Navigating the World of Multi-Platform & Transmedia Rituals | Keynote From the Always Excellent Gary Hayes
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By SOHRAB VOSSOUGHI, originally post on fastdesign.com
Why empathy is a creative company’s most powerful tool.
[This post is a rebuttal to one previously written by Jens Martin Skibsted and Rasmus Bech Hansen, "User-Led Innovation Can't Create Breakthroughs; Just Ask Apple and Ikea." — Ed.]
User research has been a critical part of Ziba’s design process for more than 25 years, and we’re not alone. Long before the term User Centered Design (UCD) was coined in the 1980s, the world’s smartest companies have relied on insights gained from their customers to innovate....
Be the Target Market
Consider Zipcar. The world’s leading car-sharing service got its start 11 years ago in a Cambridge, MA cafe, when Antje Danielson described a concept she had seen in Berlin to fellow businesswoman Robin Chase. Chase recognized the opportunity immediately, because she was its target user. In 2003, she explained to the New York Times that there was “a huge demand for the service if it was positioned correctly--I knew because I was the market.”
The world is full of innovations that came from users...."
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Tattoo artist Scott Campbell turns ink-freak imagery onto George Washington.
If Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti gets his way, ferries full of sex-seekers will steam across the harbour to a Toronto Islands red light district.
Mammoliti has for years said Toronto should regulate and tax brothels, and made the establishment of a distinct prostitution zone a central plank in his aborted run for mayor last year.
Now part of Mayor Rob Ford’s inner circle, Mammoliti (Ward 7, York West) is renewing the push, along with the leafy islands as his top choice for location.
“It’s the political issue that nobody wants to touch,” Mammoliti, chair of the community development and recreation committee, said Tuesday after making his case in a radio interview...
...The sex zone, and hotels and other businesses it would draw, could put “hundreds of millions of dollars” in “sin taxes” into city coffers, he predicted. Get provincial permission for a casino on the islands and “we would have solved all of our problems at city hall without cutting and going crazy....”
Read the full article on Mammoliti's idiotic plan...
Read the full interview on Metropolismag.com
From the site:
"Chicago’s Empty Necklace
At the end of the 19th century plans were made to connect 7 major parks in Chicago with a network of 26 miles of boulevards. The boulevards and parks would wrap around the city creating a so-called Emerald Necklace. The plan was largely successful and is still visible from satellite photos today. But while the waterfront parkland and the parks along the necklace have been heavily invested in and used, the boulevards remain for the most part empty - 26 miles of uninterrupted empty.
In January 2011 Mas Studio announce a new competition that challenges designers to re-evaluate the Emerald Necklace and the boulevard system. In all likelihood the competition is to be flooded with proposals for continuous urban agriculture, looped tramlines, landscape urbanism post-city deconstructions, and renewable energy farms. DoUC also throw their hat in the ring...."
Excerpt from Joshua Benton's full article on niemanlab.org:
"... (Obligatory note: I think the Times is right to ask regular readers to pay, and I think their paywall is basically well designed. Me, I just became a print subscriber last week, using the Frank Rich Discount. Support your local journalist!)
...This CSS-and-Javascript hole, however, isn’t difficult to use at all. One drag into your bookmark bar, then one click whenever you hit a blocked article.
And yet this workaround is so blindingly obvious to anyone who’s ever worked with code that it’s difficult to imagine it didn’t come up in the paywall planning process. The other major news paywalls — WSJ, FT, The Economist — don’t actually send the entire forbidden article to your browser, then try cover it up with a couple lines of easily reversible code. They just hit you with a message saying, in effect, “Sorry, pay up here” whenever you stray past the free zone.
And that leakiness is actually a defensible choice, I think, on the Times’ part. Imagine a Venn diagram with two circles. One represents all the people on the Internet who might be convinced to pay for nytimes.com. The other represents all the people on the Internet who (a) know how to install a bookmarklet or (b) have read a Cory Doctorow novel. Do you really see a big overlap between the two? If someone is absolutely certain to never pay for the NYT, then it makes sense to squeeze a little extra advertising revenue out of them on the rare occasions when a link sends them to nytimes.com...."