One of the toughest business problems start-ups have is agreeing to a common goal. In corporate circles we often summarize this exercise as "creating a mission statement". The exercise is meant to provide guidance for employees to empower them to make better decisions for the company.
- Kevin Lim
One of the toughest business problems start-ups have is agreeing to a common goal. In corporate circles we often summarize this exercise as "creating a mission statement". The exercise is meant to provide guidance for employees to empower them to make better decisions for the company.
- Kevin Lim
Based on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, the idea of a design hierarchy of needs rests on the assumption that in order to be successful, a design must meet basic needs before it can satisfy higher-level needs. Before a design can “Wow” us, it must work as intended. It must meet some minimal need or nothing else will really matter.
- Kevin Lim
Based on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, the idea of a design hierarchy of needs rests on the assumption that in order to be successful, a design must meet basic needs before it can satisfy higher-level needs. Before a design can “Wow” us, it must work as intended. It must meet some minimal need or nothing else will really matter.
- Kevin Lim
How user "Fake' and the MetaFilter community saved Russian girls from human trafficking. As someone said, it's like "Taken II: Crowdsource".
- Kevin Lim
How user "Fake' and the MetaFilter community saved Russian girls from human trafficking. As someone said, it's like "Taken II: Crowdsource".
- Kevin Lim
A strategy is a set of coordinated, orchestrated, planned actions, or tactics, which will take you along a journey to reach a desired future state, over an established period of time. Design objectives are conditions or outcomes that a project must meet, often of tactical nature. User experience (UX) strategy shouldn’t therefore be confused with design objectives. This article is about how to plan and coordinate actions to organisationally achieve good UX.
- Kevin Lim
A strategy is a set of coordinated, orchestrated, planned actions, or tactics, which will take you along a journey to reach a desired future state, over an established period of time. Design objectives are conditions or outcomes that a project must meet, often of tactical nature. User experience (UX) strategy shouldn’t therefore be confused with design objectives. This article is about how to plan and coordinate actions to organisationally achieve good UX.
- Kevin Lim
We've read what it feels like to fly the SR-71 Blackbird. Now learn how to do it yourself. Here's the Air Force's official, and recently declassified, operations manual for the gorgeous, evil-looking spy plane. Who wants to go 2112 mph?
- Kevin Lim
Brazil plans to break IP rights on American drugs, music, software and movies as retaliation for its cotton subsidies. HIV/AIDS drugs came as prime example of IP retaliation.
- Kevin Lim
Reading, writing, and understanding words on a page won't cut it anymore. In a digitized world, Henry says young people need new skills that go way beyond basic composition and comprehension. Skills like play ("the capacity to experiment with one's surroundings as a form of problem-solving"), collective intelligence ("the ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with others toward a common goal"), and transmedia navigation ("the ability to follow the flow of stories and information across multiple modalities").
- Kevin Lim
Mike Cane critiques Jeff Gomez's presentation at O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing. While Jeff explains why transmedia isn't about hardware delivery services, Mike argues why the iPad is a different case by demonstrating how the batman transmedia franchise could exist on the iPad itself.
- Kevin Lim
David Ng, a biologist at the University of British Columbia, has created an launched a free/open card-trading game that uses Pokemon-style mechanics to teach biodiversity. It's a wonderful concept and it really looks like a great game, too! (via BoingBoing)
- Kevin Lim
Harvard is more than classrooms and buildings. It’s an interconnected community of people, ideas, and experiences, and we are actively pursuing ways to enhance those connections. Foursquare allows our community to engage with friends, professors, and colleagues in new ways. We also hope visitors and neighbors will benefit from the platform as it grows through use.
- Kevin Lim
"Sounds like we've been together for a very loooong time! I too see this as a new chapter, a very welcomed one. Well, this gallery would be another reason for you to stop by Singapore ;)"
- Kevin Lim
"Sounds like we've been together for a very loooong time! I too see this as a new chapter, a very welcomed one. Well, this gallery would be another reason for you to stop by Singapore ;)"
- Kevin Lim