Quotes
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Interaction Design
I really appreciate this definition of interaction design. As a producer, it gets me to think about creating an selling an experience as a product or service. > Interaction...
Tinkering
> Tinkering is what happens when you try something you don't quite know how to do, guided by whim, imagination, and curiosity. When you tinker, there are no instructions,...
The challenge of for-profit platforms
> For all our talk about the social web, what we're very often sharing on for-profit social platforms amounts to nothing more than narcissistic rumination. * Jimmy Wales [http://prospect....
Simplicity
> Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. – Steve Jobs...
Steve Jobs Sold Solutions, Not Hardware
I love this quote. It teaches me that I should always focus on selling the benefits, not the features. > What we were selling was solutions, not hardware and...
Shaping How Content is Made
> Spreadability is not just about viral videos, it can also be a public apparatus where people help shape how content is made.[1] @henryjenkins [https://twitter.com/henryjenkins]...
Bake Your Marketing Strategy Into Your Product
> Great companies have marketing intentionally built into the DNA of their products. YouTube's video sharing, Groupon's group buying, Method's stunning packaging, Dropbox's shared folders, Kickstarter's crowd-funding. Maybe you...
Steve Jobs and NeXT
Incredible footage of Steve Jobs while at Next computers....
Answering life's questions through research
Most of life's questions can be explained using one of these six methodologies: Case studies: * Focus groups * Interviews * Surveys * Experiments (Independent Research) * Behavioral Tracking / Monitoring...
Digital music: production, distribution, and consumption
I like this quote because it helps me understand the trade-off music will experience as it transitions from an analog medium to a digital one. > It could be...
Digital theory: Theorizing New Media
I'm reading a few books on new media, including Digital Theory [1], and I thought these quotes were interesting. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In Western cultures, people used products to help...
The role of a product owner
> Writer Jonathan Swift observed, "Vision is the art of seeing things invisible." The product owner is a visionary who can envision the final product and communicate the vision....
Everything is a Remix
"Dazed and Confused", "Stairway to Heaven", "Bring it on Home" might not be as original as you think....
Don't start from scratch
My thesis advisor gave me this and I really took it to heart. I guess what I love about this quote is that it can be applied to...
The challenge with digital music today
This quote is fantastic. It keeps me thinking that in the old days, pre Internet, the obstacle every music listener faced did not have enough money to purchase...
On being a DJ
A few of my favorite quotes on being a DJ. Focus > Focusing on doing one thing 100%. Too many ideas confuse people. – DJ Nu-Mark (2004 [http://www.freewilliamsburg....
If it ain't broke
> If it ain't broke, but it cost a lot of money, fix it....
Think Differently
> The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche,...
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