NextBillion.net

  NextBillion.net brings together the community of business leaders, social entrepreneurs, NGOs, policy makers, and academics who want to explore the connection between development and enterprise. Their goal is to identify and discuss sustainable business models that address the needs of the world’s poorest citizens.…

AIGA Center for Brand Experience

Creative directors, market researchers, brand strategists and experience designers built the AIGA Center for Brand Experience in order to pool their knowledge and skills to educate the business and design communities about building successful and innovative brands. Go to website

Sensors and pixels everywhere

Anatole Gershman, global director of research at Accenture Technology Laboratories, interviewed about Accenture’s vision for the future of technology, which includes interactive grocery carts and the ability for your wardrobe to communicate with stores. Read full story

Television reloaded [Newsweek]

It’s a transformation as significant as when we went from black-and-white to color—and it’s already underway. The promise is that you’ll be able to watch anything you want, anywhere—on a huge high-def screen or on your phone. Read full story

Television gets a mobile home [The Guardian]

Mobile TV has been talked about for ages, probably since the first mobile phone with a colour screen became available and certainly since the launch of 3G, the faster networks that allow video to be accessed at a reasonable speed. Now, Orange has announced a…

MoMA’s minimalist baroque [Praxis]

Yoshio Taniguchi’s project for the expansion of the Museum of Modern Art is the fifth major reorganisation of the institution in its 75-year history. It embodies both a departure in scale and an organisational and stylistic reinvention that will surely set the character of the…

A case study on Yahoo! usability

Yahoo’s multiple business units, each containing decentralised user experience teams, have a natural tendency to design different solutions to similar problems. Left unchecked, these differences would weaken the Yahoo! brand and produce a less usable network of products. This case study describes a project that…

Strange days on planet earth [PBS]

Around the globe, scientists are racing to solve a series of mysteries. Unsettling transformations are sweeping across the planet, and clue by clue, investigators around the world are assembling a new picture of Earth, discovering ways that seemingly disparate events are connected. Crumbling houses in…