Category: design
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UX for Repetitive, Bored or Urgent
This is by no means a new idea (in fact it's rather old in mobile terms) but is still a useful way to categorise user tasks, particularly on mobile. Google have previously split users into three types of user behaviour: repetitive now, bored now, […]
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Gall’s Law
'Gall's Law' comes from John Gall's 1975 book Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail. Gall's work has inspired a number of authors in systems thinking but the book actually focuses more on what we can learn from system engineering […]
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Generative Design
Sometimes the whole people and technology debate can seem somewhat polarising, particularly when they're represented as mutually exclusive opposing forces when of-course the most interesting scenarios to work through are how one can augment the other. IA rather than AI. Intelligence Augmentation rather than […]
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Google Firestarters Austin – Engineering Strategy – The Event
Saturday saw our first ever Firestarters event in Austin, held in the Google Fiber space during SXSWi. We'd themed the event around the intersection of user experience design and strategy which, judging from the audience feedback and debate on the night is […]
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The Connector That Disconnects
I saw a charming talk here yesterday at SXSW by Dutch designer Daniel Disselkoen who themed his session around the idea that familiarity with a subject, our environment, surroundings or routine can limit discovery. This provides the basis for Daniel's work in […]
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Google Firestarters Comes to Austin
I’m delighted to announce that Google Firestarters is coming to Austin. Firestarters has always been about combining the most compelling speakers with provocative debate around the most interesting industry issues amongst the most inquisitive and restless minds in strategy and planning. So […]
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here are my favourite links from this week curated by Fraggl: An excellent profile piece on Jonathan Ive in the New Yorker which is well worth the read (I never realised that he had some influence over the design of the Star Wars light sabres) Inside the […]
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here are my favourite links from this week curated by Fraggl: FastCompany's annual look at the world's most innovative companies is as good as ever. I particularly liked the design, advertising and marketing, and the Africa lists A great piece on how the Nathan Barley […]
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here are my favourite links from this week curated by Fraggl: Really like the look of Flow (above) – a programmable, wireless controller for computers and other connected devices that has raised over $270K on Indiegogo The guys at (friends of ODF) Storythings are launching a […]
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here are my favourite links from this week curated by Fraggl: I loved this idea – using Google Streetview to safely treat Alzheimers. Check out the video An excellent post from Dave Trott on how advertising agencies are becoming the 'gift wrapping department' A good summation from Mike Arauz […]