There’s been lots of talk about design, what it means, what value it can offer, etc. There’s plenty of both navel-gazing and striking insight. However, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of simplicity or clarity. I thought I take a stab at some clarity by making my perspective on design concrete […]

This post by Black Sheep really struck a cord with me. The gist of this rant is that the IP policies of universities basically rob students of what rightfully belongs to them (their ideas, or at the very least credit for their ideas) sucking creativity out of students for the institutions benefit without doing […]

As a follow up to my list of things to avoid in your sales proposals, here’s a list of somethings you may want to avoid in your conference booth.

Avoid numbing me with marketese. I’m surround by hunderds of other companies just like yours, filled with the same toothy Herb Tarleks, spouting the same pitch, with […]

Is anyone truly surprised about the potential for privacy invasion that Google Desktop opens up?� In case you don’t know, it’s a tool that indexes every peice of digital information and textual content� on your computer� and makes it all really easy to find.�
And with the lastest version, it stores much of the […]

In thier paper on pull as a new model for mobilzing resources “From Push to Pull – Emerging Models for Mobilizing Resources” John Brown and John Hagel quote William Gibson saying “the future is already here, it is just unevenly distributed.” Quite true. In terms of pull models the movie business has done […]

Ok, this isn’t exactly design or innovation related, but I just have to say something about this
PresentationZen has a great post on one of last week’s Daily Shows where Jon Stewart interviews former DOD PR flack Torie Clarke (check out the clip, its painfully amusing).
In the Usual Suspects, Verbal Kint said “The greatest trick the […]

My appologies for the the lame title–I just couldn’t come up with anything less bad.  Regardless…
Blogrium has an interesting post on the sociology of innovation and the psychological perception factors that are conducive to fostering innovation within groups. 

I was immediately struck by the fact that this is a model of product design as a professional and multi-disciplinary practice.  Indeed […]

I’ve put this on a permanent page at http://niblettes.com/blog/terms-i-like/
New terms I like….

Ninged: falling into the chasm of usability, where despite the potential value only geeks can figure out how to use your product�
Flocked: falling into the chasms of usefullness or desirability, where despite offering an easy to use product, only geeks want to use […]

So Scott Adams has a basic formula� for a successful comic.� In order for something to be funny, you need at least two of the following elements:

Cute (as in kids and animals)
Naughty
Bizarre
Clever
Recognizable (You’ve been there)
Cruel

Looking through the funny� pages (actually, the not-so-funny pages)� this weekend I noticed 3 comics that followed his formula exactly. […]