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EverydayUX morsels (April 17th – April 22nd)

by Alex Rainert on April 22, 2009 · View Comments

in Links

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Design in the Wild: Goldy + Mac and the blending of Local, Social and Retail

by Alex Rainert on March 1, 2009 · View Comments

in Customer Service,Design in the Wild,Gold Star,Mobile,Process,Signage,Thoughts

Local + Social

This is a sign from the window of a local shop in Park Slope, Goldy and Mac. I love seeing local businesses pushing people online in an effort to get more of them into the store.

Years ago, we spec’ed out some stuff to be built on the dodgeball platform that would empower local businesses to build what were essentially local + mobile loyalty programs: your pub is empty at 5pm on a Sunday? Quickly send out a text message to all your fans (“Come by before 7pm tonight and get half priced drinks!”) It looks like Goldy + Mac has found another way to approach this. Tying this to real-time mobile alerts is just a short step away. Good stuff.

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Design in the Wild: Air Conditioner Cages and total lack of planning

by Alex Rainert on March 29, 2008 · View Comments

in Design in the Wild,Thoughts

A cage for what?

Note the bars on the inside of the cage, making it impossible to actually put an air conditioner in the cage. As an aside, I was imagining that keeping a wild animal in that cage might make for an exciting local attraction.

Guess we don't need that hatch after all

Hope you never need to use the basement hatch for anything.

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