Invented as a diversion for hideous giants. 100 years ago.
]]> Inventing basketball. You wouldn't be here without giants today. Straight up! Watch the video!]]>No comment. "Who do you think won this round of the rap battle?"
]]> The best argument in my opinion, from a physicist's point of view: "I use the metric system exclusively!" Exactly. Respect the SI base units! Watch the video! | View the SI standard!]]>There you go: Cue to 0:30. *We made it possible to interact with the screen without having to download any application."
]]> "Simply get online and go to ..." URL. My words. The Mobile Web is coming. RIP Mobile Apps. McDonald's Pick'n'Play. Watch the video!]]>
Ever since Google Buzz was announced I was confused.
Six months later I was even more confused - asking for "Google X. A service that has an integrated approach, combining Orkut, Buzz, Reader, gTalk - and everything revolving around my one and only Google Profile!"
]]> We now have Google+. It might be Google X. It's all around faces ... Read the New York Times! | Found on Mashable! | Waiting for an invitation ...]]>We are looking for visual inspirations. Found this one at last. Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange wallpapers meet Blake Edwards' The Party and Jean-Luc Godard's À bout de souffle.
[Update June 28: ... plus Luis Buñuel's Un chien andalou. How comes I omitted him?]
]]> Robbie Williams' Come Undone. Disgusting. Deguelasse. And unrelated. This video seems to be a rarity even in YouTube times. Not PC of course ;) And not suited for minors. A standard international disclaimer should go here ... Watch the video!]]>A Fjord week.
]]> 1. Don't reinventThis is classical marketing at its best! Looks like an Apple spot indeed ;)
]]> "Tap, pay, and save with Google Wallet."Definitely, Google has come a long way. From an ad-phobic crowd of engineers to an organization offering their products in a professional and consistent manner. A positive development. At least in my eyes ... Get Google Wallet! | Watch the ad!
]]>I always loved ads. And brands. Watch it!
]]> Reminds me of living a Utopia like Claudia Langer and Gregor Woeltje. Watch the video! | Visit FearLess! | Visit Utopia (German)!]]>We had UX Design in the financial services; here comes innovation. Getting my head around a new industry ...
]]> How comes I never met Peter Fisk? He has some quite flashy presentations on display and a series of inspiring books (the latter disappointingly text-only though ...). Well, white spots happen.Back to banking in four parts:
Ideas in short: From -> To, West -> East, Big -> Small, Few -> Many, Mass -> Niche, Volume -> Value.
"Times of turbulence are the most exciting times ... because everything changes."
- Pablo Picasso
Born in a recession:
... take your time and thoroughly browse the whole deck. Excellent inspirations!
[Expect the presentation to be unavailable from 10 PM Wed until 2 AM Thur PST/ 9 AM to 1 PM Thur CET. SlideShare gets a new hairdo.]
]]>Amir Dotan from LAB49 shares his experiences working as a user experience architect in the financial services industry in London. The presentation is the first publication ever I came across which is connecting UX/ IA with this particular business.
]]> Why is the literature so rare? Amir Dotan:Seems plausible. His talk in 3 parts:
Make sure to browse the whole deck! A few random thoughts for the fast lane:
Welcome, 2011! It's January 2 and we still have a few restful and calm days left to clean up, pile up, and put away: Almost a year ago I decided to illustrate a growing number of business quotations rusting on my local harddrive and toss them out onto SlideShare.
]]> 3 quotes per month, 12 quotes per quarter. Planned to be decks of raw material--not elaborate presentations--one slide for the quote plus one slide for a photographylization, I ended up with 66 slides to steal from in November.What really took me by surprise was your interest in those decks.
Whereas some of them went by almost unnoticed, July, August, and September were featured on the SlideShare homepage by the editorial team. Nominating the September issue for the World's Best Presentation Contest '10, and keeping it on page 1 amongst a growing number of more than 1800 shows from 1400 contestants up into the final, made it my most viewed deck ever with almost 34200 views as of this writing. Within ony 2 months.
So here comes November. Being featured amongst the 3 Top Presentations of the Day from December 17 to December 21 on SlideShare, it already has more than 14200 views two weeks later ;)
[Update January 4, 2011 4:29 AM: I seem to be onto something. Being featured amongst the 3 Top Presentations of the Day again--this time with the December issue.]
"Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is on paper."
