Do we need a new language for design?

July 26, 2009

Just stumbled across this video from frog design*, which collides all sorts of classic, squeamish conversations and stereotypes from my chosen industry. Designer Neologisms by design mind Moresco claims we don’t have the right words to express emergent concepts in design, so proposes some new ones, like “super normal” and “poptimsim”. Some days, I feel [...]

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Shoes, continued…

July 24, 2009

This just in: Amazon is buying Zappos! For my non-US readers, you’re probably thinking, Zapp-who? But fellow Americans are fanatical about this shoe-selling site. And for good reason. Back in the late-nineties, I spent a lot of time at Intel trying to figure out what would make this new-fangled e-commerce thing compelling. (You can find [...]

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Comfortable Shoes

July 23, 2009

According to recent reports in both the Washington Post and the Times, Crocs has plummeted from profits of $168.2 M in 2007 to a loss of $185.1 M in 2008. The Post quotes: “The company’s toast,” said Damon Vickers, who manages an investment fund at Nine Points Capital Partners in Seattle. “They’re zombie-ish. They’re dead [...]

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All Bottled Up

July 12, 2009

For over sixteen years now, I’ve quietly gone about the business of making products — of all sorts. There are lots of smart people coming at it from lots of directions, but stupid stuff still happens. So, I’ve decided to stop bottling up what I know, and start to share it a bit more broadly, [...]

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