Powerful structures for product-driven organisations
A side effect of the digital revolution has been the closing of the perceived gap between product thinking and communications thinking. Not always with desirable results. Watching these worlds collide has long been a fascination for me, as they are such distinctly different approaches, require such different skills and temperament and are typical bought by… Continue reading Two tribes
It takes a very cold heart indeed to not love a user-experience concept which can be illustrated using a mathematical formula. Look at Fitts’s law: This set of symbols help us understand that the ability to point at something on a screen (or in real life) is dependent on the size of the thing in… Continue reading Decision time
News just in from the department of the extremely obvious - iPhone users can be a little obsessional and, even, delusional. It seems a consultancy has invested a serious amount of time to diagnose what they call the 'iPhone syndrome'. Strand Consulting tells us that the iPhone isn't that great a phone but that users… Continue reading Lost in telecommunication
The whole phrase is 'Now we know what the future looks like, what would we like to do with it?' For the second post in a row I'm afraid I'm in a rather idealistic mood. But it seems to me, now, that we look at the structure of business and marketing as it's being done… Continue reading Now we know what the future looks like
I've talked here a few times (here and here) about how Microsoft doesn't seem to be able to catch a break. Google or Apple get gushing reviews for living 'in beta', Microsoft gets slammed for getting stuff out too soon. Apple's security is questionable, but we never hear about that. Nor it seems are we… Continue reading Creating the ribbon
Leading product 