Planning is Guessing

37 Signals has an image of the back of their book online. My favorite line is “Planning is Guessing”

What is the Sound of Urine?

This a cool design solution to a complex problem. When doing analysis of urine samples the difference between the sample and the ideal may be very slim. Many visual representations take to long and are error prone. These people solved this with sound. http://synesign.squarespace.com/blog/2009/3/7/the-sweet-sound-ofurine.html

Where to start if your company has not done any modern marketing?

Seth Godin has created a list of things he thinks a company should do to start in today’s world of marketing. http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/12/is-it-too-late-to-catch-up.html The first 3 mentioned are: get email make a company website with addresses and contact info at a minimum start an email campaign The others on the list are even more interesting.

Design Research by Dan Saffer

Dan Saffer’s article on design research is a great overview for someone trying to understand what design research is all about. He does an excellent job setting the stage of what design research is and why it is important. Hopefully it will excite more people to do design research on a regular basis. http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1389669&rll=1

Visual Search

Have you ever heard of Spezify? It is a search engine that brings all the results back on an infinite plane. All the images of videos, pictures, text and tweets are spread across your desk top and you pan around looking for what you want. Either you have many monitors that you are spread across… Continue reading Visual Search