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Iterate, Iterate, Iterate, Innovate

Destination Innovation

It was the 52 nd game that Rovio had launched since the company was founded in 2003. They treated each rejection as a step along the road and a chance to refine their presentation for the next investor. It was designed to ease the pain for sufferers from arthritis. This is what Threadless do with their T-shirt designs.

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Design for Emotion and Flow

Boxes and Arrows

Information architects and designers play a critical role in ensuring the products they design provide users’ with a return on their investment of attention. The causes of flow have the most implications for website and application design. Presented as a challenge that you have the skills to handle.

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Optimizing UI icons for faster recognition

Boxes and Arrows

I observed an interesting (although hardly surprising) pattern: When people were presented with unfamiliar signs, they usually tried to interpret them as iconic–based on the objects they resemble–and use existing common knowledge to understand them. The latter is a symbolic sign with indexical features. A book by C. References.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). Unicorns, Decacorns and Hectocorns are the theme of the present era. They were inventors of the 20th Century; many of which gave rise to the said products. Now, how about these?

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). Unicorns, Decacorns and Hectocorns are the theme of the present era. They were inventors of the 20th Century; many of which gave rise to the said products. Now, how about these?

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Great to Good

IdeaSpies

Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). Unicorns, Decacorns and Hectocorns are the theme of the present era. They were inventors of the 20th Century; many of which gave rise to the said products. Now, how about these?

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Remembering

Technology Created

The iPhone was five months old, Twitter was barely on the horizon, much of what we consider intrinsic in our daily lives today was not really present at all. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history we make today.” Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2003. 5] Perez, Carlota.