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Chipotle’s Emotional Advertising Continues with ‘The Scarecrow’

I definitely more likely to seek a Chipotle more than any other fast food chain in NYC and they continue to fascinate with their advertising strategy. Their last animated short film called ‘Back to...

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Future of e-Commerce: Virtual Glasses Shopping with the Glasses.com iPad App

I have seen technologies that have promised to bring the clothes and personal accessory shopping experience into your home through virtual reality for a really long time. First it was Tobi.com trying...

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Nest Freezes Out Customers with Latest App Update

A little over  year ago I upgrade all the thermostats in my house to Nest thermostats and have been in love ever since. But I work up in Los Angeles this morning and went to check on my house in New...

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Keyless Mobile Check-in with the Starwood Preferred Guest App

In yesterday morning’s Wall Street Journal our team got to make a little news as we announced that in a few months we will be launching a refreshed SPG app that will make your smartphone your room...

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Facebook reimagines Facebook as Flipboard?

I thought it was interesting that on yesterday’s earning call Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talked about conquering mobile with an array of single-purpose experiences rather than cramming more...

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Facebook Creates the Photoshop of App Design

  I wrote last week about my thoughts on Facebook’s new app Paper but I later found out that the Facebook Design team created a really cool new rapid prototyping tool called Origami that they used to...

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Ken Burns’ iPad app turns U.S. History into a Mixtape

  A few months ago I got a sneak preview of a new iPad app that was being created for filmmaker Ken Burns by producer Don MacKinnon and Big Spaceship.  When I saw it I thought the concept and user...

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Making Grocery Shopping Easier with Amazon Dash

The technology to build a refrigerator that scans items so it knows to order more has been available for a long time but like with most old-school industries major appliance manufacturers are really...

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Is this the next GoPro?

You can’t argue that GoPro camera have completely changed what types of videos can be shot with a consumer level camera.  Their low price point and easy to use operation have made them the favorite of...

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Can NOD fulfill the promise of LEAP MOTION?

There have been parade of devices that promise to be able to let you control your digital experience with just a waive of your hand. The most recent and notable was the Leap Motion Controller which...

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IDEO one ups Facebook by improving their interaction design tool

About four months ago I wrote about Facebook releasing a bit of open-source code called Origami which is a free toolkit for Apple’s free Quartz Composer application that which lets designers create...

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Vessyl – the world’s first smart cup

It is clear that fitness and health trackers are the next frontier for mobile technology as every day I see people wearing Fitbits, Nike+, Fuelbands, Jawbone Ups and many more. At WWDC we saw Apple...

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Ink and Slide: Adobe’s new cloud connected stylus review

Yesterday I was invited to join Adobe at Lincoln Center for their Creative Cloud event to announce the functionality that was released for the latest version of Creative Cloud. They also announced that...

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Nest reinvents smart home devices – again

I will openly admit that there are fe products I have purchased over the past year and a half that I love more than my Nest thermostats. I think their product is fantastic and I NEVER thought I would...

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Google explains why no one uses your apps

I put this video in my weekly inspirations last week but through it was worth calling out on its own after I’ve watched it a few more times and realized just how dead on this talk really is. The video...

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Apple Watch App Design Primer

If you saw any of my social media channels earlier this week then you know that I was extremely honored and humbled to have one of an incredible small number of designers who was asked by Apple to...

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MIT Combines All Your Screens Into One Experience

MIT continues to push a lot of really interesting digital innovation out of their Media Lab over the past few years. Their latest creation is called THAW which lets you use your smart phone as a tool...

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Form – the mobile prototyping tool we’ve been waiting for?

If you have been reading my blog for the past 6 months then you know that I have been searching for a good mobile prototyping for some time. First there was Origami that was a library for Apple’s...

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RE Thinking the Smartphone Camera

HTC unveiled something really interesting at their media event yesterday in New York City – a small camera call the RE Camera. It might look like a tiny periscope but the Re Camera is actually a...

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Start prototyping your Apple Watch app now

Since the announcement of Apple Watch a few weeks ago I have seen tons of designers starting to put out comps for how their app or other popular apps could be ported to the Watch.  The only problem is...

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