If you haven't started following Doxopolis, I highly suggest you do so.
That is if you’re on Tumblr. If you’ve subscribed via RSS, you should subscribe to that site, too.
Dear Company or Person That @Replies Me…
I might be in the minority here, but if you reply to something I said on Twitter because it triggered a key word search you’ve got going, chances are I’m not going to look at your product.
So, what will make me look at your product? If it’s awesome and one of my friends uses it and mentions it, I will look, and probably give it a shot. Make your thing great. Make it beautiful. Make it useful. Make it… well, awesome and people will talk about it. If you’re new to the scene, let your friends use it and—just like a shampoo commercial—they’ll tell their friends who will tell their friends who will tell me.
What will make me try your product? Make it easy. If your thing isn’t easy to try, then give me some great material to check out; a good blog, some well done videos, a screenshot or two. Just because it’s complex, doesn’t mean I don’t need it. So don’t hide behind that excuse. Show me. Invite me into your story. Make me understand how much I’m missing your awesome product.
I think I’m going to have to figure out a fancy way to mount an iPad in the kitchen. I can see wanting one mounted on the cabinets to have a recipe up while cooking dinner, also having it mounted on the wall as a calendar for Heidi will be a way that we can actually both keep our calendars in sync—she likes using paper calender because it’s much easier than having to go into the living room and open up gcal to see what’s going on. Again, I think this is going to be an easy job, but I can’t wait to see what starts coming out for these use cases.
Source: instapaper.com
I’ll never tattoo my hands, but if did it’d be this.
via themadeshop – nevver: Design Observer
Source: nevver
For too long, the act of printing something in and of itself has been placed on too high a pedestal. The true value of an object lies in what it says, not its mere existence. And in the case of a book, that value is intrinsically connected with content…
…Of the books we do print — the books we make — they need rigor. They need to be books where the object is embraced as a canvas by designer, publisher and writer. This is the only way these books as physical objects will carry any meaning moving forward.
What if you, early-adopter geek fanperson, aren’t actually the target audience?
Source: 52weeksofux
