June 2012
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The 12 Most Important Slides About Mobile From... →
statistics on 3G growth and usage in 30 countries…
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May 2012
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May 30th
How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet →
This is the story of a wonderful idea. Something that had never been done before, a moment of change that shaped the Internet we know today. This is the story of Flickr. And how Yahoo bought it and murdered it and screwed itself out of relevance along the way.
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April 2012
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“Networks are fundamentally changing the landscape that designers design in, so...”
– Say that three times fast…  via: Claro Partners: Transforming Understanding into Value
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American Express « Ephemeral New York →
Founded in 1850 as just a shipping company, American Express had its headquarters as well as a warehouse with stables (for the horses that actually lugged the packages around, of course) on lower Hudson Street in the late 19th century.
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“The new breed of “user experience” designers - part sketch artist,...”
– In Silicon Valley, designers emerge as rock stars
Apr 14th
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The Dangers of the Minimal Viable Product  →
Think beyond the product to the full offering and business model. Competitive advantage comes from innovative ways of creating, capturing, and delivering value. Success requires fine-tuning more than features and functions.Great advice… This is the difference between Interaction Design and Product Design
Apr 13th
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Beer makes men smarter: study →
ethnicomm: Beer makes men smarter. So say researchers at the University of Illinois in Chicago. They found that men with a couple beers under their belts were actually better at solving brain-teasers than their sober counterparts. I knew it!
Apr 12th
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“FIGHT THROUGH WRITER’S BLOCK The blank white page. El Diablo Blanco. El Pollo...”
– - The Ulitmate Guide to Writing Better Than You Normally Do from McSweeney’s Internet Tendency  Love the whole article, but particularly the part about “el blanco diablo” - the blank page.  (via shoutsandmumbles)
Apr 12th
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Why is making healthcare easy so hard? :: →
jayparkinsonmd: Well, the simple answer is there are too many players and partnerships between them are next to impossible to broker. In order to fix the healthcare experience we all hate, the partners must have a singular vision for a better experience, and then broker the deal so we all benefit. There are a… He makes a great point. Employers need to step up… It’s (mostly)...
Apr 2nd
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March 2012
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“Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing...”
– Herbert Simon 
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Poor service design... Multiple counts.
Amtrak Conductor: Tickets please.
Me: Here you are.
Amtrak Conductor: You didn't sign it.
Me: Oh, sorry. That must be frustrating.
Amtrak Conductor: It is.
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“I will engage only in design activities that improve life, both environmental...”
– Excerpt from The Designer’s Handshake - Emily Pilloton
Mar 22nd
Q: Are your user journeys as awesome as 'The... →
A: No they are not. We could learn a lot from his creative process… via: Thrasher Mag
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More on the value #Ethnography in UX →
an ethnographer’s take on how usability tests and focus groups may not be of *any* benefit if the cultural context has been completely misunderstood. “While usability tests and focus groups are useful for specific phases of app development, they aren’t as useful for understanding cultural frameworks and practices because by the time an app is being tested, it already has accumulated so many...
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“Stop trying to get your clients to “understand design” and instead show them...”
– Quote from Mike Monteiro’s new book “Design is a Job” (via @smcrowe)
Mar 8th
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