Category: inspiration
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User-centricity
A great view on really putting the user at the centre, from a Google engineer (via Paul Frampton).
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here are my favourite links from this week, curated by Fraggl: An unusually good native advertising execution from Wired in the form of a Netflix sponsored feature (above) on the state of TV, authored by (friend of ODF) Grant McCracken. For a counterpoint to the hype around native advertising, Andrew Sullivan (of The Dish) had some forthright…
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Persistence
In between meetings yesterday I went to look at the David Bailey exhibition, curated by the man himself at the National Portrait Gallery (which was wonderful) and in one of the displays typed onto a piece of card was this quote: "Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing…
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iDoneThis
Reading some more around the organisational culture at Buffer, I came across iDoneThis. It's a simple productivity app that (as you can see above) sends staff a reminder email each evening asking what they did that day. The next day, staff get a digest with what everyone on the team managed to get done. As…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Slow Life from Daniel Stoupin on Vimeo. Here are my favourite links from this week, curated by Fraggl: “‘Slow’ marine animals show their secret life under high magnification” (above). Stunning. “‘Big data’ has arrived, but big insights have not. The challenge now is to solve new problems and gain new answers – without making the same old statistical mistakes on…
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Culture At Buffer
The Buffer Culture – Version 0.3 from Buffer Econsultancy had a post with eight different takes on company culture. One of them came from Buffer (worth checking out the Etsy one too) which I'd seen before, but it's worth a reminder of the nine values on which they base their culture: Always choose positivity and…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here's my favourites from this week, curated by Fraggl: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat". An extraordinary view on work, joy, and how to live rather than exist from Anna Quindlen, taken from a commencement address (above) never given but widely circaulated Lovely: What to do if you’re falling out of love with New York An exceptional post from Martin Wiegel…
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Google Firestarters 11 – The Strategy is Delivery – The Event
Last week we had Russell Davies, Creative Director at the Government Digital Service and erstwhile Head of Planning at Nike, Wieden and Kennedy and Ogilvy amongst others, speak at our eleventh Google Firestarters event. I’ve long wanted to have Russell at a Firestarters and he didn’t disappoint. Regular readers will know of my admiration for…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here's my favourite links from this week, curated by Fraggl: An excellent post from Tim Kastelle on the biggest gap in innovation – doing nothing and doing something Interesting data from mobile analytics company Flurry benchmarking the half life and decay of mobile apps A fascinating piece on the two year quest by Google to create the ultimate customisable, modular smartphone (above). The value of…