Concepts | creating.concepts

Why aren’t all ‘objects’ interfaces to other ‘objects’?

by Justin Wilden on Jan 22, 2010 • No Comments

Trefis.com provides an analytical share price forecasting application. Their unique interface model, resembling a mind map, provides a user with a ‘glimpse’ into how a share price is constructed...

Blindingly Obvious / Socialization

Social Media (Retailing) = Committing Social Suicide

by Justin Wilden on Jan 19, 2010 • No Comments

Launching into Social Media, in the form of Social Retailing, does not mean 'must-having' a FB page or Tweeting out continuous coupons and passcodes. The complexities associated with conducting a social media...

Concepting

Concepting Flik – Designing a product for venture funding

by Justin Wilden on Jun 10, 2009 • 1 Comment

Flik was a nameless project at the start, and it was touted as a broadband browser for sharing large video files. This was 2004. File-sharing (peer-to-peer) was a relatively new...

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Compelling Concepts / Concepting

From the archive: Personal Inflight Entertainment creates ‘Personal Space’

by Justin Wilden on Feb 15, 2011 • No Comments

In 2001 I designed a customer scenario for air travel that focused on the concept of creating a ‘personal space’ for travellers. It was developed while I was the Creative Director of Different in...

Uncategorized

The Startup Bus: a SXSW tale of two cities and a bus…

by Justin Wilden on Feb 11, 2011 • 1 Comment

Business Models / Trends

Would you pay $2 per hour to use Photoshop (or Excel) as a Web App?

by Justin Wilden on Oct 28, 2010 • No Comments

Soon we will be able to rent Web Apps for an hour, a day or a week. Imagine the scenario where you only require Photoshop for an afternoon...

Online Trends / Socialization / Trends

Trending 2010 – The list of things I’m watching this year

by Justin Wilden on Jan 19, 2010 • No Comments

1. Socialisation of the Enterprise (particular ERP) 2. Social CRM – Customer Facing 3, Twitter Business Model Monetisation 4. Obviously – Tablet computing – particularly the development of IP for content viewing...

Open Source Concepting

Free your ideas: the power of Open Source Concepting

by Justin Wilden on Jan 15, 2010 • No Comments

At some stage we all want to ‘redesign’ or ‘innovate’ something to make it better, but we are either too busy (lazy), or maybe, we just want to hold the idea close to our...

Business Models / Trends

By Subscription… Models

by Justin Wilden on Jan 13, 2010 • No Comments

I’m a big believer in subscription-based business models. This could work incredibly well for food businesses that are located in populated urban regions. Check out the local Ice Creamery doing exactly this, in NY: http://www.milkmadeicecream.com/ Why can’t I subscribe (pay in advance)...

Concepting / Trends

Sync’ing your TV experience with the (Apple) Tablet

by Justin Wilden on Jan 13, 2010 • No Comments

I have ‘cut and pasted’ a comment I posted on VentureBeat.com (http://venturebeat.com/2010/01/05/apple-tablet-2/) relating to the Apple Tablet – Article: “Contest: Your predictions for Apple’s tablet“. — Post starts here — It will be about one of...

Concepting / What's your concept?

What’s your concept?

by Justin Wilden on Jun 2, 2009 • No Comments

I create concepts all the time. I don’t just have ideas that are singular and disconnected, I pull together abstract ideas and divergent trends into a marketable concept. Finding the time to make all of these concepts spring to life...