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Don't trust your sales people

john@l2design.com — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:00:00 +0100

Don't trust your sales people for relaying proper user input in product development. Why would I say something like that? Anyone old enough to remember the 70's? Burnt Red and Avocado Green were reported to be the colors that the market were demanding for kitche [...]

silencing the voice of the customer

john@l2design.com — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:00:00 +0100

The customer is always right. Love your customers. The customer knows best.

We've all heard these old sayings. And to some extent they are right. Consumers vote with their wallets. They know what they want when they see it. The problem is when it comes to user input in the product development process the re [...]

ideas that spread, win

john@l2design.com — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:00:00 +0100

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Seth Godin explains with 4 easy words how to succeed.

why is Superman so underrated?

john@l2design.com — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:00:00 +0100

"Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound."

These famous words preceded every episode of the Adventures of Superman TV series. I grew up with these words and in my opinion they comprise the most remarkable of all superhero CV's. Yet, [...]

is recycling good design?

john@l2design.com — Tue, 20 May 2008 23:00:00 +0100

I saw an episode of "Penn & Tellers BULLSHIT" last night. The show was about the truths and myths of recycling. Is recycling a benefit to the environment and does it save natural resources?

Which ever view you take, one interesting fact popped up: 40% of all of the recycled trash ends up in a landfill site anyways.I [...]

get different not just better

john@l2design.com — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:00:00 +0100

While re-reading a portion of "Competing for the Future" by Hamel & P [...]

how to save the wind

john@l2design.com — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:00:00 +0100

One of the biggest drawbacks with electricity produced by windmills is that the price per Kw falls the harder and longer the wind blows. Since there is no way to regulate the output from windmills it would be nice to be able to somehow store the energy until prices are high enough.

This is an [...]

1 billion camera telephones

john@l2design.com — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 23:00:00 +0100

By the end of 2007 there will be 1 billion camera phones in existance. The sale of mobile phones with a camera have skyrocketed from 3 million in 2001 to 500 million sold in 2006. In 2006 there were sold 1 billion mobile telephones worldwide, half of which were camera phones.

Lets take a moment to grasp [...]

Steve Jobs feeling good about himself

john@l2design.com — Mon, 28 May 2007 23:00:00 +0100

Just saw a video of Walt Mossberg interviewing Steve Jobs. When asked how many copies of iTunes Apple has distributed he coyly hinted that it was at least 3 x the amount of iPods they have sold. That means at least 300 million copies.

Mossberg, the shrewd analyst he is, sayed qui [...]