Mobile Lifestyle
When thinking of Mobile Service Design, we not only design intuitive (web) apps for Smartphones, Tablets or Wearables, but for an entire lifestyle. In our publication, we curate the best articles covering the Mobile lifestyle — written by people that live it.
The Dumb Thing About Smart Cities
“Humans are the invasive species,” IBM Safer Planet architect Mark Dixon claimed in his keynote address at a conference I attended recently…for Building a Smarter Los Angeles. ¶ He’s not wrong. Data from the Global Footprint Network shows that humanity needs the equivalent of 1.6 Earths to provide the renewable resources we consume. For Americans, that number is almost 4. What is more, about 50% of the U.S. population lives in only 146 of our 89,746 counties, according to the 2007 U.S. census. So our most populated areas are the most resource-strained.
Jillian Switzer5 days ago
Why learning to code is like learning to play Piano
I wrote this piece after a grueling review week of first code I ever pushed to a production system.“The last work week had one of the steepest learning curve of my life. Full of disappointments and anger. Every line of code which I thought was right, was completely changed by reviewers. The way I wrote code was to run everything. But, there is significant difference between a code that runs and a code that works. The former is a lego-style construction of pieces that (almost) run together. The latter is holistically thought through and beautifully crafted.
Sourabh Rohilla5 days ago
