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[awesomeness] is working with your heart
July 2nd, 2010
do you understand what your work means? do you understand what you’re doing? are you a product of your circumstance or are you a creator of it. welcome to design thinking 101.
Jon Kolko-Keynote: My Heart is in The Work from Interaction Design Association on Vimeo.
In 1900, Andrew Carnegie quietly declared that his “heart is in the work”. This talk will examine our ability to affect change at the intersection of experience, behavior, meaning, and culture, and will emphasize our responsibility to approach our work with philanthropic enthusiasm that would make Carnegie proud.
JON KOLKO-FROG DESIGN
Jon Kolko is an Associate Creative Director at frog design. He has extensive experience in the professional world of interaction design, working around complicated technological constraints in order to best solve the problems of Fortune 500 clients. His work has extended into the domains of consumer electronics, mobility, supply chain management, demand planning, and customer-relationship management, and he has worked with clients such as AT&T, HP, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Ford, IBM, Palm and other leaders of the Global 2000. The underlying theme of these problems and projects was the creation of a solution that was useful, usable and desirable. He is the author of the text Thoughts on Interaction Design published by Morgan Kaufmann, and he sits on the board of Directors for the IxDA>
Tags: Design Thinking, Frog Design, Jon Kolko, Love what you do, work with your heart
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[awesomeness] is in harnessing the cognitive surplus
July 2nd, 2010
this is the century that the picture not only speaks a thousand words, but when each word also paints a thousand pictures. and it’s a good thing. insightful, brilliant, hilarious, as always.
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Tags: Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus
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[awesomeness] is next-gen tech April 22nd, 2010
I wrote some time ago; that Microsoft’s next big thing will be its evolution as a gaming co. The value its XBox division can add – especially with stuff like Project Natal (below) in the pipeline – will likely supersede the value of its Office and Windows businesses combined in another 5 years.
Project Natal, along with Apple’s own touch and gesture-driven computing, is set to redefine the way we work. The computer, you understand, has so far been conceptualized as evolving avatars of typewriters. You sit at a desk, you work. This hasn’t – hadn’t changed for a very long time. Even laptop computers merely gave the same structure greater mobility.
The iPad is the first real computer (almost-computer? It’s going to replace the Macbook Pro I’m typing this on sooner rather than later) designed with a completely different assumption for how you seat yourself, how you work, how you think. And that’s what’s so interesting about it. There’s more interesting things going to happen over these next few months, with iOS and of course, iPhone 4.
Redefined form and a redefined interface; never-before connectivity and the cloud. Awesomeness is in, the future’s a fascinating place to be.
Tags: apple, awesomeness, future of tech, Gesture, iPad, microsoft, personal computer, Project Natal, tech, Technology, Touch, typewriter
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