It's a crisp clear Swiss winter day. Geneva looks beautiful in the pale sun. That sun, which feels like a slowly failing 20 watt bulb, is the second clearest sign I'm a long way from the New South Wales I left behind on Monday afternoon. The clearest sign is that it's -2°C here, which i...

Joseph Pine and James Gilmore noticed this thing they called the Experience Economy. They think we’ve moved beyond purchasing mere goods and services - now, we can purchase “experiences” (hence, the experience Economy). In their newest book, they blend the idea of experience with s...

Or: why the internet can be sweet for watching sports. Also: how easy it is to screw it up. I’ve recently become rather addicted to web video, but not in the viral/YouTube sense. In fact, I hardly ever look at youtube without a recommendation from a friend. But with Hulu, Netflix, and iTunes o...

Right? Actually, it just may be. The always inspiring Idris Mootee at Idea Couture shares three design principles to creating things that people love: Making great products that people love is pretty simple. It all comes down to three things: A simple user experience, design the product around its s...

I really don't have to add much to this post as the notebooks speak for themselves . A lot of great thinking here about process, design, creativity and different ways to solve problems. If you're smart you'll bookmark his Flickr set , share it with others and try to hire people like Paul. And damn, ...

A while back, a couple of friends in Atlanta called to ask if my buddies and I could help them with a site they were launching called Riding Resource. Word has it, it’s hard as hell to find a quality place to ride horses today despite the omnipotence of Google. After a load of hard work, inclu...

Well, more or less. Not quite the full platform imagined in that post - or this - but a small step in that direction. I'm currently teaching a two-week class at University of Technology Sydney, on the Master of Digital Architecture degree. As per the 'street as platform' idea, we're creating a multi...

By Felice Bochman, special to The Content Wrangler “Humans are wired to put things in buckets.  We have an innate need to create categories and sort things into them.”—Richard Hamilton on content delivery, The Content Wrangler, September 2008 Many editors and other language-or...

Following on from my recent 'post-occupancy evaulation' of the State Library of Queensland's wi-fi (see previous post), I thought I'd share a couple of outputs. (Thanks to Tory Jones of the State Library of Queensland for permission). One of the ideas I've been exploring relates to how urban industr...

UIE Virtual Seminar - Essentials of Effective Visual Design with Patrick Hofmann of designPH and Google Australia Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008 Time: 1:30pm ET (Please note the unique start time) You have the Visual Design skills to do a good job, but what tools or tricks can you add to your too...