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Is the iPad a big iPod or is it the new Newton?

Is the iPad a big iPod or is it the new Newton?

By David Terrar on February 1, 2010

The first thing I’ve got to say is the title of this post was supplied in a tweet from Alan Patrick (@freecloud), but it perfectly encapsulates the controversy going on in the geek world around the new Apple tablet device announced on Wednesday.  Is it going to be as successful and “game changing” like the […]

Posted in Design, Product reviews | Tagged Apple, appstore, convergence, darwin, Design, divergence, ebook, epub, ibook, ipad, iphone, iPod, mac, newton, productivity, tablet | 2 Responses

Successful presentations? – go back to basics

Successful presentations? – go back to basics

By David Terrar on January 29, 2010

Some of us of a certain age come from a time when presentations weren’t created directly on the PC (or Mac) with PowerPoint (or Keynote), or with cool new online tools like Prezi.  Back then before laptop PCs and low cost flash drives, if there was plenty of money in the marketing budget, and the […]

Posted in Marketing | Tagged Design, keynote, marketing, powerpoint, presentations, Prezi, productivity, sales | 1 Response

Ideas as the Basis for Social Networks

By Hutch Carpenter on January 13, 2010

Brian Solis, leading thinker in the integration of social media and PR, recently spoke on an intriguing concept: ideas connect us more than relationships. The premise of his argument is that ideas are what elicit passion in people. They animate us, and if we find someone with a similar interest in a given idea, we […]

Posted in General | Tagged Design, social networks, social objects | 1 Response

Look Who’s Talking: ASUS, the Designer Brand

Look Who’s Talking: ASUS, the Designer Brand

By Zoli Erdos on January 5, 2010

Brand vs. Quality. Which Would You Pay For? – I asked recently, making the case that “trusted old brands” like HP are producing inferior quality, while formerly “no-name cheapo” component maker ASUS is becoming a household name.  They are basically doing what Honda, Toyota (and now the Koreans)  did to the car business. Sure, ASUS […]

Posted in Design, Marketing | Tagged Apple, asus, computers, Design, hp, laptops, netbooks, quality

Your Retweet Verified

Your Retweet Verified

By Krishnan Subramanian on October 19, 2009

We all are aware of the Retweet button that is supposed to show up on Twitter soon. Doug Bowman, ex-Google lead designer and now working at Twitter, gave some insight into Twitter’s plans on this. He was answering questions at the GigaOm Bunker Series and one of the questioner asked about the delay in putting […]

Posted in Design | Tagged Design, retweet, twitter, verified tweet | 2 Responses

Why a Business Process Modeling (BPM) Approach to SOA Usually Fails

Why a Business Process Modeling (BPM) Approach to SOA Usually Fails

By Guest Authors on September 3, 2009

I was having a Twitter conversation with Brenda Michelson (@bmichelson) and Todd Biske (@toddbiske) about the tight coupling in peoples minds between BPM and SOA, and why I find that when people take a BPM centric approach to SOA, it usually ends up not delivering the goods.  So today’s post is about how to properly […]

Posted in Design, Enterprise | Tagged bpm, business process modeling, data model, Design, michaud, modeling, Service Oriented Architecture, soa | 3 Responses

Is There a Sweet-Spot For Features?

Is There a Sweet-Spot For Features?

By Ben Kepes on April 22, 2009

I found this graph on the discontinued Creating Passionate Users blog; It’s a somewhat tongue in cheek diagram but completely relevant for my specific area of interest, SaaS accounting applications. At the recent Web 2.0 Expo I spent a really enjoyable hour or so discussing usability design and specifically how it relates to an increase […]

Posted in Design | Tagged Design, feature bloat, functionality, saas, usability | 3 Responses

I’ve Seen The Future and It’s Flex

I’ve Seen The Future and It’s Flex

By Ben Kepes on February 11, 2009

Warning – Some expletives follow – NSFW The inimitable Stephan Fry wrote on the subject of music in his autobiography. He says it so much better than me so I’ll quote his words here; Music is everything and nothing. It is useless and no limit can be set on its use. Music takes me to […]

Posted in Design | Tagged adobe, Design, equator, esria, flex, flexitime, muttonbirds, stephen fry, webdesign | 4 Responses

Don’t Bury Desktops Just Yet

Don’t Bury Desktops Just Yet

By Zoli Erdos on January 7, 2009

As laptops dominate, desktop PCs face obsolescence – reports Reuters: The age of the desktop PC appears to be over as its more portable cousin, the laptop, surges ahead with consumers clamoring for light-weight computers in funky designs for use at home, in cafes and on the train to work. Not a single desktop model […]

Posted in Design | Tagged computers, Design, desktop, desktop computers, device-independent computing, ergonomics, laptop, mobility, netbook, notebook, pc market, web applications | 1 Response

What Nokia? Kim Basinger's Lifeline would be an iPhone Today.

What Nokia? Kim Basinger's Lifeline would be an iPhone Today.

By Zoli Erdos on December 1, 2008

The 2004 thriller Cellular features three stars: Kim Basinger, Chris Evans, and a Nokia 6660 video-phone. The kidnapped school-teacher played by Kim Basinger pieces together a broken phone and reaches a random dude, Ryan (Chris Evans) on cell-phone – this call literally becomes her lifeline. Ryan effortlessly uses his Nokia miracle-phone in the middle of […]

Posted in Design | Tagged Blackberry, cellular, competition, Design, innovation, iphone, mobile phones, mobility, nokia, touch-screen | 1 Response

SaaS Vendors – Know Thy Customer

By Ben Kepes on November 14, 2008

In a past life I consulted as a design strategist. For those of you who are unaware of what a design strategist actually does, they help businesses remove themselves from their day-to-day world and encourage them to take a future view of their business – using Design (capitalization intentional – design in the wider sense […]

Posted in Design | Tagged Design, personas

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