Why aren't all 'objects' interfaces to other 'objects'?

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

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...
Social Media (Retailing) = Committing Social Suicide

Social Media (Retailing) = Committing Social Suicide

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 campaign that gets people together to 'socialize' via apps on...
Concepting Flik – Designing a product for venture funding

Concepting Flik – Designing a product for venture funding

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 market space...
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From the archive: Personal Inflight Entertainment creates ‘Personal Space’

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 Sydney, Australia. I found the image (below) and pulled it from the archive so I could show it as an example...

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

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

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 – that will be $7.99, or for the entire day $19.99, and for a five-day week set aside $70.00. Once the Web App is on your desktop...

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

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 and distribution. 5. Cross Media Platform Distribution is getting closer to reality with Smart Phones and Tablet Computing. banking-in-the-cloud Trends that I’m following...

Free your ideas: the power of Open Source Concepting

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 chest because it will make more money if we keep it a secret. Well, instead of filing the idea next to...

By Subscription… Models

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) to my local pizza bar, and get a discounted price if I guarantee ’4, 6, or...

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

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 the Apps that the Tablet comes with, which makes the device integrate into everyday life – therefore: The Tablet +...

What’s your concept?

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 is impossible. Inevitably, my thinking and Concepting is typically archived on a hard-drive or stored...
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