Many discussions surrounding the evolution the book revolve around the impending doom of the bricks-and-mortar store as it loses out to the online experience — where our measure of “online bookstore” is unmistakably Amazon, followed by mega-bookstores like Barnes and Noble. A new brood of e-readers recently released at CES heats up the conversation that [...]
Categories: design,user experience
Firstly, a (belated) Happy New Decade to all! Before the holiday season, I wrote about how poly-expertise was possible. In particular, I did some basic arithmetic: if we kept at something — say, working at a particular job — for 5 hours a day, 5 days a week, that it’d take us just over 8 [...]
Categories: generalists,poly-expertise
Tagged: generalist, poly-expert, polymath, time management
At TED back in 2004, Joseph Pine talked about what consumers really want is “authenticity” in the experience economy. Yet, even now at the tail end of 2009, we’ve barely moved beyond the basic goods industry. We only have to walk into any shop to realise we’re still suffering from the hangover of the industrial [...]
Categories: globalisation,thoughts,travel
Whilst at StatusCampMontreal today, a few of us in the Internationalization session were discussing interfaces for switching to another language. I hit upon a possibly rather silly idea where you can use something visual to help predict someone’s language. This is only a rough sketch, so it’s probably not much use as it is to [...]
Categories: design,i18n/l10n,multilingualism
Tagged: #statuscampmontreal, #statusmtl
This conversation really began a few months ago, from my self-reflective rambly essay on hippiesque, followed by my friend Stephanie Booth’s investigation into the idea of the “poly-expert”. The question arose over an informal chat: what can multi-talented or multi-skilled people call themselves that do justice to their poly-expertise, when the market seems only interested [...]
Categories: generalists,poly-expertise
Tagged: generalist, poly-expert, polymath, time management