- Alan Cooper
32. "The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said." Peter Drucker
31. "We are currently not planning on conquering the world." Sergey Brin
30. "Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful." Larry Page in Businessweek, March 13, 2001
29. "If I hold you any closer, I'll be in back of you." Groucho Marx as Dr. Hackenbush
28. "Nine women can't have a baby in one month, no matter how closely they coordinate their work." Seth Godin A saying that has been around since the ice age
27. "Opportunity is missed by most because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work." Thomas Edison
26. "IT is not comparable to a fully sequential engineering system in which deliverables result from planning, designing, building, testing, reworking, retesting, and finalizing." Mark D. Lutchen
25. "Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast." Peter Drucker
24. "One has to do something new in order to see something new." Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
23. "Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution." Clay Shirky
22. "A line is a dot that went for a walk." Paul Klee
21. "The term 'social networking' makes little sense if we leave out the objects that mediate the ties between people. [...] The fallacy is to think that social networks are just made up of people." Jyri Engeström
20. "Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features." Steve Jobs
19. "The long silence - the interruption of the human conversation -- is coming to an end. On the Internet, markets are getting more connected and more powerfully vocal every day." The Cluetrain Manifesto
18. "Rather be dead than cool." Kurt Cobain
17. "These are issues that we are going to have to address, because they are significant." Ben Bernanke
16. "One finds limits by pushing them." Herbert Simon
15. "If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin." Ivan Turgenev
14. "I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted" George Best
13. "[...] a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it." Herbert Simon
12. "Eighty percent of success is showing up." Woody Allen
11. "Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other." Kevin Kelly
10. "A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five." Groucho Marx
9. "I apologize for writing you a long letter but I didn't have time to write you a short one." Blaise Pascal
8. "Fail early to succeed sooner." Matt Hunter, Product Development, IDEO
7. "Implement solutions, not features." John Geleynse, Software Technology Evangelism, Apple
6. "Don't open a shop unless you like to smile." Chinese Proverb
5. "The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible." David Ogilvy
4. "Before I speak, I have something important to say." Groucho Marx
3. "Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future." Niels Bohr
2. "If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they'd have said a faster horse." Henry Ford
1. "Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration." Jeffrey Zeldman
Thank you all for your interest, favorites, comments, downloads, and contest votes in 2010. Pls keep them up in 2011 and view the presentation!
]]>"Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful."
- Larry Page in Businessweek, March 13, 2001
To get this one straight: Our Business Quotes and Playbook decks are raw material, not elaborate presentations. Decks to steal from ...
]]> Here comes the October edition of Business Quotes: 30 quotes and photographylizations selected during the year.29. "If I hold you any closer, I'll be in back of you." Groucho Marx as Dr. Hackenbush
28. "Nine women can't have a baby in one month, no matter how closely they coordinate their work." Seth Godin A saying that has been around since the ice age
27. "Opportunity is missed by most because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work." Thomas Edison
26. "IT is not comparable to a fully sequential engineering system in which deliverables result from planning, designing, building, testing, reworking, retesting, and finalizing." Mark D. Lutchen
25. "Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast." Peter Drucker
24. "One has to do something new in order to see something new." Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
23. "Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution." Clay Shirky
22. "A line is a dot that went for a walk." Paul Klee
21. "The term 'social networking' makes little sense if we leave out the objects that mediate the ties between people. [...] The fallacy is to think that social networks are just made up of people." Jyri Engeström
20. "Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features." Steve Jobs
19. "The long silence - the interruption of the human conversation -- is coming to an end. On the Internet, markets are getting more connected and more powerfully vocal every day." The Cluetrain Manifesto
18. "Rather be dead than cool." Kurt Cobain
17. "These are issues that we are going to have to address, because they are significant." Ben Bernanke
16. "One finds limits by pushing them." Herbert Simon
15. "If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin." Ivan Turgenev
14. "I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted" George Best
13. "[...] a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it." Herbert Simon
12. "Eighty percent of success is showing up." Woody Allen
11. "Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other." Kevin Kelly
10. "A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five." Groucho Marx
9. "I apologize for writing you a long letter but I didn't have time to write you a short one." Blaise Pascal
8. "Fail early to succeed sooner." Matt Hunter, Product Development, IDEO
7. "Implement solutions, not features." John Geleynse, Software Technology Evangelism, Apple
6. "Don't open a shop unless you like to smile." Chinese Proverb
5. "The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible." David Ogilvy
4. "Before I speak, I have something important to say." Groucho Marx
3. "Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future." Niels Bohr
2. "If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they'd have said a faster horse." Henry Ford
1. "Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration." Jeffrey Zeldman
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]]>Squared Eye's Matthew Smith is leaving the little Web Design, Visual Design, User Experience Design box and presenting his thoughts concerning the whole Business Experience.
]]> "If you don't know where you're going, you might end up somewhere else."There is an excellent video recording available from Frontend 2010 in Oslo. View the slides! | Watch the presentation!
]]>Helge Tennø: "Summarizing the last one and a half years of thinking and stealing I thought I'd put together the best ideas I've presented through my blog and slideshare account."
[While on SlideShare: Don't forget to vote--it's one more week!]
]]> Don't rely on any numbering you might spot within the deck! As Helge says: Those slides are in random order.3 excerpts:
"#1 The greatest thing the iPad did was help people imagine what the Web should look like
#2 People talk--they don't want to be interrupted, but they do want their conversations to be ignited and valuable
#3 Mobile as a term is just a reference to an eco-system that phones are a part of ..."
The two & the Red Fez presentations
- Pursue your dream--and never accept a proven solution! This is ... Paul Otlet and
- The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible. 28 quotes for your next presentation
have been nominated for the World's Best Presentation Contest '10.
]]> Check out both decks and make sure to cast your vote for us online - with the BIG BLACK thumbs directly below the slides. Adobe Flash required! No iPhone or iPad voting.Deadline for voting is Thursday, November 11, 2010. 11:59 AM PST November 29th 2010, 11:59 PM PST. Vote now. And: You can vote for both entries!
Vote for the Paul Otlet presentation! | Vote for the Quotes presentation!
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