My wife and I went to Disney World over the Christmas holiday. We went to two of the four main parks. It's crazy how easy everything was from the tickets to the parks to the rides, etc. Everything had a purpose. Don't get me wrong; we have Six Flags here in Atlanta. Six Flags (in my opinion) definitely has better rides. It just doesn't have a "We care about you" feeling. It doesn't feel clean like Disney does. It's almost like they have a giant duster that goes over the whole Disney park that makes it shine like Whoa! Something about Disney makes every ride (even the transportation) feel like an experience.
It reminded me of the purpose of UX or User-Experience. Design everything with purpose in mind. Retain your customers because you had them first in your mind, not yourself. Walt Disney was a beast at this, and it shows throughout every park, ticket, employee and experience you have. Think about that next time you start a project, design or website.
Continue readingAs an account manager here at eyespeak I live within the tension of tasks vs. relationships. It's my job to make sure the tasks get done while at the same time building relationships with the client as well as the designers and developers doing the work.
Continue readingWater powered jetpacks? Yes. Thanks, Benj.
Continue readingAs a freelancer, I was a horrible self-manager. I admit it. I didn’t want to track my time, do billing or work on projects that I thought were difficult. I’d get so overwhelmed by everything that I wouldn’t get anything done. I’d procrastinate. Horrible to admit, I know. Working with the talented managers at eyespeak has freed me up to do what I do best—design. Now, very rarely do I get caught up in the trap of perfectionism. Here’s how we do it:
Continue readingCrossfit has expanded to a huge, global community over the past five years. That expansion has also fueled the already intense competitive nature you hear everyone talk about in their gym or box. If you visit crossfit.com (the HQ site for daily workouts), you'll find threads of people posting their best times and talking the occasional healthy smack talk.
Continue readingLets be honest, who wouldn't want Morgan Freeman to narrate their life story? I think Benj is one of those people. The man is a voice of a generation.
Continue readingLast week, I read Jade's blog on constraints and creativity which really got me thinking about how this principle applies to the work we do here. How do we turn business objectives into stuff. Thus, a challenge was born.
Continue readingLast Tuesday, Foursquare launched its second iOS app—Foursquare for Business. Originally, the Foursquare app is used to "check-in" at various places and collect points, prizes and badges—you can even get coupons! Although it's gained respectable popularity since its 2009 launch, the privately-owned company hasn't generated as much revenue as they'd desired.
Continue readingJade has had Fiction Family Reunion on repeat since it went up on PureVolume last week. Well, the record officially dropped Tuesday, but Jade's copy arrived a day early …and she was jazzed. We think you will be too once you give it a spin!
Continue readingMany of us began our weeks by registering for yet another social media platform. In case you missed it, Vine was just released by Twitter and allows users to post six-second video clips to a layout very similar to Instagram's. It's hard not to see this as Twitter's one-up to Facebook's acquisition of Instagram...which was hard not to see as Facebook's one-up to Twitter.
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