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pestle tool
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I love the larger-than-life googlemaps pointer :-)
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I just love this :-)
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and again... the experience is the product
April 2008 Archives
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Hal's cooking again and I forgot to weigh him recently...
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"how to build brands through utility, community and authenticity" nicely put :-)
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more good stuff from peterme
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Loving OpenID but wishing for something a bit more enterprisey with added security
Hey, Jed's on TV :-)
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fabulous typographic experiments. Jonathon is an art student in Ontario
Well, the afternoon was pretty good too, but with a dead powerbook battery and no charger I ended up sending commentary via Twitter.
13:00 -- Lunch
One design direction will do -- AMEN
12:38 -- Larissa Meek (AgencyNet) Getting your designs approved: 12 Simple Rules
watching a demo of an Aston Martin website and I hate it! Hard to beleive but this agency team is making exactly the same mistakes the boo.com crew. They are trying to replicate a sensual experience using tech and it just doesn't work :-(
... and at this point, Dug's battery expired and he switched to iphone mode. I can't believe I forgot the bloody charger this morning!
Casino is a "feedback engine" (he's describing what the adiction thing call "near-win experiences" ie gamblers never loose, they just almost win) Vegas master of feedback...
Creating delightful experiences: Innocent's "stop looking at my bottom", fun, easter eggs (find it and share)
Andy just said "social object"
11:36 -- Andy Budd is doing great things showing examples of great experience curves
[ interview break ]
I just interviewed Steve Pearce, I wanted to ask him the agency questions I posted earlier. How does Poke get clients to focus on the bottom of the iceberg after the pitch was won on the basis of the shiny top of the iceberg.
He reckons Poke has solved this by saying "no", by never going to the client with a ready-made solution. In ongoing work, he always keeps referring to interaction, thinking about the backend and appserver looking for hooks into the experience. He quotes the example of the Topshop re-skin where his team looked carefully at the appserver and found a number of services that had been disabled, never implemented or under-used. As a result, he was able to use an up-sell module to create a dynamic user-ratings system.
The second question is the Hugh McLeod question about agencies being asked help clients redefine their business and how agencies are going to fit into this new world. Steve's take on this was
that agencies live the client's product (use Windows machines to sell Microsoft products) and build deep relationships with clients such that the feedback mechanism from agency to client can be about a lot more that just the current project.
Finally, Steve reckons
that Poke is based on values and that if those are always kept at the core of all projects, the thinking about the project (and by extension the client's business) will naturally flow back to the client.
11:25 -- Andy Budd (Clearleft) is doing "Designing the User Experience Curve"
(Break: back at 11:20)
10:42 -- Andy Clarke of Stuff & Nonsense & Steve Pearce are taking questions
Well, I came to see Steve Pearce from Poke and managed to catch the last five minutes of his chat.
He did an interesting presentation on the process of creating user experiences. He uses a great iceberg metaphor (see others on this) to describe the process.
It's an interesting parallel to Jesse James Garett's "Elements" in that in the iceberg metaphor you dive under the surface to the bottom of the experience and then float up to the top will in JJG land you float up from abstract to concrete via the stages of strategy, scope, structure, skeleton and surface :-)
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thankyou @scobleizer
A little confused by the implementations of permissions in MT41 -- Are these 'permission tokens', fragments of data that exist independently of the user-object? I mean I get it that:
user + blog + role = permission
but how does this interface (or datastructure?) express nested permissions? Or in other words, shouldn't the "moderator" role for user = James be superceded by his "administrator" role?
New stuff from 6A is usually rock solid so I'm guessing there's a valid reason for the above...
Have started using the old ipod again (8gig just doesn't do it) and bumped into this:
Architects may come and
Architects may go and ...
... When I run dry
I stop a while and think of you
Simon & Garfunkel signing about Frank Lloyd Wright. Wonderful:-)
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oh my yes, oh yes oh yes :-)
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Clementine, y'a des trucs que tu comprend pas et des trucs que tu découvre mais ce qu'il raconte le monsieur c'est très beau et je pense à toi en le lisant. Dire que aura tes six ans dans quelque semaines :-)
recently, on my tweet feed:
If you need to reach me today, d me
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yes, it's yet another wiki host. This one kudosed by the 6a design guy...
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blogger's code of ethics
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I love it that there are folk out there doing this stuff:-)
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interesting software that starbucks uses to harvest customer and employee opinion, discussion and advice
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green stuff (including solar panel ipod/iphone charger which could come in handy)
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Solar Technology Freeloader
Wow, you know, I don't normally read Bob Lutz's stuff over at the GM FastLane Blog which is odd because I quote the blog to clients all the time. Just took a peek today and saw this:
... In the end, it cost us much more than that; it cost us our reputation for technology leadership and innovation.We made that mistake once. We won’t make it again. I think the whole company has learned when you step out and do bold things, you win and when you're cautious and let other people do the bold things, you lose.
Many great ideas die every day because we value the safety of the tried-and-true over the risk that true innovation requires. This is not going to be the case with Volt; we are going for the brass ring.
Great stuff, a senior VP publicly admitting he fucked up (and promising not to trip over the same log twice).
So this volt thing seems pretty cool. It's a different strategy than the Tesla plan. The board at Tesla Motors are banking on a high-performance car (the 2008 Tesla Roadster) to get the ev ball rolling and they plan to roll out an inexpensive family saloon after that.
Also, the Volt is an E-REV so still factoring in the petrol pump...
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On Thursday night, employees and alumni of Lord, Geller, Federico, Einstein will meet at Mr. O's to reminisce about the advertising agency that made little Charlie Chaplin a symbol for enormous I.B.M. Everyone who worked at Lord, Geller a year ago is invi
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the 'audiences' link from Valerie
So Billy got tickets to the Timeout mayoral hustings at the UCL union tonight. It was reasonably interesting with Ken coming off quite easily the meatiest, most satisfying proposition. Spoke to Brian Paddick without knowing who he was (note to Brian and any other candidate who isn't the front-runner: start all chats with the electorate with "Hi I'm Brian Paddick and I'm running for mayor")
The floppy blond thing from Henley couldn't make it but he had an army of supporters there to explain why so that's alright then...
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I'm so going to this :-) And check out that beautiful use of Times Roman
