December 2007
24 posts
The Creative Exchange →
The idea behind CEX is to encourage you as a creative professional to develop IP from which you profit directly from ongoing sales, licenses and royalties. If you are a writer with an idea for a book you might need help from an illustrator, designer or photographer - and vice versa. Through the CEX you can locate collaborators. The site will feature resources to help you develop IP, understand...
A User's Guide To The Rules Of Prototyping
Have finally got to the end of Michael Schrage’s Serious Play which is well worth a read for those interested in how the use of prototyping and simulation can be used to drive innovation.
He wraps the book with a short ‘users guide’ to prototyping which I’ve summarised the rules from below:
1. Ask, who benefits? What is this model for?
2. Decide what the main paybacks...
Joomla! →
Joomla! is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) that will help you build websites and other powerful online applications. Best of all, Joomla! is an open source solution that is freely available to everybody.
“The customer’s perceived mean-time-to-payback, not the innovator’s...”
– Michael Schrage, from Serious Play - How The World’s Best Companies Simulate To Innovate
“An eye for an eye will make us all blind”
– Mahatma Gandhi
Smarter Homes →
Smarter Homes is a site set up by the NZ Department of Building and Housing to provide clear, independent, factual information about sustainable home design, building and lifestyle options.
“Post-industrial innovation isn’t about the design of objects; it’s...”
– John Thackara
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those that mind don’t matter...”
– Dr Suess
Whatpeopleplay →
Online store for WordandSound distributors. Labels on offer include Cadenza, Crack and Speed, and a host of others. The only bummer is that a lot of the tracks are sold as 192kbps. Come on people - 320kbps for everything please!