From the Museum of Bad UI
C’mon EA, a bit of QA won’t hurt.
How can a company remain innovative through its growth? Most simply fail – with a bureaucratic management style that thinks that innovation can be achieved by having bosses yell “be creative” at their staff; other use turnover as an innovation tool: hire creative minds, squeeze out whatever can be squeezed in, then throw away the [...]
Years ago, when I was part of an improv theatre group, we had to abide strictly by one rule: never say “no”, but rather, always say “yes, and”. The rule was meant to ensure that no-one would kill the flow of improvisation and that everyone’s effort would serve to push the skit further and further [...]
A few months ago I was writing a post on the Pheromone Lab entitled “The Death of the Mobile Website”. The basic point of it was, as the landscape of web-ready devices become less segregated between “Desktop”, “Smartphones” and “Mobile”, and as we advance towards a more continuous ecosystem, we need to learn to design [...]
In the past 6 months spent working in a Web agency, I think the term I’ve seen most painfully misused (including, quite likely, by myself) is strategy. Most people say “strategy” when they actually mean a tactic, or a scheme, or just… an idea. To help me avoid the mistake, I keep repeating to myself [...]