Tag: design

  • Marketing-driven design

    I hate when I have to admit that someone else was right, especially when I held such a strong position for so long. For millennia (internet millennia, anyway, or at least since the dawn of software made for sale) there’s been a strong divide in many companies between sales/marketing and engineering. Marketing would seemingly promise […]

  • Giving people what they want, or swarm evolution

    With my new morning workout routine I’m exposed to too many televisions in the gym, most of which are showing news shows.  I don’t listen to any of them (if I’m on a machine that can hold it I’ll watch a video on my phone, otherwise it’s an MP3) but I’ve had the opportunity to […]

  • Infinite innovation vs sufficient suckage

    I only took one undergrad economics class but then I boosted that with stuff like Freakonomics, so I’m 100% qualified to talk about this today. Some wireless carrier ads got me thinking today.  Rogers has this data sharing plan, which, if I’m not mistaken, lets you share your data plan across multiple devices for $10 […]

  • Check out the layout: TTC Pricing

    The Toronto Transit Commission redesigned a while back, and I got a kick out of their pricing page: That was all done up in HTML, with the superscript cents and everything.  See the original here.