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 [...]
Design is Powerful
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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 [...]
Broken: my Target experience
So, in my house I now refer to Target as the war zone. In all reality however, I have an affection for Target but dang it can be hard to go there. If I have five things on my list when I go there I have 5 wars to fight with Target. [...]
Weird, I admit, but it seems to me that change is broken. We all love the results of change… maybe… depending on if it is a better future for us or not. That is what I mean, change for change sake is broken for us. Isn’t that the case? It seems to me that what [...]
So far the people making fridges are trying to make them “smart” by making sections of them pressure sensitive. Then the fridge knows if the milk is low because of the weight on the milk’s pressure pad.
Problem, we all want to have our fridges tell us what we need but there are a couple hic [...]
Broken: Thermostat. Even the fancy preprogramed digital ones, broken. I know they work, but they are broken. They don’t provide what we want from a thermostat.
What we want to do is manage the temperature in our homes so that we can save money and consume less. The solution we have does not capitalize on our [...]
Broken: my shaving cream lid. For that matter, everyones shaving cream lid.
It might not seem broken to you but it does to me. I dislike having to stick the cream on my hand and then on my face. I already have something to wash, my face, why do I have to also wash my hand? [...]