Norman and Verganti published a very interesting paper about the meaning of innovation and its two dimension: technology and meaning innovation. This is a very interesting approach and method to understand a bit better the innovation landscape. Also, the role of user centered design and user research is discussed in relation to it.
In my experience the discussions around the difference between art and design are very interesting from an intellectual standpoint but they are also completely unable to find an answer to that very question. However, while not definitive, there’s one interesting concept from psychology that might give some interesting insight: essentialism.
Looking back at the history of agile and incremental and iterative development shows a lot of interesting points and also one very interesting truth about waterfall.
It’s interesting to see how even successful startups and companies that tried to replace business cards had success… but only in everything that’s extra. The business card are going to stay. Unless… here’s how.
The debate on Responsive, Device Experience and all the possible variations is often very detailed and rich from a technical perspective, but it’s often missing the most important point.
The login interaction paradigm is old, and it’s inadequate for the proper evolution of the web. Lots of different companies are trying to innovate in this field, including big players like Mozilla and Google. However, to make a real jump forward we need to abandon logins. We need to embrace identities.
