Posted on April 28, 2008, 11:03 pm, by josephrueter, under
opportunity.
I became aware today of a family that had their lights of their main hallway out for 3+ years. Solution: change the bulbs. Another instance includes a garage door key pad that has been not functioning for many years. Solution: New battery.
So, this leads me to wonder why it is that we leave broken things [...]
Posted on April 28, 2008, 10:21 pm, by josephrueter, under
opportunity.
So, it is widely known that smokers get their smoke break. Well I want an RSS break. Anyone else? I mean really, I gotta have my RSS! Chain RSS R US (but with the R reversed for sure).
Today, I decided I had had enough. I finally decided that my attempts at simplicity had just got to complex. This thing intended to make reading blogs simple, rss ( really simple syndication) was just a monster in my Safari browser.
Recently, I started following quite-a-few more feeds. Safari shows numbers in the bookmarks bar for [...]
I received a reply to the email I sent my favorite place to stay on the North Shore of Lake Superior. After I read it I could only think that people running companies need to be people first before they are “running the company.” I feel like we need classes or training camps on how [...]
Posted on April 21, 2008, 12:38 am, by josephrueter, under
Broken,
Design.
I once herd an administrator at a revered design school talk about the goal of the school being the redefinition of “design.” He said they were intent on changing the role of designers. In the past designers found their place at the end of the process deciding how to make things look good. To this [...]
Posted on April 18, 2008, 10:22 am, by josephrueter, under
Design.
Einestein was rational… but it was often because of day dreaming and abduction (a best guess). Maybe it could help you too.
Designers are often charged with needing to prove the future they propose before they are given the money and means to move forward. It is as if the worst possible outcome of the change [...]
Posted on April 16, 2008, 2:45 pm, by josephrueter, under
Broken,
Godin.
Seth Godin in his book “Small is the New Big” writes on page 52, “What people are afraid of isn’t Failure. It’s blame. Criticism.” Interesting, I thought. Most people in my experience defiantly default to a Fear of Failure excuse when explaining why they do what they do or don’t do what they know they [...]
With the advent of new communication techniques companies are increasingly likely to cut out the middleman. In the past companies would hire people to get information from and about their clients. Now the company and the client just talk to each other with a very low barrier to entry, say email for instance. But as [...]
Posted on April 10, 2008, 5:12 pm, by josephrueter, under
fix,
opportunity.
Design is Powerful
Take a closer peek here, www.designergasmasks.com
Contemplate the landing page for a bit. There are a number of layers of meaning to my mind and it seems as I ponder the images and concepts the layers continue to get more and more poignant… more profound. One take away thought would be that we want to [...]