Month: October 2013
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What Makes Quartz So Innovative?
My obsession with Quartz continues. Thanks to Phil for pointing at this MondayNote analysis (the first in a two-parter) into their more 'digitally native' editorial practices. Quartz is interesting as an examplar of what the piece calls "the emergence of a new breed
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Doing a Snowfall
The kind of richly designed multimedia article formats that I wrote about here have become quite the thing. Just check out this already lengthy and ever expanding open list of Snowfall-like features that typically use combinations of infinite and/or parallax scrolling, and
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The Ten Types of Innovation
Innovation is often considered in quite one dimensional ways, and yet it is of-course a multi-dimensional thing. In their book 'Ten Types of Innovation: The Discipline of Building Breakthroughs', the authors Larry Keeley, Ryan Pikkel, Brian Quinn, and Helen Walters identified ten
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On Company Longevity
Thanks to Tim Kastelle for telling me about this fascinating piece of work (PDF) by Professor Richard Foster of Yale University. Foster found that the average lifespan of a company in the S&P 500 index has decreased from 61 years in 1958 to
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Beauty and the Business Objective
Tim O Reilly makes an interesting point picking up on Farhad Manjoo's fascinating piece about Google's new cross-company commitment to design under Larry Page, and what that has meant in terms of how it has had to shift gears from utility to