Links and things about design and business.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
If real 2021 doesn’t look like this, I’m gonna be pissed.
I’m definitely going to steal some UI ideas from this video.
Lego Mindplay
Mindplay: bricks on me is a project by Dutch design firm Elroy Klee where three different ‘wigs’ are created from LEGO bricks.
(Source: ffffound.com)
WesWyrds: Hacking Social Proof: Getting the right users and turning them into lovers
GRAIN OF SALT DISCLAIMER: I’m new to startups and have had ZERO successes. I am, however, not new to products and trends. I’ve had a fascination with trends and fads since I was a child and have spent my adult years closely observing the trend life cycle in the major cities I’ve lived in (Los…
You can be assured we are working as hard as ever this year to deliver an incredible year and some products that will blow your mind.
Tim Cook talking today at Apple’s shareholders meeting.
“We’re working on things that will blow your mind” is a pretty constant theme amongst those I talk to from time to time at Apple. While the competition is all aimed squarely at them, they’re not worried in the least bit because they’re aimed squarely at the future.
Skate to where the puck will be…
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The Management Team via avc.com
The “management team” isn’t the “decision making” team. It’s a support function. You may want to call them administration instead of management, which will keep them from getting too big for their britches.
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This is my view of management as administration—as a service corps that helps the talented individuals that build and sell products do their jobs better.
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It is not, as it turns out, necessary to be a micromanaging psychopath with narcissistic personality disorder (or even to pretend to be one) if you just hire smart people and give them real authority.
(Source: avc.com)
http://www.chrisbrogan.com/platform01/
If you seek to make an impact in 2012 and beyond, the time has come to think seriously about your digital presence. How will you use a handful of social networks well? How will you create a unified presence that builds your story, empowers your interactions, and helps you rise up from being just another voice in the stream?
Build Your Platform: Goals
The goal of building your platform is to create useful information, to select the best possible media to package that information, and then to choose a series of distribution technologies for delivering your ideas to others, to encourage interactions, and to drive towards certain target results.
Simpler still: your goal is to move your ideas through a platform to encourage a human interaction.
moledro
n. a feeling of resonant connection with an author or artist you’ll never meet, who may have lived centuries ago and thousands of miles away but can still get inside your head and leave behind morsels of their experience, like the little piles of stones left by hikers that mark a hidden path through unfamiliar territory.
How to Write
How to Write
On September 7th of 1982, advertising legend David Ogilvy sent an internal memo to all employees of his advertising agency, Ogilvy & Mather. The memo was entitled “How to Write,” and consisted of the following list of advice.
(Source: The Unpublished David Ogilvy: A Selection of His Writings from the Files of His Partners; Image: David Ogilvy, via Ogilvy & Mather.)
The better you write, the higher you go in Ogilvy & Mather. People who think well, write well.
Woolly minded people write woolly memos, woolly letters and woolly speeches.
Good writing is not a natural gift. You have to learn to write well. Here are 10 hints:
1. Read the Roman-Raphaelson book on writing*. Read it three times.
2. Write the way you talk. Naturally.
3. Use short words, short sentences and short paragraphs.
4. Never use jargon words like reconceptualize, demassification, attitudinally, judgmentally. They are hallmarks of a pretentious ass.
5. Never write more than two pages on any subject.
6. Check your quotations.
7. Never send a letter or a memo on the day you write it. Read it aloud the next morning—and then edit it.
8. If it is something important, get a colleague to improve it.
9. Before you send your letter or your memo, make sure it is crystal clear what you want the recipient to do.
10. If you want ACTION, don’t write. Go and tell the guy what you want.
David
*Writing That Works, by Kenneth Roman and Joel Raphaelson
