Category: inspiration
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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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Working at Dropbox
This morning's Fraggl email had a link to this video from Dropbox describing what it's like to work there. I talk a fair bit about 'digitally-native' culture in organisations and this is a lovely way of expressing it.
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here's my favourite links, curated by Fraggl: An excellent community development playbook developed by Meg Pickard (ex-The Guardian and GDS) Focus groups are worthless. Much as I've said before now. A well observed Kirsten Dunst short film on awkward selfie culture Some great Apple Watch thinking here from technology analyst Ben Thomson "A lot of the most interesting people in the industry are leaving the…
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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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Post of the Month – August 2014 – The Winner
Quite a split vote this month but in the end it was Paul Ford's charming How To be Polite that won and so Paul is duly entered into the hall of fame. Thanks to everyone who took part.
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Google Firestarters 13 – Agencies and Product Innovation
A few years back Murat Mutlu wrote a post that got a lot of conversation going around whether an agency could build the next Instagram or Angry Birds. His post raised some interesting questions around what capabilities modern agencies should have and whether they should be messing around with digital products at all or just…
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Post of the Month – August 2014 – Nominations
Time for nominations for Post of the Month – if there are any posts that you have read over the past month that you particularly liked please do nominate them via the comments below or direct. I have a short starting list below. You'll see I have a double nomination for John Willshire – all…
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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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Post Of The Month – July 2014 – The Winner
Well done to Ian Fitzpatrick whose post on Intake and Interruption took an early lead in voting and deservedly never looked back. Ian joins the hall of fame, and my thanks to everyone who took part. Next vote in early September.