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dailybunch: Infographic: Is Your State’s Highest-Paid Employee...

Thu, 09 May 2013 20:04:05 -0700

Infographic: Is Your State’s Highest-Paid Employee A Coach? (Probably)

When I was at R/GA, the Nike team talked a lot about making the...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 08:23:36 -0700

When I was at R/GA, the Nike team talked a lot about making the Nike ID design process as quick and error free as possible. There are a lot of steps and small elements that make up the custom designed shoes; a customer might overlook a step.

Pre-filling the design based on an Instagram photo is, well, genius.

nevver: The Key to Failure

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 10:48:48 -0700

nevver:

The Key to Failure

“Three Valleys”, by Alec Soth and Brad Zellar

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:18:30 -0700

“Three Valleys”, by Alec Soth and Brad Zellar

"Only chance can bring together new combinations in a way that is revolutionary. No one ever..."

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 12:17:28 -0700

“Only chance can bring together new combinations in a way that is revolutionary. No one ever discovered anything really important intentionally.”

- Emmet Gowin (via mysteriesmanners)

“Google...

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 14:16:12 -0700

“Google Graveyard”

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/map_of_the_week/2013/03/google_reader_joins_graveyard_of_dead_google_products.html

parislemon: John Herrman of BuzzFeed: According to data from...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 22:32:55 -0700

parislemon:

John Herrman of BuzzFeed:

According to data from the BuzzFeed Network, a set of tracked partner sites that collectively have over 300 million users, Google Reader is still a significant source of traffic for news — and a much larger one than Google+. The above chart, created by BuzzFeed’s data team, represents data collected from August 2012 to today.

Yikes. Did Google just shut down the wrong product?

Artefact: To Work or Not to Work... From Home

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:33:28 -0800

Artefact: To Work or Not to Work... From Home:

One of the smarter, level-headed responses to the recent Yahoo! “no more working from home” edict comes from Artefact. A few principles they perceive on working remotely:

WFH Fails When Collaboration Is Key
WFH Fails When Trust Is Scarce
WFH Fails When Workers Don’t Really Know Each Other (related to lack of trust)
WFH Works When Tools Support It (we’re lucky in this at Logitech)
WFH Works When the Physical Environment Sucks

"Smarties hailing from different backgrounds (and/or with different ways of thinking) working..."

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:50:00 -0800

“Smarties hailing from different backgrounds (and/or with different ways of thinking) working together is much more effective than separated, homogenous groups of smarties in almost every way. After all, there are many different kinds of smart and mixing them up results in amazing things. You’ve probably read how small, cross-functional teams are much more effective than your typical silo-ed team approach. I believe that to be true. But there is more to it than that. Cross-function is one part, but it’s also important to create diversity within a particular function. Not all designers are alike, not all engineers think the same way, etc. When you find a group of smart people that share a vision, but offer up different ideas on how to get there, that’s when the magic really happens. I’m calling this “Collaborative Diversity” and I think it’s a great way to work.”

- Collaborative Diversity | D. Keith Robinson

"It’s complex, it’s subtle, it defies explanation but it’s not magic. It’s a process that requires a..."

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:19:43 -0800

“It’s complex, it’s subtle, it defies explanation but it’s not magic. It’s a process that requires a degree of faith and fortitude. It’s collecting but ignoring data and trusting judgement when data tells you to move in a different direction. It’s a lot of willful rejection of conventional wisdom. It’s asymmetric approaches to competition. It’s art as much as science. And most of all, it’s a lot of mind-numbing polishing while trusting that only by doing great work is survival even possible.”

- Why doesn’t anybody copy Apple? | asymco

Student concept for zero-waste product packaging. Love this one...

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:22:49 -0800

Student concept for zero-waste product packaging. Love this one for Tide detergent. All the concepts are prototyped with real materials.

More at http://disappearingpackage.com/

nevver: Andy Warhol

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:43:05 -0800

nevver:

Andy Warhol

I dig @JamesVictore Q&A Tuesday videos.

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:33:54 -0800

I dig @JamesVictore Q&A Tuesday videos.

jffcrmr: Johnny Cash immortalized on new US Postal Service...

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:33:15 -0800

jffcrmr:

Johnny Cash immortalized on new US Postal Service stamp

Perfect.

OXO, Crooks and Robbers...?

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:51:29 -0800

OXO, Crooks and Robbers...?:

Unfairly attacked by a competitor? Here’s the textbook on how to respond. OXO vs Quirky.

"For a coherent strategy to work, then, the organization executing it must be measured as a whole,..."

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:55:14 -0800

“For a coherent strategy to work, then, the organization executing it must be measured as a whole, rather than as parts. In other words, if a company is to have a single strategy, it must be driven by a single P&L.”

- One Strategy, One P&L | Rampant Innovation

Organizational design has a direct and significant impact on customer experience. How many companies’ holistic experience is hamstrung by internal competition and slloed thinking? Contradictory business unit incentives and goals make a unified and self-reinforcing corporate strategy nearly impossible.

joshrlangleydesign: This is wise advice indeed. Quote from Ross...

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 05:00:25 -0800

joshrlangleydesign:

This is wise advice indeed. Quote from Ross F. George, type designer and inventor of Speedball pens (1927)

Tenth Grade Tech Trends

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:47:59 -0800

Tenth Grade Tech Trends:

Josh Miller at Branch talks to his 15-year-old sister about how she and her friends use various social services like Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, etc.

"If all you do is repeat what you know works, there is absolutely no space for innovation. Innovation..."

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:36:12 -0800

“If all you do is repeat what you know works, there is absolutely no space for innovation. Innovation is by definition the antithesis of best practices.”

- Christian Haas

via: ‘Big Data’ Needs Intuition, Says Goodby ECD Christian Haas
(via paulisakson)

"there are now four technology companies that truly matter to people: Apple, Amazon, Facebook and..."

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 14:55:43 -0800

“there are now four technology companies that truly matter to people: Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google. None of them are at CES.”

- Why We’re Not At The Biggest Tech Show In The World