January 2012
4 posts
Watch2012 trends from Frog Design.
December 2011
5 posts
Video is lovely. But I'm not sure WTF to do with... →
WatchRe-purposing CAPTCHA so each human-typed response helps digitize books. Amazing. Thanks to Dan for sharing.
Agency of the year revealed ... drum roll please... →
Social shopping done right. Great idea from... →
Thanks to Leo for sending my way.
November 2011
68 posts
The rapp board is kinda awesome →
HT Nat. Thanks.
Lovely production values on these Prudential... →
Thanks to Owen for sharing. Bring Your Challenges. I love it.
Progressive's Messenger meets & gives a hand to... →
Some lovely QR codes (they don't have to be ugly;... →
“People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint”
– Steve Jobs
A wonderful library of UI transitions. →
Thank you to Carl for sending my way.
QRadio by Sweza – interactive street art →
Kind of awesome. Thanks to Jarrod for sharing.
Real world Google Analytics →
Pretty cool. Thanks to Andy for sharing.
“Basically, it’s a measurement tool which records the movement of people via their smartphone’s wifi signals – which means they can be recognized as a repeat store visitor (in the real world, local sense). Kinda like real world analytics (not surprising when you consider the developers are the people who developed Google...
I Love This: Help Remedies →
http://www.helpineedhelp.com/#/
A nice service design reference →
INTIMATE marketing. I don't think I want to be... →
Forget Lovemarks, Now We’ve Got ‘Kama Sutra Marketing’
“Will we someday pay NOT to have our names included on social networks, just as...”
– @ogilvydigital
Great question.
The lost Steve Jobs interview: Design is keeping... →
I find it funny that Steve Jobs criticizes Bill Gates for not inventing anything. What did Steve Jobs “invent”? Consider that the personal computer and mouse, and GUI were all being worked on by the big brains at Xerox Park, long before Jobs toured the facility and famously got his stroke of genius that lead to the Macintosh. Siri is military grade tech re-purposed. Jobs didn’t...
“Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact, and that is,...”
– Steve Jobs
Finding high ground as Big Data swells →
What I find particularly troublesome about this, is the fact that “shadow data” is outpacing UGC. Goodness.
“Magic is just science we don’t understand yet”
– Arthur C. Clarke
Awww. →
Californian jeweler Robbins Brothers is offering people the chance to ’Share The Love‘ on a Jumbotron through a new Facebook application.
How to think and communicate visually →
My friend David shares a little bit of his process.
How to make the internet squeal like a pig... →
Must Read. I can only think of a single company that does all of this well.
The rise of the digital omnivore (terrible report... →
Bank of America & Malcolm Gladwell join forces for... →
Very interesting.
Renault: Ange & Demon. A truly terrible spot. →
Digital convergence: where content and advertising... →
The role of the TV ad in today's engagement-driven... →
(cc @scottweisbrod)
Zack de la Rocha Pens Words of Inspiration For...
This poem is dedicated to the Occupy movement whose courage is changing the world. Stay Strong. We are winning.
The beginning spills through city veins Into the arteries And under powers poison clouds We move like the shadows Through the alley ways Through nightmares bought and sold as dreams Through barren factories Through boarded schools Through rotting fields Through the burning...
8 simple designs we couldn't live without →
We take this stuff for granted. Good find. Thanks to Neil for sending my way.
“Life has many ways of testing a person’s will,either by having nothing happen at...”
– Paulo Coelho
60 examples of responsive design →
Good stuff. And some nice sites in here.
The best acknowledgement of a kick ass creative... →
In Prague subways, virtual grocery stores enable shopping by phone
Through a partnership between P&G and Mall.cz, Prague’s four busiest subway stations now include virtual grocery stores that offer shopping by phone for delivery at home.
Testing to see if my giant ball of social media...
Okay, I am REALLY sorry. I authorized Facebook to pull in Tumblr posts, without thinking about the fact that Twitter is also authorized to post to Facebook. Long story short, I’ve somehow created an infinite loop of social media fuckery this morning, and clogged everyone’s feeds. Hoping that it’s fixed now. Apologies.
I wonder if the folks AT Blackberry even believe... →
I could NOT, NOT, NOT agree more with this assessment.
JC Penny gets it. "Santa Tags". I love this. →
c.f., http://www.psfk.com/2011/11/qr-codes-are-misunderstood-and-underused-headlines.html
Funny that these both showed up in my stream together.