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Digital Life: Today & Tomorrow

Jun 3, ’11 12:15 AM

Presenting facts and figures at conferences is often dull and dry and wrapped in a manually driven, narrated presentation. Here’s a lovely animated infographic charting how our digital lives have expanded across the globe. Neo Labels does a fantastic job humanizing and contextualizing rapid growth of the connected home, mobile and social in this short video. Some key projections for 2015 (hint: think mobile)

  • Mobile web users will overtake desktop web users
  • Traffic generated from 20 homes in 2015 = Total traffic of the entire internet in 1995
  • There will be 788M internet users who access it via mobile only
  • Mobile payments will account for over a quarter of online payments

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Future of Design

May 19, ’11 12:39 AM

Last weekend, I had the pleasure of visiting the ICFF, the annual furniture fair in New York. Among the standouts? A team of young (read junior high school) kids who partnered with Bernhardt Design to revamp school desks. Not only was I impressed with their talents, I welcomed their passion and thoughtful pragmatic approach to design. Their decisions around color, materials, layout and efficiency were sound and carefully considered. Apparently, I’m not the only one who thinks their efforts deserve attention.

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Kaizen

Apr 21, ’11 7:41 AM

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iPad 2: Consumption to Creation

Mar 4, ’11 12:01 AM


When Apple introduced the iPad a year ago, industry reaction was mixed at best. It was called an oversized iPod touch that didn’t have much going for it. But because of the much larger screen size, horsepower and battery life they gave it, along with the SDK, it became a fertile playground for creativity.

Fast forward a year to yesterday’s iPad 2 introduction. As I watched the keynote, you could easily get sucked into the blazing fast dual-core A5 chip, the thinner & lighter body or cameras. If it wasn’t the hardware, maybe it was the forthcoming iOS 4.3 software, the new iMovie or GarageBand releases. If you read between the lines, these were significant but tactical executions of a greater strategy at play.

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Infographic: Got 20 minutes?

Mar 2, ’11 11:26 PM

On a good day, I take about 20 minutes to get ready for work each morning. Design student Alex Trimpe helps visualize what can happen on Facebook during those 20 minutes.

  • 1M links shared
  • 1.3M photos tagged
  • 1.4M event invitations sent
  • 1.8M status updates
  • 1.8M wall posts
  • 2.7M messages sent
  • 10.2M comments made

I have clients who would be ecstatic to see those kinds of results over a campaign or even a year. And to think all of that happens before I head out the door.

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