Category: design
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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 at Undercurrent of common characteristics across their list of the most responsive organisations of 2014…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here are my favourite links curated this week by Fraggl: Beautiful travel posters made by NASA featuring actual exoplanets? OK then. Re-building history's biggest dot-com bust. Can Instacart (which recently secured $220m in funding) make it where WebVan didn't? Danah Boyd talks sense about the well-shared teenager's view of social media Lengthy but excellent read about the making of Pulp Fiction Sam Altman on…
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On Design, Strategy and Planning
Shane Parrish had a great extract from (of all places) The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual describing the relationship between design and planning. Worth repeating in full: "While both activities seek to formulate ways to bring about preferable futures, they are cognitively different. Planning applies established procedures to solve a largely understood problem within an…
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The Problem With Powerpoint
Much used, and yet so much maligned. Poor Powerpoint. Latest in a long line of detractors is Evernote CEO Phil Libin who, at Le Web the other day, said that Powerpoint is a 'lot of what's wrong with the world today' and that Office software was partly to blame for making work 'unpleasant for many people'.…
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You Are Not a Storyteller
Lots to like about this short film featuring Stefan Sagmeister debunking what's wrong with the whole 'storytelling' thing. I may have been guilty of a bit of this in the past myself but he's right – there's 'storytelling', and then there's storytelling. HT Kirsty Angus for the link
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Google Firestarters 13 – Agencies and Product Innovation – The Event
The intersection of product innovation and agency culture and practice is a theme that has generated considerable debate in our industry and one that has been put forward by several Google Firestarters regulars as one that we should run an event on. So on Wednesday we did just that, with a packed house and three…
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Usability Trumps Persuasion
So the Dots conference, hosted admirably by Antony Mayfield and the smart folk at Brilliant Noise on Wednesday was rather good. Antony kindly asked me to curate it for them so I'm somewhat biased, but it seems like lots of other people think so too, which is nice. Adam (the best live blogger I know)…
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Google Firestarters 12 – Designing for the Future
The next Google Firestarters event is happening next week on Tues 15th at 6.15pm, at Google HQ in London. We're theming the event around 'Designing for the Future', and considering how we design for a world filled with sensors, connected devices, wearables and embedded internet. The only thing we can say for sure is that…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here's my favourite links from this week, curated by Fraggl: I really like the look of Bossy (above and below). Bossy is a project from design student Lucas Neumann. A wonderfully thought through and lovely looking productivity device that connects to your calendars, apps and to do lists to display your top three priorities as bubbles on the screen.…