Archive for February, 2009

Leveraging unexpected uses

Nice TED talk by Evan Williams (co-founder of Twitter) revealing that many of the ideas driving Twitter’s explosive growth came from unexpected uses, i.e. were invented by the users themselves or by people working on side projects. Twitter has won a small army of lifecasting converts, with its bite-sized notes and instant-gratification communication. Co-founder Evan [...]

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Collaboration is beautiful

This is bringing together two of my favourite themes: Collaboration is beautiful, enjoy (via W2E):

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Shine on you crazy diagram – part 3

It’s funny and instructive, my little series on visualizations that are unusual, doing it plain wrong or are at least somehow awkward (see part 1 and part 2 for more goodies). Via Boing Boing, Neatorama, Buzzfeed, I am Jeriko and Polkarobot (internet memes they travel fast and far …) the Heavy Metal Band Names Flowchart: [...]

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Blogging the Share Economy @ Next ’09

… is something that belongs both here into Business Model Innovation and Design (hey, this blog is about new economic models and all …) and into the frogpond blog (no need to argue about the necessity of sharing to make collaboration work, huh?). Well, the organizers want to know of only one blog where one [...]

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Creativity galore – design, discovery and humor

While TED was going on in California, some good videos from past years are getting published, like this one: Great design is a never-ending journey of discovery — for which it helps to pack a healthy sense of humor. Sociologist and surfer-turned-designer David Carson walks through a gorgeous (and often quite funny) slide deck of [...]

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Flexible Architektur, Usability und Wikis …

Besser spät als nie – die Folien meiner Session “Flexible Architektur, Usability und Wikis” vom DesignCampCologne, bei frogpond habe ich die Session bereits als Video verlinkt. View more presentations from mk.frogpond. (tags: designthinking usability)

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