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And instead of requiring his employees to spend hundreds of hours of their time developing products, Fried obsessively controls the scope of projects. One key to his “Getting Real” approach (see below) is scaling back the number of features on a product so that it isn’t bogged down in unnecessary bells and [...]

Another Adaptive Path presentation, this time on building customer engagement:

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Smile and kiss your right to privacy goodbye (according to David Byrne)
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Themes into Imagery

“ridcat” is a project that visualizes political speeches “from literary imagery to actual imagery,” producing a cloud of iconic photographs. The transformation is fascinating both in its products and through its process - a psychotherapy technique called Regression Imagery Analysis.
http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2006/06/18/ridcat-interview/

SLOW MAN Covers

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Interesting to see the different themes targeted by the jacket designers in the UK, Italy and Russia, the US, France and Germany.
I think I like the British version best - the no-frills work/prison shirt patched and stained is a good metaphor for [...]

PhotoSynth

Some cool geekery going on at Microsoft Live Labs - they have developed an application called Photosynth which builds a 3D virtual world out of linked still photographs - if anyone has seen the Michel Gondry video for LIKE A ROLLING STONE, you’ll know what I mean.
The idea of integrating personal images with those of [...]