Creating Objects That Tell Stories

This should be the goal of everyone of us. Create objects (products) that tell stories to those who use them. We should use the design to communicate and share the experience with the users. At least this is what I think :)

Enjoy a talk from Yves Behar at TED.

Béhar’s designs and creative positioning are at work in diverse areas as fashion, lifestyle, sports and technology, for clients such as Birkenstock, BMW's MINI, haasprojekt, Herman Miller, Hewlett Packard, Hussein Chalayan, Microsoft, Nike, OLPC, Philou, PUIG and Toshiba.

Source: Wikipedia

Real World Web Standards from Standardzilla

Today I discovered a great blog/site - Standardzilla - which seams to be a great resource if you are looking to educate yourself. I think it is really necessary to have a basic knowledge of the Web hygienics in order to make the Web a better place. Enjoy the presentation (yes it is a long one) and make sure to visit the site for more info.

I Can't Get This Song Out of My Head - Telepopmusik

Télépopmusik is a French electronic music trio. The group’s first album was Genetic World, and several singles from the album have been released since. The group’s second album, Angel Milk was released in 2005. Télépopmusik consists of musicians Fabrice Dumont (bass of the pop band Autour de Lucie), Stephan Haeri (also known as 2 Strike for his solo projects), and Christophe Hetier. Most of the vocals are provided by Angela McCluskey, formerly of the folk band Wild Colonials.

Source: Last.fm

Kill Your Presentation in 12 (Easy) Steps

After quite a while I found the time to browse around Slideshare. I found this great presentation on what you should definitely do if you want to create a lousy presentation. I felt I needed to share it with my colleagues and friends :) Enjoy!

If you are looking for great resources about making presentations I suggest you visit Presentation Zen.

Mingling, Mungling and Other Networking Activities

I am attending the NT conference in Portorož. I am not a MS guy, so this post might be a little biased. What made me come is nice little piece of software we (Marand and 3fs) provided to Lenovo in order to animate their stand.
So let's go step by step:
1) Lectures - rate 1/10
The lectures here are boring Microsoft commercials. Really, I did not hear not even one new thing. They are not promoting any innovative MS Research stuff, such as Photosynth or Sea Dragon; they completely forgot about Live Mesh. It seams that all MS has to show are SQL servers and pseudo CRM systems. Even the guys from Gartner did not really reveal anything we couldn't read already. With one word - disappointing!
2) Network and internet access - rate 3/10
How can someone organize an IT conference with such lousy web connection. It is crashing every 45~60 minutes. Just what you need if you have a network dependent demo :) At least it's pretty fast.
3) Food and parties - rate 5/10
The parties are great. The food is not so great (update: except for the Osmica party). More about the parties (and girls) can be found at Had's blog.
4) People and networking - rate 5/10
Hanged with Jure from Zemanta, Primož from Slo-tech, some guys from Mobitel and Had. Basically people I knew before. It is interesting how hard is to meet new people at Slovene conferences. It seams they are all there for the drinks and the girls; and are pretty focused on that :)

So all in all I give the conference a 3/10 and I think I will skip the next few ones.

Funky.Karaoke is on Hold

The last two weeks have been really amazing. I am fully into a couple of projects and I really can not find the time to blog. I promise I will be back soon with more interesting stuff, which is gathering in my Blog Bookmarks folder ;)

To ease the wait you can chill out with this video. Enjoy.


It is from Le Grand Bleu by Luc Besson

Morgan Stanley's March Internet Trends

The following presentation features some interesting facts about the Web Trends in 2007 2008. Stuff that is really useful are the numbers in the presentation.

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Augmented Reality Packaging - 3D View of What Lies Inside

Interesting video showing an example of augmented reality, used to reveal what lies inside the package. This would be much more useful if it would be accessible from your mobile phone, with no need to download stuff.


Am I dreamig? I would say it is quite doable. There are two basic problems to solve:

1. You would need to recognize the package - quite hard but there is already a bunch of components to reuse; don't know how good they are :)
2. A "huge" Amazon.com like database of all available packages, and 3D models of the stuff that is inside.

A solution like this could have a great buzz effect and enhance the chances of selling more. :)

Startup Metrics 101

Beeing part of a startup is definitely cool but do you know how to measure your startup success? Maybe the following presentation will help. Enjoy!

Designing The User Experience Curve