Here are some of the things we are reading in the office this week…
- Clay Christensen’s Milkshake Marketing has a useful take on understanding what your product is “hired” to do. More on jobs-to-be-done from The Critical Path.
- Recommended reading: Thinking, Fast and Slow by noted behavioral economist Daniel Kahneman.
- The Solve for X site implements a take on Metro style panels. Not bad for a Google backed forum.
- Kayak.com recently went live with a redesign, it’s worth checking out if you haven’t already.
- The recently released Clear iPhone app has an innovative, “buttonless,” take on UIs for task lists.
- Stephen Turbek considers the utility of design patterns.
- Sam Ladner compares academic and corporate ethnography. A rather lively, yet civil, debate follows in the comments section.
- Designer-friendly guidelines for Android App design, worth a bookmark for designers of phone and tablet apps.
- Some great articles from Bjango about crafting pixel perfect visual design.