Comments on: Reinventing the yoyo http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/03/26/reinventing-the-yoyo/ What's going to go wrong in our e-enabled world? Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:12:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: W http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/03/26/reinventing-the-yoyo/#comment-37 W Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:16:31 +0000 http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/03/26/reinventing-the-yoyo/#comment-37 Meanwhile I was at a Stanford Design class (in Said Business School in Oxford) trying out rapid prototyping, or low-res design. What it shows is that working around a practical design with all involved (rather than the isolated "expert" designers producing a solution for people whose needs they dont understand) gets you to the real issues very fast. It's like co-creation/co-governance. We were asked to design a water storage solution for a $1/day family. Within 90 minutes we presented a customer-centric dramatisaiton of the relationships needed to make this work when there's an overabundance of designs for water storage and the problems are clearly different. They're issues of culture and financing. It was very powerful, and has major relevance to the question of how e=-services keep solving the wrong problem really well. It definitely applies to future e-services. Meanwhile I was at a Stanford Design class (in Said Business School in Oxford) trying out rapid prototyping, or low-res design. What it shows is that working around a practical design with all involved (rather than the isolated “expert” designers producing a solution for people whose needs they dont understand) gets you to the real issues very fast. It’s like co-creation/co-governance.

We were asked to design a water storage solution for a $1/day family. Within 90 minutes we presented a customer-centric dramatisaiton of the relationships needed to make this work when there’s an overabundance of designs for water storage and the problems are clearly different. They’re issues of culture and financing. It was very powerful, and has major relevance to the question of how e=-services keep solving the wrong problem really well.

It definitely applies to future e-services.

]]> By: billmelater http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/03/26/reinventing-the-yoyo/#comment-23 billmelater Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:56:02 +0000 http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/03/26/reinventing-the-yoyo/#comment-23 I eavesdropped those remarks! my son was stung by a bee at that picnic, which was held at muir beach. the yoyo-like battery charger may deter diabetes according to doc flash on the well. walk an hour a day, pedal your battery charger, whatever keeps your body in traveler mode so that it consumes energy from stored fat instead of using sugar. when I mentioned that to my son, a mechanical engineering student, he advised me to relax and take a walk. I eavesdropped those remarks! my son was stung by a bee at that picnic, which was held at muir beach.

the yoyo-like battery charger may deter diabetes according to doc flash on the well. walk an hour a day, pedal your battery charger, whatever keeps your body in traveler mode so that it consumes energy from stored fat instead of using sugar. when I mentioned that to my son, a mechanical engineering student, he advised me to relax and take a walk.

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