Signposts for the Week ending July 7, 2006
by Adaptive PathNokia researcher Jan Chipchase has an amazing collection of his presentations about design and user research online.
BusinessWeek finally stops writing puff pieces about Google VP Marissa Mayer long enough to notice that aside from search, Google’s products haven’t done too well.
Speaking of both BusinessWeek and Nokia, here’s a BusinessWeek article on Nokia’s new design chief.
And yet more from BusinessWeek. This podcast with Gravity Tank principal Chris Conley, who chaired the IDEA 2006 product design awards, explains why the award winners are different from prior years, with a greater focus on strategy and context, and not just on the shiny and pretty.
Thomas Vander Wal discusses being a Technosocial Architect.
Sarah Rice, a frequent contributor to Adaptive Path project teams, offers her thoughts on Using Adoption Metaphors to Increase Customer Acceptance.
Will Wright, creator of the video games “Sim City” and “Spore” spoke with Brian Eno about the use of generative principles in making art and video games. Download this thought-provoking talk from The Long Now Foundation.
Before Chandler, before Lotus Agenda, there was PLATO. Here’s a little history of collaboration in the form of David Woolley’s “PLATO: The Emergence of Online Community.”
Not all corporate cultures are the same, here in the US or abroad. E-Consultancy looks at the 12 reasons why UK business don’t blog, and offers some advice to get those companies into the conversation.
And in more user-trend reportage from abroad, PingMag takes a look at Web 2.0 in Japan.
Harvard Business Review interviews psychologist and anthropologist G. Clotaire Rapaille about the psychology of salespeople as the “happy loser.” That part of the discussion isn’t as interesting as his explanation of other nation’s cultural archetypes as a barrier to sales.
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