http://blogs.hbr.org/haque/2010/03/the_social_media_bubble.html I’d like to advance a hypothesis: Despite all the excitement surrounding social media, the Internet isn’t connecting us as much as we think it is. It’s largely home to weak, artificial connections, what I call thin relationships. During the subprime bubble, banks and brokers sold one another bad debt — debt that couldn’t be [...]
http://konigi.com/wiki/user-interface-guidelines
Meat Done-ness This is a really great example of a graphic that calls you to action. Everyone that saw this couldn’t help but to try out what’s going on in the photo. Can YOU???
http://www.alexameade.com/ Alexa Meade is an installation artist based in the Washington, DC area. Her background in the world of political communications has fueled her intellectual interest in the tensions between perception and reality. Alexa Meade’s innovative use of paint on the three dimensional surfaces of found objects, live models, and architectural spaces has been incorporated [...]
http://sloanreview.mit.edu/special-report/design-thinking/ This is more for personal reference, I’d like to go back and read some of these articles in the future. Since it’s coming from MIT Sloan, these topics are viewed through the lens of management, but the content still looks pretty interesting. Nice to see how other professions / fields can use the principals [...]
http://whereismymilkfrom.com/ The UI is crap (you type the milk code into the skewed form on top of the milk carton), but the idea is cool. The milk at my office comes from Franklin, MA, not too far from Boston. Where is yours from?