RFID packaging as a real-life eco platform
Wired have an interesting post about researchers in South Korea experimenting with semiconducting ink that would allow manufacturers to replace bar codes ...
Steve Jobs: how to live before you die
Yesterday I listened to a very inspirational talk on TED by Steve Jobs ’How to live before you die‘. By telling 3 stories from his life Steve is urging pe...
Idea for a mobile app. Strategic shopping.
Whilst wandering around an unfamiliar supermarket at the weekend (looking for Cous Cous) an idea for a mobile app suddenly hit me.
How about a store-b...
Backchannels: what’s the potential?
One of the most enjoyable things about being at SXSW this year was sitting in some of the larger and more disastrous talks and reading the tweets roll in ...
Why I love TED talks
Recently, Jeff Jarvis’ post on how the ‘one to many’ format of Ted talks is ‘bullshit’ caused a bit of a ‘hear hear’ reaction online. His point is that th...
A review of iMapMyRide for the iPhone
On the recommendation of fellow cyclist Brian Sheridan who I met at SXSW (the conference that keeps on giving) I downloaded the iMapMyRide iPhone app last...
iPhone OS 4.0: now with added evil
Hidden among the details of Apple’s announcement of the next version of the iPhone operating system last week was a nasty, snide little addition to the te...
Umair Haque is confused about the iPad
It’s been a tough month for Umair Haque. First, he conducted the world’s most boring and pointless interview at SXSWi, and now he blogs his extraordinaril...
Propagation Planning
Over the last year or so, one of the kinds of planning that I’ve been hearing more and more of is propagation planning. Propagation planning is planning t...
iPhone abroad: usability nightmare
Last month almost the entire company decamped to Austin for the South by Southwest (SXSW) interactive festival. My experience with my iPhone there was fru...
Service design goes mainstream
Reading with interest an unfolding flameup at Design for Service caused by Jeff Howard’s post entitled UX Rockstars need not apply. The gist of the conver...
Designing for collaboration: reward and reputation systems
One of my favourite talks at SXSW was by Andy Baio from Kickstarter, called Gaming the Crowd. Andy spoke about designing for increased participation throu...
We love awesome stuff: Vote for Policies
Earlier this week, Stuart wrote about viewing our competition as allies. This probably feels a little uncomfortable for a lot of people — businesses want ...
Visual note-taking is the new religion
Forget Scientology, Kabbalah or The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, the growing Movement of Visual Notetakers is where it’s at.
One of my...
Who is your real competition?
In the last two-and-a-half years at Made By Many we’ve often been asked, “So who would you consider your competition to be then?”
The question always ...
When I grow up I’d like to be more like a start-up
Justin’s ‘Agile versus Strategy‘ post has tapped an excellent debate.
One of the most interesting comments comes from R/GA’s William Charnock, who mak...
Interview: Stefanie Posavec, beautifier of literature
This is the second post in an ongoing series of interviews with ‘interesting’ people that the Made by Many crew find either inspiring, exciting, confusing...
We’re hiring
We’re looking for a few people to join us and so we’re asking about to see if anyone knows anyone. We need some creative geeky types with an obsession for...