Dive into the fundamentals of Web design with this clear and concise guide
There’s no hard science in creating the absolute best design, but there are rules and guidelines that will lead you towards better results. Carefully studying things like form, typography and color theory will get you far in the long-run, but this “Crash Course” by designer Saeid Fard is one of the clearest short-form guides we’ve ever seen, and so we couldn’t help but highlight it for everyone else to see. If you’re interested in learning more about design, and if phrases like white space, readability and kerning confuse you, head on over to the link below: ➤ A Crash Course in Information & Visual Design h/t: GA London, Image Credit: Thinkstock
Innovation
While something novel is often described as an innovation, in economics, management science, and other fields of practice and analysis it is generally considered a process that brings together various novel ideas in a way that they have an impact on society. Innovation differs from invention in that innovation refers to the use of a better and, as a result, novel idea or method, whereas invention refers more directly to the creation of the idea or method itself. Innovation differs from improvement in that innovation refers to the notion of doing something different rather than doing the same thing better. Inter-disciplinary views[edit] Society[edit] Due to its widespread effect, innovation is an important topic in the study of economics, business, entrepreneurship, design, technology, sociology, and engineering. Innovation is not only a modern phenomenon. Business and economics[edit] In business and economics, innovation is the catalyst to growth. Organizations[edit] According to Peter F.
processPhotography - Introducing Complexity
Most of the things we normally have to deal with understanding are complex, fuzzy, messy, changing, and in fact poorly delineated. We don't actually know where the boundaries of them are, let alone being able to make clear questions about them. We spend a lot of our time as ordinary humans navigating through complicated situations with one another that require constant negotiation, and constant new attempts to understand. Brian Eno Complexity provides a conceptual framework with which to view the world. Through it, we acknowledge that we are surrounded by things which are dynamic, changing, entangled, and interconnected. Complexity is an emerging transdisciplinary field of research that studies complex systems. Complex Uncertainty Complex systems are open, which means they depend on and contribute to their environment. Gershenson and Heylighen present two examples to illustrate the point, the first is Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. rabbit-duck illusion More is Different Bottom Up
"METADESIGN" by Humberto Maturana
Humberto Maturana Human beings versus machines, or machines as instruments of human designs? The answers to these two questions would have been obvious years ago: Human beings, of course, machines are instruments of human design! But now days when we speak so much of progress, science and technology as if progress, science and technology were in themselves values to be venerated, there are many people that think that machines as they become more and more complex and intelligent through human design, may in fact become alive so that they may supplant us as a natural outcome of that very venerated progress and expansion of intelligence. Also many people seems to think that evolution is changing its nature so that technology is becoming the guiding force in the flow of the cosmic change in relation to us. * Living systems. Conditions of existence. In this sense living systems are machines. Domains of existence. The medium. Human beings. Languaging. Identity. Emotions and rationality.
Innovation butterfly
The Innovation Butterfly is a metaphor that describes how seemingly minor perturbations (disturbances or changes) to project plans in a system connecting markets, demand, product features, and a firm's capabilities can steer the project, or an entire portfolio of projects, down an irreversible path in terms of technology and market evolution. Origins[edit] The metaphor was developed by researchers Anderson and Joglekar.[1] It was conceived as a specific instance of the more general 'butterfly effect' encountered in complexity and chaos theory. How it works[edit] The innovation butterfly arises because many innovation systems are made up of a large number of elements that interact with each other via several non-linear feedback loops containing embedded delays, thus constituting a complex system.[2] Complex systems, in domains such as physics, biology, or sociology, are known to be prone to both path dependence and emergent behavior. See also[edit] References[edit] Jump up ^ Anderson, E.G.
Reality Roots
Emergence, the Phenomena: The phenomena of emergence, understood in the every day world of human inhabitance, is defined as a constrained generated procedure. But what pray tell does that mean? Science has come to recognize the phenomena of emergence with more interest over the past two decades, but as of this time in the advancement of science there is no organized scientific discipline established. The Santa Fe Institute-- New Mexico, has been in the forefront of this endeavor, notably John H. Holland and his research on complex adaptive systems. No person need be a rocket scientist to recognize that there is a multiplicity of things in the world and that these many things are diverse in their nature, complex in their makeup and related in their activity. The human inquisitive nature of man, in pondering these observations, has stimulated the study of how and why such diversity of things relate in their activity.
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17 Location-Based Marketing Tips To Drive Word of Mouth & Referrals
Note from Lee: When I heard from Aaron Strout that he and Mike Schneider were writing a book, Location-Based Marketing for Dummies, I knew it would be a great resource. We often do book reviews here on Online Marketing Blog but Aaron and I decided on this format instead, focusing on specific tips and tactics you can use today. Writing a book takes a lot of work, but with the work is done, it’s satisfying to look back and read all the content that got created. One downside to writing a physical book, however, is trapping all that content between two covers, especially for anyone that decides not to read the book. Rather than let that happen, we are unlocking 17 of the best tips from Location-Based Marketing from Dummies. Before diving it, we should probably start by explaining what location-based marketing is. Now that you have a little bit better sense of what location-based marketing is, let’s dive into the tips. What location-based marketing tips do you have for businesses?
