It offers a new perspective, new tools and ideas on how to address strategic issues for enabling new growth by developing fresh answers to the classic questions in strategy: what business are you in? who is your customer? and how to organize to fulfill customers’ needs?
The complete guide can be downloaded here.
Quantifying the economic impact of innovation has turned out to be surprisingly difficult. Bill, astrophysicist Lowell Wood, and Nathan Myhrvold, former chief technology officer at Microsoft and founder of Intellectual Ventures, talk about how innovation is overlooked in economic statistics.
via Bill Gates – Conversations – The Failure to Measure Innovation – The Gates Notes.
ring°wall from SENSORY-MINDS on Vimeo.
SENSORY-MINDS is a start-up team of well experienced enthusiasts envisioning the next generation of computing.Working and researching in the field of Natural User Interfaces we develop innovative solutions for our customers that fascinate their users and engage and involve their clients.
Theoretically, HTML5 will reduce reliance on proprietary plug-ins, such as Adobe Flash. This means devices that may not support Flash–such as Safari for the iPhone–will be able to leverage the functionality of HTML5, enabling the creation of applications that will run on more devices. HTML5 also supports the following features: Offline data storage, meaning users can access web sites developed in it without being connected to the internet Drag and drop functionality Document editing i.e. Google Docs Built-in video Geolocation – the ability to identify the real-world location of a computer on the Internet
via Entrepreneur.com Daily Dose – Understanding Html5 And Why It Matters.
Closed OTT is where the internet video experience is managed by the service provider and open web content is chosen and integrated into a walled garden of the best bits (or most lucrative bits depending on how generous we are being)
Open OTT is where the consumer gets to move away from the confines of the service providers editorialised experience and ‘surfs’ the open web unheeded (normally using a browser that handles all the different display and encoding formats)
via Open or Closed OTT? « Andrew Burke’s Hardcore IPTV Blog.
g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.
Oblong Industries is the developer of the g-speak spatial operating environment.The SOE's combination of gestural i/o, recombinant networking, and real-world pixels brings the first major step in computer interface since 1984; starting today, g-speak will fundamentally change the way people use machines at work, in the living room, in conference rooms, in vehicles. The g-speak platform is a complete application development and execution environment that redresses the dire constriction of human intent imposed by traditional GUIs. Its idiom of spatial immediacy and information responsive to real-world geometry enables a necessary new kind of work: data-intensive, embodied, real-time, predicated on universal human expertise.
This conceptual video is a corporate collaborative research project initiated by Bonnier R&D into the experience of reading magazines on handheld digital devices. It illustrates one possible vision for digital magazines in the near future, presented by our design partners at BERG.
The Interface
Its different. The face of Windows Phone 7 is not a rectangular grid of thumbnail-sized glossy-looking icons, arranged in a pattern of 4×4 or so, like basically every other phone. No, instead, an oversized set of bright, superflat squares fill the screen. The pop of the primary colors and exaggerated flatness produces a kind of cutting-edge crispness that feels both incredibly modern and playful. Text is big, and beautiful. The result is a feat no phone has performed before: Making the iPhone's interface feel staid.
via Windows Phone 7 Series: Everything Is Different Now – Windows phone 7 – Gizmodo.
Right about now at Mobile World Congress, Adobe is officially announcing Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR for Android. I truly believe these technologies will redefine the mobile experience. Kevin Hoyt recorded a great video overview showing some demos on the Motorola Droid, which I have embedded below. I have also been testing a selection of mobile Flash sites, created by key partners like YouTube and ESPN, and I am very excited about the future of Flash in the mobile browser.
via The Flash Blog » Adobe announces Flash Player and AIR for Android.
Someone at Google apparently took pity on the poor users who can only explore Google Earth on their laptops. Jason Holt used his 20 percent project time to create a wraparound view of a modified Google Earth engine, and splashed it across 8 LCD screens in an immersive viewing booth. The result provides a view not unlike that from a starship's bridge, and allows users to seamlessly explore a virtual environment of the Earth, moon, and Mars — an experience that Google has dubbed “Liquid Galaxy.”
Video for Everybody is simply a chunk of HTML code that embeds a video into a website using the HTML5 <video> element, falling back to QuickTime and Flash automatically, without the use of JavaScript or browser-sniffing. It therefore works in RSS readers (no JavaScript), on the iPhone / iPad (don’t support Flash) and on many, many browsers and platforms.
YouTube – Objectified trailer.
A peek at the upcoming design documentary “Objectified”, by Gary Hustwit, the director of “Helvetica”. The trailer features the voices of Jonathan Ive, Andrew Blauvelt, Marc Newson, and Karim Rashid. The song is “I Like Van Halen Because My Sister Says They Are Cool” by El Ten Eleven.
Objectified premieres at film festivals and events worldwide starting this March, more info here: http://www.objectifiedfilm.com
Back in the early 1980s, Dieter Rams was becoming increasingly concerned by the state of the world around him – “an impenetrable confusion of forms, colours and noises.” Aware that he was a significant contributor to that world, he asked himself an important question: is my design good design?
As good design cannot be measured in a finite way he set about expressing the ten most important principles for what he considered was good design. (Sometimes they are referred as the ‘Ten commandments’.)
