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What I am reading today
How Technology killed the future. [Douglas Rushkoff] Can the global Internet survive realism about surveillance. [Matthew Yglesias] Is search changing? [Mark Cuban] Beats can’t save the music industry, but this new business model could. [Tyler Hayes] Move to Dubuque, not San Francisco. [Jim Russell] Why new features usually flop. [Des Traynor] Writing is thinking. [Sally Kerrigan] This used to be a newsroom. [Anna Clark] Google, the conglomerate: After Nest, no industry is safe. [Michael Mace] Back to the digital drawing board. [Susan Crawford] Why car and energy companies have a hard time experimenting like Google does. [Katie Fehrenbacher] -
Square, Receipts & the Experience Design
Square, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s other company is a poster child of the “experience design” as pointed out in my essay about this new design ideology, Square, Airbnb and why experience really is design. Dorsey in a keynote at the National Retail Federation conference talked about how the “receipt” is an untapped “canvas” and “publishing medium.”
“What if we see the receipt more as a publishing medium — a product unto itself that people actually want to take home, that they want to engage with, be fully interactive with? What can we build into this canvas that’s actually valuable, that’s independent of the product you just sold? What can you give in this communication channel, this publishing medium, that people want to engage with?”
It only reinforces the point of experience design ideology at Jack’s company — where others see a piece of paper, Square sees an opportunity
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Tony Fadell on why he sold Nest to Google
Tony Fadell, the father of the iPod and the co-founder and CEO of startup Nest Labs, wants to get back to doing what he does best: being a designer. That’s one of the reasons why Fadell and his team have sold Nest — their young startup that makes smart thermostats and sleek smoke detectors — to Google for an eye-opening $3.2 billion, or roughly 5.8 percent of Google’s total cash.
In an interview with Gigaom following the announcement of the deal, Fadell told us how he wants to refocus on designing product experiences instead of spending his time on scaling and infrastructure — something that’s long been at the core of massive Google. It’s certainly “not about laptops and phones,” joked Fadell; it’s more about a marriage of hardware, software and services, he explained. And the deal has been under discussion for a long time, he noted, Sergey Brin was
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