Smart City Discussion
Smart Curacao talks with Gary Schwartz about smart city design and what lessons from the past that can inform our future investments.
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Storytelling & Beaver Dams: GoPro to SnapChat
Drones and Spectacles sold by camera and video merchants. There is a strange expansion of lego-snapping services in the market. Both companies are empire building, GoPro launches a Karma Drone and Snap Inc., its camera glasses. Both companies are adding
ReadFrom Giotto to Jobs: Smart Cities & Smart Design
Curacao Smart City, 2016 - "After hearing Gary speak at an international event, we ask him to keynote our Smart City launch in Curacao. He set the stage for the audience and the initiative focusing on human-first design. Gary is a
ReadDigital Doormen to Blockchain Bookings
Berlin, 2016: In a world of smart cities, smart homes and smart hotels, how can we effectively design for the human in the middle. How can be drive seamless experiences for our guests? As the our definition of digital expands
ReadMy Amazon Dash Button arrived!
After talking about impulse purchases for over 10 years, my Dash button arrived to be duly attached to my washing machine for timely one-click checkout. In measuring clicks to commerce, Amazon's app experience is four PRE-clicks to setup the patented one-click
ReadData rules Echo, Siri and Google Now
This past month, the media happily announced that Echo was "all growed up.” An astounding adulthood spurt given that Echo is mainly relegated to kitchens and has the key functionality of telling you the weather and managing your Spotify account
ReadA Mobile Trading HERO (FinTech)
Today’s millennial traders are pop culture survivors of “The Wolf of Wall Street” and the “Big Short”. Many would rather pitch tents on Wall Street than open up their wallets. These traders require some reassurance that their mobile tools have evolved as other utility,
Read6 mobile-oriented services to complement the live operator experience
Until 2015, business process outsourcing (BPO) was based on a simple math formula: outsourcing non-core services including customer call centers to more cost-efficient partners and markets to reduce spend. When technology was deployed, it was predominately committed to optimizing the
ReadInterview with Martin Cooper (Beyond the Phone)
Marty Cooper is considered the "father of the cell phone". He conceived the first handheld mobile phone (distinct from the car phone) in 1973 and led the team that developed it and brought it to market in 1983. Marty talks
ReadIOT Interaction Design (Thinkwire)
I discuss with Paddy Harrington, Architect and Designer, the evolution of Interaction Design in the new work of the Internet of Things. IoT lacks the traditional input methods of interaction design and designing. Without a mouse and keyboard—and often without
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