How do you measure the value of design?
It’s a fair question that deserves to be addressed. How should a company measure the value of design? What is the contribution that design makes to the bottom line? This is a difficult problem. Sure there are numerous anecdotes that provide evidence that a focus on design leads to success (Apple, Google, Facebook etc). But, [...]
The Shift Towards One Identity
The web has always been a place of multiple identities. Right now I act differently on my personal blog, this blog, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. I have multiple identities. In the future there will only be one identity.
The best user experiences are invisible
The most seamless user experiences are often the least noticeable. They just work. You google something and it returns the right results. It’s a variation of Clarke’s 3rd law, instead of “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”, it is: “Any sufficiently advanced user experience is invisible to the user.” This is the reason [...]
Surviving Short Term Success with Endurance
I was checking out some pictures on Todd Huffman’s Flickr account and saw he wrote something very quotable beneath one of his pictures. (Todd works with the FabLab for technology in Afghanistan) Afghans are not impressed with might, but they do respect endurance. In light of the current economic crisis it has become increasingly clear [...]
Quick thoughts on Google Profiles.
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock today, you’ve probably heard about Google Profiles. In case you haven’t, these are essentially simple profile pages that will show up in search results when some googles you. As you’d expect from google, the setup process is super simple. Fill out a couple highlights, import your photos from [...]