There’s something interesting about disconnecting natural and intuitive. They really aren’t the same thing, yet I have often assumed they are. If you look up intuitive, you’ll find synonyms: natural, innate. And if you look up natural, you’ll find synonyms of spontaneous, unaffected, genuine, unmannered. So far so good. But if you delve a little deeper and explore “intuition” [...]
Entries from April 25th, 2008
Fave idea of the week : Apr 25, 08
April 25th, 2008 · No Comments · User experience, creative projects, fave ideas, sketchbook
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Fave idea of the week : Apr 18th, 2008
April 18th, 2008 · No Comments · fave ideas, random thoughts
This one got me thinking…at the latest all-hands meeting we were discussing consulting projects, and Trisha said this evocative thing…”How do you want to be incented? Do you want to feed your mind, your heart or your stomach?“Â I changed the words a bit, but the idea that you need to feed all three parts [...]
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Fave idea of the week : April 11th, 2008
April 11th, 2008 · No Comments · fave ideas, slime mold
 During a discussion about companies and how they are structured/how they change/how they move, Rachel reminded me of the all-important feature of slime mold: they know when to signal.   It’s handy advice for many contexts: when you’re driving, if you’re making a role change in a company, when a company decides to change direction, when [...]
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Fave idea of the week : April 4th, 2008
April 4th, 2008 · No Comments · User experience, design, fave ideas, sketchbook
Working in a user experience company, I use a bunch of words to describe user-centered design: user experience, user engagement, interaction design, experience design, there’s a lot of words out there that triangulate the ideas around experience strategy and design, and they almost always are about the Web. That’s why it was wonderful to hear [...]
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