Here they are.
Designer Philippe Starck — with no pretty slides to show — spends 18 minutes reaching for the very roots of the question “Why design?” Listen carefully for one perfect mantra for all of us, genius or not.
News Highlights
* At the National Retail Federation Convention, Intel showed an interactive, 7-foot-6-inch Intel® Intelligent Digital Signage Concept with an LCD display and holographic glass to demonstrate how technology can enhance the retail customer experience with a multi-touch, multi-user interface.
* Concept demonstrates how digital signage technology can provide retailers with a competitive advantage, and how it can impact customer loyalty by providing targeted, interactive content to consumers.
* Optimized digital signage solutions based on the Intel® Core™ i7 processor and Windows 7-based Microsoft Windows Embedded Standard 2011* platform aim to better standardize a fragmented market.
Digital signage is appearing everywhere—in airports, banks, retail stores, and hospitals—ushering in a new era of in-store and on-site advertising and communications. The adoption of digital signage is expected to increase, prompted by higher impact, lower cost solutions that will draw in larger numbers of advertisers and businesses.
The Flex team has released an update to the 3.5 SDK that addresses an issue with the Flex-based AIR auto-update UI packaged within the SDK SDK-24766. The refreshed build, SDK 3.5a, has only a few files modified in order to fix this issue and this change does not affect the signing and caching of the SDK 3.5 RSLs originally released in December.
IDENT’s GestIC technology is a gesture-based interface system and they’re showing off by describing a cube of some sort that allows you to turn, twist, and pinch your data in 3D. Each side will have different functions and you can access messages and the web just by slipping and sliding on the surface.
If the iPad ushers in a new golden age of information design, things like New York's Approval Matrix, designed by Luke Hayman in 2005, may become the new norm.
The new iPad from Apple, presented in typical Steve Jobs fashion as game-changing, will, in fact, revolutionize the way we read magazines. Combining the rich visual content of a print publication, the ever-changing immediacy of a website, and the portability of an e-book reader, the iPad is something new.
Pentagram’s Luke Hayman, designer of, among others, Time, New York, and Travel + Leisure, was asked how this new format would change the world of magazines and came up with five ways off the top of his head.
via Five Ways the iPad Will Change Magazine Design | New at Pentagram | Pentagram.
A review of the current offices of Google, world leader of the innovation and research. An example with two head offices of the group, located in Mountain View in California and Zurich in Switzerland. Many stereotypes to be discovered in the continuation.
Widget Realm, a company that offers content publishing services for desktop apps, mobile devices and connected TV sets, on Tuesday launched its “Broadcast-It-Yourself” service for Internet-connected devices running the Yahoo! Widget Engine. According to the company, the new service will enable any developer to easily create and distribute TV widgets to millions of connected TV's and other connected devices. “Yahoo! and Widget Realm are going to enable an explosion of interactive television content,” Widget Realm CEO, Brian Powell, said in a prepared statement. “We're excited to be working with the Yahoo! Widget Engine to help rapidly expand content for the new technology. In just a few minutes, anyone can create their own television interface and distribute their content to the millions of Internet-connected TV's around the world.”
While the reviewers pick apart Apple's iPad, one unassailable argument remains: We are not just living in digital times, but on digital time.
From getting news to reading the latest best-selling novel, to watching reruns of Gilligan's Island, most of the content, products, information and entertainment we enjoy is available with a click. Consumers are conditioned to get what they want when they want it. I'm not sure this “double-click mentality” is necessarily a healthy thing, but it's real, and the reality has huge implications for marketing and media executives. People want things that are immediate and convenient. Woe to marketers–even bricks-and-mortar retailers–that don't get this. Double-click gratification is a table stake.
Daniel Kraft of the Singularity University discusses some of the medical technologies on the horizon. He talks about sub-$1000 genomes, regenerative medicine and the end of baldness among others. How will providers and patients discuss these complicated technologies and how can design create the tools to facilitate such coversations?
via Healthcare Innovation by Design – The Horizon of Healthcare Technology.
As physicians experience mounting pressure to contain costs and improve outcomes while their patient loads increase, many are finding that patients can be the most cost-effective and valuable tools to help them do their jobs.
The concept of participatory medicine, where patients take a more active role in their care, can enhance the physician-patient relationship and allow physicians and patients to bring their own expertise and knowledge to the table to produce the best outcomes.
Some languages are more precise than others. German’s word for disappointment, “Enttäuschung,” for example, literally translates as “disillusion” and thus implies that the prerequisite of any disappointment is excessive (and false!) expectation. As if that needed any further evidence, Apple’s iPad presentation and President Obama’s first State of the Union address last Wednesday marked the preliminary culmination of an obvious trend: disappointment as a widespread sentiment and cultural subtext at the dawn of this young decade. Both Apple and Obama are among the most powerful brands of our time and occupy that vexing space between hype and hope in the public mind. Both have zealous fans and followers, and enjoy an almost religious admiration. And both have now suffered a very public deflation, a humiliating erosion of their once unflappable appeal of invincibility, a painful rejection of love.
via The Grand Disappointment: Apple and Obama after Hype and Hope | Blog | design mind.