Building Conversation. Open the Graph | Comprendre le Graph Facebook en 3 minutes et se l’imaginer avec 909c, social graph designers. Sephora Gives Its Shopping Experience a Makeover. Sephora is getting a little more digital. Today the beauty chain rolled out a completely updated website with Pinterest and Instagram integration, an updated mobile site, and officially launched a program that will bring iPads to the store's sales counters and put iPod touch point-of-sale devices in the hands of many of its sales associates.
“Beauty has passionate shoppers, and Sephora is the mecca of beauty” Julie Bornstein, Senior Vice President of Sephora Direct told Mashable. She describes today's updates as “Where beauty meets intelligence.” Pinterest integration is something that many brands have started to embrace, however, Sephora is taking that integration a step further. Starting today shoppers will be able to browse the Pinterest boards of Sephora employees, and see what products are their favorites.
While you're at a Sephora store you can use your iPhone to scan products off the shelves and read reviews. Digital is a huge part of Sephora’s business. The Beauty of Networks - Features. Can organizations be beautiful? That was a recent question posed by Tim Brown, CEO of design and innovation firm IDEO, on his blog, Design Thinking. His book, Change By Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation, discusses how thinking like a designer can transform the way organizations develop products, services, processes, and strategy (see our earlier article about IDEO’s work with design for social innovation).
Tim’s blog explores design thinking, and we thought we would share two recent posts about organizations and networks – what are your thoughts on his perspectives? Can organizations be beautiful? At IDEO we have been working on the topic of designing organizations for a while, most specifically the design of organizations to be more innovative. My struggle with this particular domain of design thinking has been one of aesthetics. Are there overarching design concepts that can be described as beautiful? How about networks? The Poster that Launched a Movement (Or Not) Visualize Live Tweets.