Christian Valentiner

I’ve noticed some successful services from recent years are already well ahead of the curve on the tempering experiences of the awesome utility of their products with flourish that render the intelligence instantly more approachable. Citymapper immediately springs to mind. The travel planning app knocked all forerunners out of the park with incredible sophistication of information integration, but interestingly feels much more like a toy than the utilitarian way-finders that preceded it. The beaming smile of the loading screen, the bizarre but carefully considered characters for each c…

Experiences that engage the emotions (even on the level of a microscopic moment of interaction) will make for experiences worth sharing and recommending — word-of-mouth being the frontier for growth for brands in a post-traditional marketing world. Sur…

ter, and more c…ommon belief that we can work smarter, faster, and more creatively when we draw our ideas, and over our common goal to eliminate the unfortunate reliance on PowerPoint as the tool to formulate and commun…