If you are like me and attend events where people talk about disruption, transformation and customer experience, then you’re most likely familiar with the brands that speakers love to mention when they talk about disruption: Kodak, who designed the first digital camera yet bet the bank on film. Yeah… Blockbuster, who never left the brick […]
I think it’s time to note down in words an idea that began a few years ago (so probably around 2010-2011), spoken about in lunches and meetings where a few souls, sitting on the edge of the precipice of publishing as the decline started to really take hold. A few of us were there – […]
Snapchat is launching an online magazine called Real Life at the end of June. Real Life aims to focus on our lives with technology, rather than focus on the technology with reviews, comparisons and all the usual hallmarks of tech publishing. I will definitely be watching this closely, both personal interest, and as someone who’s […]
At South by Southwest (SXSW) 2016, the big media/tech/art/futurism conference, leading design strategist and thinker John Maeda talked about his second Design in Tech report. I consider Maeda to be one of the most important voices in making design matter as an essential part of our daily lives, and the life of a brand. He […]
What, no clever title, you ask? Not this time – it’s not because the subject is so serious, but I think the words are mysterious enough already. Customer experience is a more recent bogeyman (read: buzzword). It’s been around long enough to impact our thinking and strategies, and for people to claim to be gurus, but not […]
I’m incredibly excited about Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR). I’ve played with both for a long while now, and been looking into it for ages. It’s one of those things I’ve been muttering excitedly about, but getting time to shout from the roof. We’re at a stage where the technology is getting real. Between […]
I like it. People apparently don’t. This HERE is the release on Uber’s site. Wired has a nice breakdown of the process HERE. I’m big into these process breakdowns. Partly my background in creative but also because I’m a bitter know it all who likes to judge designers and branding. I’m a big fan of the new brand. […]
1 year ago I didn’t use bluetooth on my phone. All well and good. Yesterday I was wondering if bluetooth causes cancer. I’ve got about 7 devices attached to my phone including a keyboard. Yeah, a keyboard for a phone. I can’t, justify or understand why I did it. Fortunately the rest are headphones including […]
Where Dragons Dwell 