Yearly Archives: 2006
Connect the dots business plan
Greg Yardley makes an interesting observation about the Y Combinator-funded start-up, Wufoo, an online form creator that makes creating a form “easy and painless”:
“I see Wufoo as part of a broader trend – the gradual outsourcing of all routine development and administration to more efficient plug-together-and-play solutions. In a year or two, all the little [...]
IDeSiGN – Seven Ways of Design Thinking
“Design thinking is what people do when they pursue their goals. Everyone focuses their thinking in order to satisfy wants and needs regarding a particular situation. They recognize and define information relevant to their purpose, consider alternatives, decide what to do, do it, determine if they are satisfied with the results, and if not, revise [...]
Sexy schemas?!
Jeremy Zawodny decided to “annotate” Tom Coates’ recent Future of Web Apps presentation. Not sure the annotations really add much value, in fact, one seems particularly backwards:
Start designing with data, not pages
Figure out what data is important, how it will be stored, represented, and transferred. Think about the generic services that one can build on [...]
The MAYA Design Experience
MAYA Design knows immersive design. This time, they collaborated with the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design on a long-distance academic project to design a national park.
“In keeping with the theme of the course, the students unveiled their final recommendations by staging an immersive experience. They filled a large, round room with process sketches, [...]
A few things
A few books to read / Bill de hÓra put together an interesting list of books with one in particular standing out, “The Power of Events: [long title truncated].” The smashLab folks have a new weblog and in the Reconsidering Design article the author mentions the book “All Access, The Making of Thirty Extraordinary Graphic [...]
Remembering how to think