Archive for May, 2007

Idea-validation

This method I’m going to explain is great to use after a brainstorming-session. If you have about 50 ideas/suggestions on how to solve a problem, you’ll probably only need one. Therefore you need to find the best and most expedient!
If you’ve found 10 of 50 ideas which you think are usable, you should put each [...]

May 27, 2007
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That Specific Name…Why?

Me and a mate have had our newly started firm (Luciti, website) for a couple of months now. We run it as a hobby at the moment, because of the exams that we both enter these days…I’m hopefully graduated at June the 28th, no big deal
Anyway, we’ve had a lot of trouble conercning [...]

May 23, 2007
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Do you need inspiration? Let StumbleUpon help you!

Do you know StumbleUpon? I bet some of you do, but for those who don’t, please keep reading, you’ll be blessed at the end of this post.
You know, when you need inspiration or entertainment, where do you look? YouTube, Myspace, URLs you got from friends? I don’t know, but when I have to come up [...]

May 21, 2007
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ORGANIC DESIGN by Ross Lovegrove

TEDTalks are always a pleasure to watch, and I’ve seen every online talk that I could find (website).
To those who don’t know what TED is? It’s a conference for ideas, all kinds of ideas. Usually full of inspiration!
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In this talk Ross Lovegrove, a respected industriel designer, talks about finding inspiration in organic natural elements. A [...]

May 19, 2007
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Google, More Than A Search Engine

I’ve noticed that a lot of people in my network doesn’t know that Google is much more than a search engine. They use the search function and are not aware of the fact that Google offers quite a lot of different (brilliant) features!
E.g.:

blog - In these days, if you’re a marketing-guy, designer, advertiser, developer? You [...]

May 18, 2007
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Whiteboards

I think one of the greatest inventions when we’re talking idea-development is the whiteboard. I don’t have one myself but those times where I’ve been able to explain my ideas and concepts to people, and I’ve had the whiteboard as a useful tool, it has been easier for people (and myself) to understand and recognize [...]

May 16, 2007
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Choose Your Audience Carefully

I’ve been working on several projects the last couple of months. One of these projects is an internet radio, United Dj’s Radio (website).
At the beginning we didn’t know anything about the running of a radio, so we’ve made a lot of mistakes during this period of time. One of the big mistakes we did was [...]

May 15, 2007
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How To Serve Constructive Criticism

A lot of people don’t know how to serve constructive criticism, or criticism at all. Sometimes it’s hard, unless you know the person, to give accurate criticism. Some people only wants the “good” things (e.g. “it was nice that you…”), others only want the bad things (the things which actually are good; “You can do [...]

May 14, 2007
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The Importance Of Constructive Criticism!

Yesterday I witnessed a quite common situation when people get criticized. It started at school and this girl who had just presented her project on the famous German philosopher Nietzsche, wanted some critique on her presentation. I was among the 3 persons who gave her a comment, and I had been thinking of the fact [...]

May 13, 2007
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