At last week's Research Now event, there was a fascinating, and sometimes quite touching, presentation from Richard Banks, who is an interaction designer with Microsoft Research. Richard talked about his work looking at producing physical objects that will enable people to reflect and reminisce about digital artifacts in ways analogous to how photo albums and … Continue reading Digital flotsam
On most corporate email systems, not to mention social networks, there's usually the opportunity to upload a photo of yourself. The photos that people put into these things tend to fall into one of four categories: nothing; a face shot; a picture other than just a portrait; and a photo of something else - varying … Continue reading Why you should always upload your photo…
Achievements this week included: - great fun hosting the Research Now event in Shoreditch - positive presentations with a big bank's marketing team - a fun reprise of the analogy story for our own marketers - and the beginnings of a solid framework for the Why App workshops Next week: ping pong
LinkedIn, or Facebook for boring people, is celebrating it's 200 millionth subscriber by informing people who sit in the top 1% of viewed profiles and top 5% of viewed profiles of that exciting news. I fall in the 1%. Which tells me a few things... Firstly, that "top 1%" sounds an awful lot better than … Continue reading One in 2 million: my part in the LinkedIn story
OK, so something of a attention-grabbing headline, but let me explain... I recently saw an interesting post by Geoffrey Moore, he of Crossing the Chasm fame. In it he argued that the consumer IT boom has peaked, and that the next five to seven years will see the most interesting developments happening in the Enterprise … Continue reading Nobody should be building Enterprise solutions these days…
Achievements this week included: - great session with Great North Run organisers - prep for next week's Research Now event - and for a talk on analogy to our marketers - first week of hot desking Next week: research now is now...
There are two unrelated news stories in the UK press this morning that have got me thinking about how it appears we need a really big crisis before change is easy to instigate. On the one hand there is the terrible story of organisational mismanagement in the NHS in the midlands, and on the other … Continue reading Change from crisis
There is a good article that I picked up on over the weekend from November on Forbes looking at the intersection of responsive web design and mobile device apps. The responsive design movement is one which is founded on, in my view, a quite technical foundation: websites should be built in such a way that … Continue reading Contextual design
After a software update this morning, I was presented with the "browser choice" window after I logged into my PC. It struck me that there was very little variation in the way in which the words to describe the options available were chosen by the marketing folk responsible for these tiny adverts. Put simply, there … Continue reading Browser adjectives
Achievements this week included: - successful sessions at The Partners to look at some ways of working together - picking up some interesting work on a luxury product launch happening in the spring - an onsite offsite session with the leadership team to look at strategic trends - potential engagements with a car company... - … Continue reading Weeknote 133: by Royal appointment
