Tag Archives: Strategy

I heart frameworks!

 

When we tackle a new design challenge, we are constantly faced with making sense of new domains, complex information, and huge data sets – in a very short amount of time. Imagine trying to understand how to help diabetes patients … Continue reading →

 

Trends Analysis: Maximizing Utility and Minimizing B.S.

 

“Trends analysis is all flash and no substance.” This is a fairly common comment I’ve heard from colleagues and acquaintances regarding the practice of observing trends in the world around us. Honestly, I can’t fault this sentiment.   There are … Continue reading →

 

The Trend Toward Less

 

A couple of months ago I bought a Flip Mino HD camcorder. While most camcorders are proud of their exhaustive feature list, the Flip takes the opposite approach. Here’s what David Pogue had to say about the original Flip in … Continue reading →

 

Beyond Blue Links

 

Can you believe it’s been 10 years since we’ve been ‘Googling’? And longer that we’ve been using other, basically identical, search engines. For the most part these search engines have done just what we expect them to do… providing us … Continue reading →

 

A Data Junkie’s Thoughts on How to Use Data Strategically

 

The heating up of competitive pressures in the technology markets requires that corporations and product groups make increasingly well informed, data-grounded decisions. As product cycles get compressed, the need for agility undermines some of the traditional data-collection methods. One of … Continue reading →

 

Dear Netflix,

 

Recently at Mix, I ran into a couple of UI folks from Netflix. We got into a over dinner conversation where we talked about some of the UI issues with their service. They asked at the end of dinner if … Continue reading →