brandwashed when he suggests that rather than being addicted to our phones, we're actually in love with them. When our phones go off, fMRI brain scans apparently illustrate a flurry of activation in the brain's insular cortex, which plays a key role in functions usually linked to…
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On The ‘Death’ Of Online Advertising
I've lost count of the number of articles I've read over the years declaring the death of online advertising. The reasons cited usually touch at some point on banner blindness, falling click-through-rates (the average CTR having dropped to less than a tenth of 1%), and the uneven distribution of clicks (Comscore's 'Natural Born Clickers' study for…
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Robo-Pricing
There was something of a kerfuffle recently when it became public knowledge that travel website Orbitz were recommending different price ranges of hotels based on the user's operating system. Data mining had told them that Mac users typically pay a premium of upto 30% on a night's stay so they were using data to improve…
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Stamen’s Watercolour Maps
Thanks to a tweet from Tom Uglow, I happened across these wonderful watercolour maps from Stamen design. I've long been a fan of Stamen's visualisation work. They were one of FastCompany's 50 most innovative companies last year and have done some great work with MTV, MSNBC, BMW, Digg and LOCOG which I'm a fan of. But…