Archive for July 2008

Pre-Project Project

Insight
There must be someway that designers and clients can experience the difficult points of a design process before there is a high stake to derail collaboration for the best solution. Both parties could learn about each other then work for a better solution than if they had not done the Pre-Project Project.
Possible Solution
As a pre-phrase, [...]

Bus Use Made Simple?

Bus as Car Replacement Transportation? Not quite yet, but it could be.
I got on a Metro Transit (Minneapolis and Saint Paul) bus not knowing where it was going or how to use it a number of times in the last month. I have never ever had the problems I have had in my own city [...]

JOTT Meet Sandy

jott.com
iwantsandy.com
[update] : Jott has, since this post, switched to a pay structure. Things about it are no longer free.

Wanta Watch a Sitcom?

What do you think? To my mind I wonder if work could be structured in such a way as to make trust a senior management principle along with a pile of other ideas? I am interested in the conversation. What do you think? What can you change or do with regard to work?
http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/05/21/no-schedules-no-meetings-enter-best-buys-rowe-part-1/
http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/05/22/no-schedules-no-meetings—enter-best-buy’s-rowe-part-2/
http://www.fastcompany.tv/video/how-best-buy-engages-employees-improve-productivity

User Generated Public Dropped Call List

AT&T User Generated Public Dropped Call List
Insight
AT&T wireless drops calls constantly.
I thoroughly enjoy my iPhone.
I hate the service.
Other people must to
Lets track it
Solution
I am looking for a developer interested in building an iPhone app that would make it easy to make a public record (sort of wiki like) of all our dropped calls.
After dropping a [...]

Stream of Consciousness

Where do Fire Trucks gas up? I’ve never seen it.
Why does my arching sprinkler have to arch? It always misses the corners of the yard. Is there a better way? Can’t all the nozzles have the same pressure/shooting distance?
If fuel prices are roughly double in Europe, most of the time, and I flew from Milan [...]

Tweaking the Classroom

Lets have a digital, collaborative and visual extension of the classroom.
How can we extend the conversations happening in the classroom so that students have higher retention and greater social interaction with the material? How can we do what iTunes has done with select university content and do it for whatever content we’re compelled to do [...]

Scrolling Updates in Gmail Chat?

The tab flashes… now, can we get the most recent chat to scroll in the tab?

End of the Year and Month

What if dates were displayed in a circle instead of a line?