Fresh responsive design from the lab.
via New York 1 - by Budd Mishkin for One on 1.
This guy.
via Fast Co Design
Awesome.
“A new Google study on multiscreen consumer behavior finds that 77% of viewers watch television with another device in hand. Additionally, “in many cases people search on their devices, inspired by what they see on TV,” reports Google in a blog post about the study. Now compound this with other findings from the study, such as 80% of searches on smartphones are “spur-of-the-moment,” and 44% of those searches are goal-oriented, and you can see why Google says businesses should be present and optimized across multiple screens.”
via Fast Company by Ryan Holmes
Behind this laundry list is a more hefty benefit. Social technologies have the potential to free up expertise trapped in departmental silos. High-skill workers can now be tapped company-wide. Managers can find out “which employees have the deepest knowledge in certain subjects, or who last contributed to a project and how to get in touch with them quickly,” saysNew York Times tech reporter Quentin Hardy. Just cutting email out of the picture in favor of social sharing translates to a productivity windfall as “more enterprise information becomes accessible and searchable, rather than locked up as ‘dark matter’ in inboxes.”
Great read.
The Pulse on Lost Remote, Episode 4
via ESPN Playbook by Maria Burns Ortiz
via Fast Company by David Zax (http://www.davidzax.com/)
DZ:What industries do you look to for inspiration, if not the tech world?
JF:I take my inspiration from small mom-and-pop businesses that have been around for a long time. There are restaurants all over the place that I like to go to that have been around a long time, 30 years or more, and thinking about that, that’s an incredible run. I don’t know what percentage of tech companies have been around 30 years. The other interesting thing about restaurants is you could have a dozen Italian restaurants in the city and they can all be successful. It’s not like in the tech world, where everyone wants to beat each other up, and there’s one winner. Those are the businesses I find interesting—it could be a dry cleaner, a restaurant, a clothing store. Actually, my cleaning lady, for example, she’s great.
DZ: Your business icon is your cleaning lady?
JF: She’s on her own, she cleans people’s homes, she’s incredibly nice. She brings flowers every time she cleans, and she’s just respectful and nice and awesome. Why can’t more people be like that? She’s been doing it some twenty-odd years, and that’s just an incredible success story. To me that’s far more interesting than a tech company that’s hiring a bunch of people, just got their fourth round of financing for 12 million dollars, and they’re still losing money. That’s what everyone talks about as being exciting, but I think that’s an absolutely disgusting scenario when it comes to business.
yes.