Ideas & Culture
Your phone is now your credit card and your cashier.
How can I tell if someone is going to be a good strategic thinker?
"I don't remember being forced to accept compromises, but I've willingly accepted constraints." - Charles Eames
I will tell you without hesitation that interactive TV (iTV) is here today - we've just been looking at the wrong boxes.
While it's impossible to know exactly which forms of 3D will become ubiquitous, it's near-certain that 3D experiences will become commonplace and widespread.
People are willing to go through the dark, dangerous cave, fighting monsters and digging through the dirt just to find the gold.
Many of today's top companies are so fixated on their competition that they forget to focus on their single most important competitive advantage: their strengths.
The oldest Method-designed websites still live on the Web.
In our current world of un-conferences, regular meet-ups, and foo-camps, I easily forget about how unidirectional traditional conferences can be.
Games are changing the TV landscape by altering distribution platforms, content programming and, finally, production environments.
While distribution platforms are getting morphed by games consoles, the games themselves are becoming a source of programming for TV.
Chindogu, if you don't know, is the Japanese art of the "unuseless." It is the ultimate in Not Form Over Not Function.
How much free time do people actually have in a day to work on someone else's problem?
Americans love their cars. So what would it take for people to actually get rid of their vehicle?
If at the heart of design is the endeavor to solve a problem, then in theory, there are as many opportunities for design as there problems to solve.
Why is it that too often we see smart people defending bad ideas?
In addition to great picture and sound the next generation of Blu-ray disc players have something that is just starting to come into focus: network connectivitiy.
One of our unique challenges is to find ways to engage the audiences of our design more deeply in the process of our design.
