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It Only Takes One Great Question (or maybe 21) to Follow that Makes Quora Valuable
Why is mobile the future? What can we learn about the failure (for now) of Google Wave? Design: What things do you do to challenge yourself to be a better …
I just found my favourite TED video
I think I’m going to watch this video at least once a day for a week, maybe longer if the mood hits me. While the first four minutes are a …
Listening to IDEO CEO Tim Brown in Conversation with Bruce Nussbaum at the New School
In support of Tim Brown’s new book Change By Design, Bruce Nussbaum interviewed him at the New School to a full audience. While the diy mentality wasn’t explicitly mentioned, it …
Point and Click Video in 360
Looking at yellowBird, the video that records in 360 makes a photo 360 view look pretty one dimensional. With the video demo all a person has to do is press …
Double issue of Link Drop (8·14·09) & (8·21·09)
This week’s version of Link Drop was a week late and while I hate excuses there’s a pretty good one. Last weekend I was redesigning the format of Link Drop …
Link Drop (7·31·09)
This week’s version of Link Drop has a healthy does of me at the beginning. When I read about other bloggers and their exploits, sometimes I think it’s cool to …
Link Drop (7·17·09) & (7·24·09)
This week’s Link Drop is a double issue as I was preoccupied with being in SF last Friday. For this post I combined the best of what I found in …
Link Drop (7·10·09)
July is here and with that comes the Tour de France. I’ve found a number of bike and tour related stuff that is shows the sport in perhaps a slightly …
Link Drop (6·26·09)
Ok, this Link Drop is even too late for my liking… But it’s better to publish it three days late as opposed to not posting it all or doing a …
Link Drop (6·19·09)
This week’s edition of Link Drop is a bit lighter than usual. The summer is supposed to be less busy but that doesn’t seem to be the case and in …
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DesignNotes is published in NYC by Michael Surtees. Michael tries to explore people's daily experiences and observations with design. Recently he shifted from being the Principal and Creative Director of Gesture Theory to designing products at Dataminr. He can be reached at michael at michaelsurtees.com 
