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26 May 2013
Hi, my name is David.
7 notes
26 May 2013
at Jo’s
Lake Tahoe
Context is of primary importance in all design. What problem are you trying to solve? Know that! Know it well! Know it first!
In reality, companies today don’t really want data. The data is just a placeholder for what they really want: insight. And, in particular, they want to communicate this insight to the right person, at the right time, in the right form.
A healthy product company is, confusingly, one at odds with itself. There is a healthy part which is attempting to normalize and to create predictability, and there needs to be another part that is tasked with building something new that is going to disrupt and eventually destroy that normality.
the same can be said for healthy humans.
(via chrisbowler)
Using data drawn from queries entered into Google, Microsoft and Yahoo search engines, scientists at Microsoft, Stanford and Columbia University have for the first time been able to detect evidence of unreported prescription drug side effects before they were found by the Food and Drug Administration’s warning system.
While careers and entire networks have been made and lost based on the mysterious alchemy of finding a hit, Netflix seems to be making it look easy, or at least making it a product of logic and algorithms as opposed to tradition and instinct.
Samir, Alex and David of Next Big Sound. https://www.nextbigsound.com/
Music makers will be fascinated with their company which uses analytics of daily music consumption. Check it out!
Of course I would make that face.
Fragels in 15. (at Murray’s Bagels)
It’s ironic when good practitioners claim that they don’t have a process. Their ego and talent blinds them to their own work methods.
Designers tell stories about how the future ought to be.
from maker’s schedule to manager’s schedule… 26 hours in meetings this week. maybe i’ll set some new tenXer goals.
