I’ve been on paternity leave for a few months now and have finally found the time to re-read, dissect and compare some of the books on networks, collaboration, participation and crowdsourcing that I’ve been reading these past five years. Here’s my reading list for those who want to understand Enterprise 2.0, its foundations and drivers: [...]
Hva er designernes utfordring/rolle i fremtiden? På Designdagens 15×15-sesjon delte jeg (og 14 andre norske designere) den største utfordringen som venter oss som utøvere og bransje. Hva er den? Deltakelse. Nå som det er praktisk mulig å involvere brukere, kunder, borgere, naboer, meningsfeller og -motstandere i vårt arbeid, hvordan attnytter vi innspill og deltakelse? Hvordan [...]
When Jørgen and I were working on Geoloq.us in 2005, we prototyped the use of EAN barcodes, Semacodes, Shotcodes and QR-codes for marking locations and embedding messages. At the time, cameraphones were rare and cheap mobile data access unheard of, so we decided against using 2D barcodes in our app. Five years later cameras and [...]
When the purpose and method of a product is hard to explain, we ask “What is this for? Why does it exist?” What is the purpose of Buzz? Perhaps Hank Williams said it best: to make Google look social. Buzz was shaped by many forces. Were it a car, we might compare it to an [...]
I came across the list below some time ago. It’s from a Gartner presentation by Ray Valdes on the business value of user experience. Ironically, the slide deck was in desperate need of graphic design love. Anyway, the list chronicles an apparent evolution of design approaches over the last decade or so. Here goes: Designer-driven: [...]
Tammy’s talk starts at 3:15. The player controls are awful, but the talk is excellent.
Having recently received my TypeKit invite, I went ahead and purchased the USD 25 Personal plan and font-ified my blog. TypeKit takes a very interesting approach to web fonts: you add a bit of JavaScript to your <head> tag and then manage which fonts you want to use where in the TypeKit editor. Great fonts [...]
Shaun Inman created Mint years before we had GetSatisfaction. He likely got tired of answering the same questions over and over again, and added a bit of instruction to his home-grown forum (below). Forums don’t scale well Frankly, if you use a plain-vanilla forum for customer support, you’re sabotaging yourself. When a forum has thousands [...]
I come across a lot of interesting links. So many, in fact, that I need to spend my attention wisely. I asked around on Twitter, where Dave Malouf suggested using Instapaper and Bjørn Wang pointed out that your Twitterstream isn’t the only place we need to parse links. Make a feed with ReadTwit After posting part [...]
One of the great things about Twitter is the daily dose of interesting links that my 500 contacts provide me with. I’ve grown fond of rewinding through my stream, reading my friends’ messages and favoriting links that look good. As I’ve pointed out previously, you can parse a lot of links if you have a [...]
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