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PART 3 of 4 Months after eating at El Bulli my thoughts and perspectives on the meal are still changing: Certain taste memories are extremely vivid and seem to get stronger, others are bizarrely still changing. It has also been fascinating to compare and contrast my experience there with other innovative...
Articles, Experience Design, Featured Articles, Service Design
A lot of emphasis gets put on how terrible airlines treat their customers. But lets be honest, the experience delivered by the airports we visit has a large role in our travel experience. And anyone who has ever fought the escalators during rush hour in o’Hare, had their plane take off five hours...
Articles, Service Design, Strategic Innovation, sustainability
This past summer, I left my apartment in Milan, Italy for a farm in Normandy, France; That’s right – I voluntarily traded Prada for permaculture. Little did I know that I was leaving a design capital to get a serious design lesson. Rubber boots and metal sheers in tow, I was ready to heave...
Experience Design, Explorations, Featured Explorations, Service Design
Recently I’ve been having some problems with my cell phone, but who hasn’t, right? Whenever I send out a text message, my friends receive 4 or 5 duplicates of that same message. After getting multiple complains from many people and becoming hesitant when sending out any sort of text, I was finally...
Experience Design, Service Design, Strategic Innovation, Technology, Web
Just watching this vid already, I’m ready to buy into this software. The system itself looks great, and I’d love to use it. How do you see the future of multitouch heading? Something more along these lines? I’ve personally found touch desktop all-in-ones to be somewhat pointless, and...
Articles, Experience Design, Featured Articles, Service Design, Strategic Innovation
Over the past five years, user generated content has exploded, filling the Internet with reams of content and bringing along with it the concept of crowd-sourcing or depending on who you ask, co-creation. For those who are unfamiliar with the concept, it basically relies on the idea that two or five...
Art and Culture, Entertainment, Experience Design, Industrial Design, Service Design
PART 2 of 4 This is the second in a four part series on my adventure ding at El Bulli. Before heading up the coast to Roses I spent some time in Barcelona exploring the Boqueria market. The market is the perfect place to understand the terroir of Catalonia and a major inspirational source for Ferran...
Industrial Design, Service Design, Strategic Innovation, Technology, Web
This is a week of design for me, meeting with two talented design practitioners in Boston who are running a very successful company, talked to the folks running two of the top design schools and interviewed 4 designers respectively from London, Brazil, LA and Toronto. And catching with my design reading...
Business Models, Experience Design, Retail Design, Service Design, Social Media
There’s a growing dining trend in several North American cities that has been gaining a lot of momentum. Instead of trying to just bring new customers to their restaurants, innovative thinking restaurateurs are also bringing their restaurants to new customers. Catering trucks and street food...
Service Design, Social Media
Crowdfunding, AngelFlocks, Social Microphilanthropy whatever you call it, Kickstarter is a funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, inventors and explorers. Worth a peek. http://www.kickstarter.com/
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