Signposts for the Week Ending Oct. 3, 2008
by Adaptive PathDon Norman gave a lecture on Service Design recently at the Institute of Design. Thanks to Jeff Howard for transcribing it.
Margaret Gould Stewart and Graham Jenkins started a blog on Managing User Experience Teams.
A special issue of Science Times looks at the explosion of information about health and medicine — on the Web, in medical journals, in the doctor’s office and over the air — and offers some guidelines on how to sort it all out.
What can we say about this beautiful 1920s portable paper navigation system? It’s simple, elegant, but, alas, it adorned few intrepid wrists. We want one. Really want one.
Remember how you always meant to read Dale Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends and Influence People?” Now you can save some time and play nicer at work with this handy summary.
Our Rachel Hinman got herself published in Businessweek. She asks, “Can T-Mobile Become the Heroic Carrier We Need?” Go, Rachel!
We fell in love with Ponoko’s new Photomake tool. You can turn your drawings into objects!
But… we also want to do our part to save the environment. Print What You Like helps you save paper and Kate Galbraith from the New York Times gives us some tips for saving energy on computers.
In honor of their 10th anniversary, Google has made an old index circa 2001 available. What were you doing in 2001?
And finally, we got interested in how networked cars might impact city planning in this article on designing a smarter vehicle.
LATE BREAKING ENTRY: Flickr has outdone itself this time with the Flickr Explore Panda.
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October 8th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Guys, thanks for plugging Ponoko Photomake! If you’d like to try it out please let me know.