Recently presented with Rich Radka on Ignite Potential – Value exchange networks at IXDA 2013 in Toronto, Canada. The presentation can be found on Slideshare Ignite Potential – Value exchange networks About the Presentation: What does every successful start-up, venture capitalist and savvy designer know? It’s that “value exchange networks” have the power…
Notes from IXDA Conference: Tense Up: Creating Positive Tension. Matt Walsh Loved his story about creating tension in a Burger King campaign. The Whopper Sacrifice: If you de-friend 10 people on Facebook you get a FREE whopper. The results $244,000 friends de-friended, 35,000,000 million media impressions. They created this experience due to tension. They discovered…
My notes from IXDA Conference in Toronto: How to Design Social Experiences by Paul Adams With Social experience yo bring along your friends, interests and friend”s interests. We are building systems. Facebook is not a website, it’s a system. The amount of information being published is increasing exponentially. To filter this sea of information. People are…
Experimenting with our Makerbot. The first creation was a Deer Head from Thingaverse. Pretty much the Makerbot has lots of implications for the future of mankind. If you’ve been living under a rock? MakerBot Industries is a Brooklyn, New York-based company founded in January 2009 by Bre Pettis, Adam Mayer, and…
Attend the Bunchball Rockstar Roadshow in San Francisco. What was the roadshow all about? The Bunchball’s Rockstar Gamification Roadshow a community of experts, peers and practitioners who will share the latest innovations in gamification, exciting use cases, and best practices for achieving maximum impact in both enterprise and consumer communities.
Attended the Warm Gun 1-Day Conference on Measurable Design in San Francisco, Warm Gun unites designers & startups to learn about web design that isn’t just pretty, but actually converts! Brought to you by 500 Startups. Link to Kevin Hale Slideshare presentation My Notes from the LinkedIn Talk LinkedIn Before starting their…
Stephen Gay is a design strategist and innovation catalyst at Intuit where he leads business teams through the early phases of design thinking and identifies new opportunities for mobile and platform products. A consultant with over 15 years experience in user centered design at companies like Motorola, Sapient, and HannaHodge,…
Recently I’ve been messing around with Leap Motion. The fidelity on the leap is pretty incredible which has direct implications to the future of interaction design. What is Leap? The Leap is a small USB peripheral device which is designed to be placed on a physical desktop, facing upward. Using two…
Companies can leverage game thinking (gamification) to delight customers, increase usage and achieve business goals. The following deck is an overview of my research on the topic of gamification and game thinking. Enjoy!
I recently attend the Business Model Canvas workshop in San Francisco. What is the Business Model Canvas model? The Business Model Canvas, is a strategic management and entrepreneurial tool. It allows you to describe, design, challenge, invent, and pivot your business model.