When travelling back from Asia I tried to check the option of an earlier
connecting flight with the new iPad App of my favorite airline. And guess what: it needs an Internet connection and in 10.000 m above the ground …
iPad changes the way we interact with computers
Just found this very insightful presentation at slideshare on how the iPad changed the way we interact with computers.
Especially watching children interact with the iPad shows how great the UI and user experience is.
The value of the process
Just yesterday I came across this great presentation by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels at Ted 2009.
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Besides the gorgeous architecture and the interesting ideas captured within, what especially struck me were his remarks about their design process and how to capture it.
It became clear …
It’s the Why that counts !
By accident I ran across this short book review of Erik Wesner’s “Success made simple” by John Moore over at Brand Autopsy.
What struck me was the first paragraph of the summary about the success of the Amish people driven by starting …
Success in the Marshmallow Challenge
Here is another interesting talk from TED. Tom Wujec analyses the Marshmallow Challenge (www.marshmallowchallenge.com) and what it takes to succeed.
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My three take-aways for successful innovation:
prototyping and early feedback
incentives do not improve the result, just the opposite (also see Dan Pink’s …
Robot emotions, no ?!
Just came across this interesting talk by Dennis Mong at TEDxNASA
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Besides liking the overall talk, one very specific moment touched me. Roughly at 9:44 DARwIn 2a an autonomous robot scores his first goal in 2006. And while the developers burst …
The Beauty of Organization
Over at Design Thinking Tim Brown (Ideo’s CEO) asked the question about the beauty of organisations. I have started to think about a similar question concerning business models so I dropped a few thoughts as comments.
Still working on finding an …
Visual thinking on a global scale
Just found this masterpiece of visual explanation by Dan Roam in the Internet. The key is the demonstration of the power of the visual explanation.
Personally, working in and with many global teams I spend a lot of time in teleconferences and web …
99 reasons to buy
Cleaning up my desk I came across a flyer from the Bachler-Team, a training and consulting company from Austria. The flyer lists “99 Reasons to decide for the Bachler-Team”. Picking up the flyer when we had an off-site session at …
Theater in the Internet Age
Over the weekend I heard a radio interview with famous german theater actor Rolf Boysen. He will turn 90 the next days and had some great insights to share.
However, the main point that struck me was not so much any …