Noise Between StationsBusiness, Design, and the Internet. Since 1999.Creative Commons: Good for Nature- (Found June 24, 2008 ) At Overlap 08 this past weekend we talked a lot about sustainability in all its forms, including sustaining nature. This was on my mind this morning as I cycled over the Brooklyn Bridge and saw a small video crew capturing some footage of the bridge. Surely, I thought, there's so ...http://noisebetweenstations.com/personal/weblogs/?p=2207 RCA + Imperial College = Design London !- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Design London looks like a very cool, London version of a D School -- mixing students from design, engineering, and business students -- with an incubator thrown in for good measure.http://noisebetweenstations.com/personal/weblogs/?p=2197 Who Needs Reliability When Your Consumers are Addicted- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Lately Twitter's database crashed. They occasionally have to turn off features for technical reasons. Sometimes they're down and they don't even know why (having been a sys admin I feel their pain). It seems they've picked a service with a a hard technical problem: scaling a web messaging system. ...http://noisebetweenstations.com/personal/weblogs/?p=2199 Disruption From the Bottom Up: Flip- (Found June 24, 2008 ) I think it's fair to say the $100 Flip video camera is a disruptive play. I'm not too surprised it didn't come from Canon or Sony, but instead from a company who established their capabilities by building even cheaper cameras... Pure Digital started out, in 2002, making a digital version ...http://noisebetweenstations.com/personal/weblogs/?p=2200 HBR Finally Runs Their Design Thinking Article- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Those of us following the dissemination of the design thinking meme were wondering if and when the Harvard Business Review would jump on board, and the waiting is over. In the June 2008 issue there's an overview article courtesy of IDEO's Tim Brown, a logical choice. He makes some ...http://noisebetweenstations.com/personal/weblogs/?p=2201 Dan Hill on the Monocle Site Design- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Monocle, as a business, a magazine, and a website, is an interesting story. I'm not sure how well the business fares, but it's been around long enough and the content is growing in quantity and richness that it seems the affairs are in order. Dan Hill recently posted about his work ...http://noisebetweenstations.com/personal/weblogs/?p=2203 Design Thinking to Finance Skyscapers- (Found June 24, 2008 ) In her comment to my post on the recent HBR article on design thinking, my friend HK writes, "What the article is missing is some concrete examples -- what do designers do at strategic phases of projects, when the problems theyre solving arent explicit design problems" She goes on to ...http://noisebetweenstations.com/personal/weblogs/?p=2204 Google Labs Embedded in Gmail- (Found June 24, 2008 ) I think a lot about how organizations and their products evolve quickly rather than remain static, and Google Labs are a prime example of that. By developing many alpha products, releasing several public betas, and getting live feedback they use the market to tell them what works. For many companies ...http://noisebetweenstations.com/personal/weblogs/?p=2205 Bruce Hannah on Prototyping- (Found June 24, 2008 ) I'm back from Overlap 08 which is becoming my reliable annual inspiration for all things professional. It will surely fuel more thoughts here, but I wanted to capture one thing Deb Johnson said that Bruce Hannah taught her in design school: Mock it up before you fuck it up. The profanity I ...http://noisebetweenstations.com/personal/weblogs/?p=2206 Pundits and the Need for Certainty- (Found June 24, 2008 ) The world is getting to be a whole lot more complex, and we seem to be reacting with increasing punditry, from cable news hosts to conference speakers (there are currently 14810 slideshows on Slideshare explaining the future of something or other). And of course I'm guilty of this as the ...http://noisebetweenstations.com/personal/weblogs/?p=2196 |