Human Truth
In essence you tell a story and connect it to something people already want to do/ truth (built on a real truth). Insights are built on human truth.
– David Droga
Young Guns vs. Old Ones The young will eat the old
Eos design inspiration
Hope this help you guys to find inspiration to your apps design: http://www.iospirations.com/
Spreading Them Things
Awareness has become more important as media and our attention fragments. So, what do you do if you don’t have the money to make a media planner blush? You have to have your idea spread.
Threewords.me was started by 18 y.o. Mark Bao and subsequently sold for an undisclosed sum. What made threewords.me so spreadable? In Mark’s own words:
I didn’t really think of it much when I created the app, but here’s what I’ve gathered from talking to a few users as well as observations!
- Biggest growth on Twitter and Tumblr as well as Facebook. Same targeted demographic as Formspring.
- Yeah, low barrier to entry. Definitely! Very quick signup.
- Biggest growth in non-tech industry people because things like this that tend to go viral are fundamentally very introverted but with an external pull (pull into service).
- Double viral loop — users are invited to answer someone’s threewords. Right after they answer, they were immediately prompted with a four-box easy signup page which they can use. Most people signed up from this.
- People promote it for you. I literally posted a link to Facebook about it 3 days ago, and it slowly scaled up from there.
- It’s fun. People like learning more about themselves from the perspective of others.
- People like it for the same “hmm I wonder” reason as Formspring, but it’s easier to use than Formspring since you don’t have to come up with a question—it’s already there.
- Curious audience demographic.
And then there’s usehipster from Doug Ludlow. As reported on TechCrunch “14K people have already signed up with little information about the site’s purpose, the first 10K in two days after marketing launch.” Yes, that’s a lot considering nobody really know what it is or does. He also made it very easy, and necessary, to share the site via facebook and twitter:
Just like in the Fork.ly model, he offered interested parties earlier beta access in exchange for inviting three friends and gave them a unique user ID, share link as well as upfront Facebook and Twitter buttons.
Your takeaway: if it doesn’t spread it’s dead.
Inspirations
Stefan Sagmeinster and Oswaldo Miranda .
Not only because they are good designers, but also because they think about creativity in a different way. They makes the creativity looks so personal and not commercial. Only the fact of having balls to face the world and do whatever they want makes me believe that there’s still life after work and creativity is not a matter of clients and briefings and in the end everything goes right.
Other influences comes from the internet. it changes as fast as the content changes on my feed readers.
Like player
A lot of information is posted on every people’s walls. Some people have a lot of friends that post things, that people react , comment and liking them. The same thing happens when you are in webpages that have the Like button and navigating in pages like Vimeo and Youtube where you are also able to say what you like or not.
missed that use to be
In the end, after sometimes, a lot of things you and your friends liked will be missed among the wall-posts.
What about to have a app to help you navigate through these contents and help you find your likes among all the things in your wall? And what if you could even see what your friends like?
The Like player will convert your facebook and your iphone in a kind of blog, fed by all your friends but only with the coolest things, only with the content people already for saw. Good for lazy times and you don’t have anything else to see.
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In the beginning the idea was only about “remembering what you like” that could be attached to Post-it Brand, but after sometime of thinking about it, adding your friends likes I think it can be bigger and requires an own app for it.
My inspiration
Where do I get my inspiration?
Sadly, I don’t really have a reliable source of inspiration. <Sadly>, because I think it’d make life so much easier if I could just turn something on, watch it, listen to it, look at it, read it, or whatever, and be inspired. But no. I get my inspiration with time, by doing research, looking at different websites, reading articles, listening to other people, staring into space, listening to music and other things that might actually happen by coincidence. If it doesn’t hit like lighting striking (which honestly, it almost never does), I normally listen to some music, or just create a mindmap and wait for inspiration to hit. If there’s an equation to getting inspired, please tell me. I’m open almost anything.
People who inspire me
My inspiration changes everytime.
At the moment it’s this:
- Morten Breum is one of the most inspireing DJs for me at the moment. I’m a fan of his style. Morten Breum Feat. Medina – Velkommen Til Medina (Live)
- My second inspiration is also a DJ. His Name is Moguai
- In Design it’s really different I check often this Site. http://creattica.com/
Mostly I inspire myself by something not by someone. 
People who inspire me
Hey,
there are 3 people that inspire me in life:
George Lois
DJ Q-Bert (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXmfleawFHM&feature=related)
Banksy (http://www.banksy.co.uk/)
Laters!
Bulldog and Shitzu
Okay, so I was explaining the feel of my bullshit generator today. I want it to be really pretentious, very “Don Draper” like. Check out this funny video…
http://www.adverblog.com/archives/004376.htm
[kənˈtrast] – iPad mag
My project is an iPad culture magazine,, which would revolve around the idea of contrast.
Contrast is at the base of perception. Contrast is what makes something stand out from the rest. Contrast is what forms opinions.
The layout itself will be based on the contrast between digital and analogue as I would like to include hand-drawn elements. I will try to explore the potential of iPad (Video, music, 360 photos, slideshows…) to create an interactive magazine that allows the viewer to have a totally new experience with the content.
Regarding the content, here are a few ideas:
- fashion editorial (theme “I’m not strange, I’m just not normal” – a photographic series exploring the topic of normality/anormality)
- Hamburg, city of contrast
- parkour (seeking for obstacles)
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