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Tower Bridge starts to Twitter
Tower Bridge has joined the ranks of an increasing number of intelligent objects that can tell us things about themselves. My colleague David Whittle uncovered this beautiful little story: Tower Bridge...
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Why did Apple launch a bad phone?
If if the 1st Gen iPhone was so “bad” – what was Apple thinking when they launched it? Lots of people are excited about the new iPhone because they think it will address many of the annoyances present...
View ArticleCollaboration and creativity use up the social surplus
Organised, industrial society creates left-over time for its citizens — and that time has to be used up somehow. At first it was with gin. Then TV. Now it’s just beginning to be with mass creation and...
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Social design for Springleap
Cape Town’s new collaborative T-shirt design website is a really interesting piece of social design. A couple of weeks ago, Eric Edelstein, the CEO of Springleap asked me to pop by and chat about the...
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Apalling and astonishing
Two flowsters, Ofer Deshe and Simon Johnson, dug out these two fine blog posts and sent them to me. The five worst website designs in the world Ten futuristic user interfaces What I take from this: The...
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Extreme e-commerce
“South Africans would always rather jump in the car to go an buy something than buy it over the internet,” says Andrew Smith, director of YuppieChef. He’s right. And it means that if you can design an...
View ArticleDestructive excuses
Here are four excuses I’ve heard recently. Not delivered in these exact words or course. I’ve summarised them to save us all time. I’m too busy coding to work out whether people will want the product I...
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Vodacom service: Experience the dancing bear
Signing up with Vodacom for an iPhone: it worked, but only just. Next to Apple’s amazing user experience design, Vodacom’s service design looks distinctly shabby. Sorting it out would benefit customers...
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Design thinking: Make your business amazing
Originally posted on memeburn.com What is design? Most people will answer that question by pointing to a designed object – the iPhone, for example. Now that’s good design! The Mini Cooper. London’s...
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Flow project: 25% increase in registrations for MXit
Flow helped MXit create MXit 6: a stylish and easy-to-use new version of their mobile phone software across three types of handset. The project delivered a 25% increase in daily registrations in the...
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