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• Design in the Wild, Gold Star, Interface, Mobile, Thoughts

  Design in the wild: IntelliScreen - finally, some idle screen customization for the iPhone

  05.14.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Over at ModMyiPhone there’s a post about new software called IntelliScreen that allows you to load widgets onto your iPhone’s idle screen. While I’ve made it this far without jailbreaking my phone (and I can certainly make it another month), this brings to light a need that has until now gone suspiciously unmet in my […]

• Design, Design in the Wild, Gold Star, Product, Thoughts

  Design in the Wild: Finally, a blister pack that won’t slice open an artery!

  05.06.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I can’t tell you how many stupid injuries I’ve sustained by the traditional Fort-Knoxian approach to blister packs. Nice to finally see an elegant solution to that problem. Just pull on the little tab that says “Pull” and your labeler is released from its confines. Easy peasy.
  And yes, that is a brand new, Brother P […]

• Design, Gadgets, Gold Star, Product, Thoughts

  Lusting after a Ghetto Blaster in 2008

  04.19.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  This morning Gabe sent me a link to this absolutely beautiful piece of audio gear - Lasonic’s iPod Ghetto Blaster. I cannot express to you how awesome I think this is and the fact that it got such a stellar review is even more exciting. The price is a reasonable $170 but sadly there’s not […]

• Design, Design in the Wild, Gold Star, Product

  Design in the wild: Oxford Landing wine tab

  04.15.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Dennis sent me this great post by Ben Terrett, a graphic designer in London points out a great little packaging innovation by Oxford Landing wines: a simple tear-off tab with their brand and style of wine so that you can easily remember what wine it was you had should you want to buy it again. […]

• Customer Service, Design in the Wild, Gold Star

  Design in the wild: Twitter’s “Share Your Story”

  04.14.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Last week a new link appeared in the sidebar on my Twitter profile page that read “Share your story.” It looked like this:

  The wording was such that I was intrigued to see what kind of story they were looking for, so I clicked and came here:

  A simple web form asking for simple information but […]

• Customer Service, Design, Design in the Wild, Gold Star, Interface, Social, Thoughts

  Design in the Wild: Beautiful Barcodes

  04.05.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Leave it to the Japanese to take something as mundane as the barcode and make an artform out of it.
  Update: Check out this post filled with awesome barcodes that safoocat sent me via Flickr.
  This reminded me of those super cool Japanese manhole covers from a while back:

  These are great examples of how anything (even […]

• Customer Service, Design in the Wild, Gold Star, Interface, Social, Thoughts

  Design in the Wild: Get Satisfaction’s Social Onboarding Process

  03.31.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Get Satisfaction is an awesome site devoted to providing a platform for companies, as well as the people who use their products, to provide (and share) support for their products. It’s a top notch approach to customer service that does a great job at leveraging current technology as well as current social community behavioral trends […]

• Data, Design in the Wild, Gold Star, Review, Thoughts

  Design In The Wild: Weather Underground and their personal touch

  03.28.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Weather Underground has been my go-to source for weather on the web for the past 5 years ever since my buddy Gabe introduced me to it. At first the site felt way too information heavy for me but after giving it a chance I’ve grown to love all that data, partly due to the care […]

• Gold Star, Process, Thoughts

  Marketing + Advertising. Never the same again (and that’s a great thing)

  03.23.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

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  If you want to see, in 5 quick minutes, how these industries are changed forever (in a way that makes them infinitely more interesting than they were before), watch this presentation by Paul Isakson . Frankly, if it wasn’t for these changes, I wouldn’t be so interested in doing […]

• Customer Service, Design in the Wild, Gold Star, Social, Thoughts

  Design In The Wild: Vineacity - an interesting take on the display of public reputations

  03.19.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  A colleague at work recently pointed me to Newsvine’s concept of “vineacity.” For them, “vineacity” is a quantifiable measure of your behavior on and relationship to, the Newsvine community.
  That behavior boils down to 6 key metrics that get represented as branches on a, you guessed it, vine. These vine icons, concisely denoting varying degrees […]