He said that RIM regularly speaks to chief information officers, who say they do not like that Android devices and iPhones have become prominent in the work place.
I will be fair, no IT personal wants to change. (I deal with them all the time for work…testing new products.)
Don’t forget the days they hated AIM channels for instant chat, or the first rise of the text messaging devices, or way back when the first electronic mail system came about.
Consumers make and define the standards of “norm” (i.e. iPhones and Androids)
IT personel will complain regardless of any new technology out there. RIM did a poor insight study to define their next strategy. RIM’s old strategy was about working for the enterprise and they are still saying their target market is the enterprise. This strategy is nothing new, just money burned. » In Europe, Some Lovers of the BlackBerry Now Seek A New Flavor - NYTimes.com
I am troubled by the devaluing of the word ‘design’. I find myself now being somewhat embarrassed to be called a designer. In fact I prefer the German term, Gestalt-Ingenieur. Apple and Vitsoe are relatively lone voices treating the discipline of design seriously in all corners of their businesses. They understand that design is not simply an adjective to place in front of a product’s name to somehow artificially enhance its value. Ever fewer people appear to understand that design is a serious profession; and for our future welfare we need more companies to take that profession seriously.Dieter Rams: Apple has achieved something I never did - Telegraph
Boss notice how my chin becomes a square when I am upset. (Illustrations of me thinking about a design.)
best chart ever. the story of apple ratio of sales to their R&D spendage. (click on image for the article)
it makes sense. the top are bloated bureaucratic companies that spends on R&D and then there is Apple at the bottom… interesting insight. funny how we don’t have IBM, Kodak, 3M, XeroX on the list. It would make an interesting graph. or maybe one from the 70s (the golden era of these companies that are bankrupt today)
the brain has a vast evolutionary history, and that this history shapes human nature. We are not a blank slate but a byproduct of imperfect adaptations, stuck with a mind that was designed to meet the needs of Pleistocene hunter-gatherers on the African savanna.I always do question my state of mind. ;) i like his thoughts. Depression’s Upside - NYTimes.com
Many companies get the disease of thinking that a really great idea is 90 percent of the work. And if you just tell all these other people here’s this great idea then of course they can go off and make it happen. And the problem with that is that there’s just a tremendous amount of craftsmanship in between a great idea and a great product. Designing a product is keeping five thousand things in your brain and fitting them all together in new and different ways to get what you want. And every day you discover something new that is a new problem or a new opportunity to fit these things together a little differently.LukeW | Quotes from Steve Jobs Lost Interview
nice video process of brand logo change over. designed by moving brands (via Coyote (Not So) Ugly)
cute infographics to explain china. (via Introducing China through infographics)
i like to try this. the most natural alarm clock i have seen. (via vera wiedermann: dreamtime alarm clock)
now this is funny. (via ‘LikeBelt’ Prototype Lets You Update Facebook with a Hip Thrust)
