Topshop London
Simple usability advice here, from a casual observer.
I was sitting down in the shoes section while the girlfriend dissapeared and found herself some comfy plimsoles and notices people using the staff area door on the left here. The access panel (click through image to see notes) is about 1/2 a foot lower than the […]
I am a big fan of the Amazon recommendation scheme they have in place on the site which automatically recommends new products for you to try based on products you have already bought.
This works great for books, and I have found myself checking out the reviews of recommended books and even buying them. Bonus! Music […]
driveway
Generally speaking I walk past this driveway on the way to and from work. I always find it fairly strange how these people managed to build this driveway without wondering how they get into their house.
The driveway is large enough to park two cars with a nice bit of room to get in and out […]
The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO’s Strategies for Beating The Devil’s Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organisation, by Tom Kelley and with Jonathan Littman.
IDEO are world leaders in their field. They are essentially an Industrial Design Consultancy with numerous offices worldwide and have a unique view on how to solve real world problems with […]
IDEO Method Cards
These are the latest addition to my design book collection. They were posted on the 13th in California and arrived at my door on the 19th.
The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life by Benjamin and Rosamund Stone Zander is the latest paper based factual adventure that I have partaken in. The reccomendation for this book came through Tom Kelley who mentioned one of the chapters within his book “The Art of Innovation.” After becoming intrigued within the type […]
I have read an article in Business Week recently titled “Keeping Your People Pumped.” It’s writted by Jack and Suzy Welch and they have some great points to make. Within the article, they cite that there are four important factors to keep you motivated within the workplace, aside from financial.
Recognition
Celebration
A Clear Mission
Balancing Achievement and Challenge.
Recently, […]
Books come in all shapes and sizes. Pretty much anyone in the world knows what one is, and most people know where to get one. Libraries around the world house vast amounts of books and although the Nazi’s burned a fair few, plenty more have been published since then. In fact, 300,000 new books are […]
Many of us rely on our intuition to help guide us through every day life. This book delves into how much we can use our intuition and how much it can be completely wrong about a whole lot of things.
David Myers’ book is split into three main sections. The first is the powers of intuition, […]
“A good workman never blames his tools.” That’s how the saying goes anyway!
I may not always like the work i have to do, and there is a time in everyone’s working lives when they feel a little less motivated than usual about the promise of going into work to do what they have been […]
The UK government has been rolling out the Chip and Pin system over the past few years, after it seems much of the rest of Europe has been using it for decades. There is a lot riding on the new Chip and Pin system, and within the first few months of the introduction of the […]
Starting to learn about such a broad ranged subject like psychology, you need a book which can convey the basics of an idea as well as going into a little detail at times when it is required. A book which takes some of the basics and explains them enough for you to understand them and […]
The simplicity of the remote control means you can control something from a remote distance. The technology behind the little devices is genius, but how well do the controls convey an easy approach to operation?
The first remote intended to control a television was developed by Zenith Radio Corporation in the early 1950s. The remote — […]
It’s not very often that I am captured by a book that I would actually class myself as addicted to it. I believe that it takes great content, a great writer, an interesting sway of dialogue and it also takes an interest in the subject. For me, all of these virtual boxes have been ticket […]
Thoughtless Acts is a relatively new little book from Jane Fulton Suri and in partnership with IDEO. Jane Fulton Suri is worldwide Director of Human Factors Design and Research at IDEO, and much of the content for the book has been attributed to a life long view of the world, and taking note of the […]