Crowdsourcing

How often have you run into a creative roadblock? Or you were stumped with a problem that you couldn’t figure out? When this happens, we are usually operating under a conventional wisdom that artificially closes the door to possibility. To break the block, one need only ask for help from ever-widening circles: colleagues, community, and the crowd. Crowdsourcing is the antithesis of conventional wisdom.

Marketing Insight: The Five Principles of Web Usability

Why are some sites just so frustrating to use? To answer this question, we need to look through the lens of the user experience designer – and their cousin, the marketing director. When sites are poorly put together, it is likely that the site has violated one of the five principles of web usability.

Social Networking Integration

Have you ever considered how some words (and technologies) are so important, yet in the fullness of time completely disappear? Buggy whips, Barrel makers (“coopers”), and Telex machines are but a few examples. Not fifteen years ago, the term “ebusiness” was popular, until people figured out that there was no such thing as ebusiness – just “business”.