Danielle Vermeer
@daniellevermeer
Co-Founder & CEO of Teleport. Writer of Goodwill Hunting, a newsletter hunting the best pre-loved fashion finds, insights, and jobs. 11+ years of buying no new clothes.
Danielle Vermeer
Consumer Social and
Shein is to Wario as Depop is to Mario.
Danielle Vermeer • Goodwill Hunting #07: what Shein and Depop have in common
Human communication is based on the exchange of social signals that are essentially multimodal. If these signals deviated from expected patterns, this indicated problems in the communication. The pattern of deviation identified the type of problem suggesting how to repair it.
Jan P. De Ruiter • Understanding Social Signals: How Do We Recognize the Intentions of Others?
“When you look at the history of the internet,” says Jeremy Morris, associate professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, “a lot of the early spaces for communities also became places where people would either trade or barter.”
Mia Sato • Teens are hacking Instagram into a modern-day eBay
According to a 2019 report by McKinsey, Gen Z’s annual spending power in the U.S. is $150 billion.
Glossy • Meet the TikTokers educating Gen Z on sustainable fashion
Rigorous Observational Interviewing (RgOI) goes beyond what the user says or even does to find those nuggets of insights lurking behind their words and behaviors.
Hema Padhu • The art and science of great customer interviews - Part I
But the “rockstars” of any profession usually have another secret: they’ve found themselves in a situation in which they’re able to still do one job. I don’t mean that they’re not doing several things at once. I mean they’re not trying to do the work that three or four people.
Anne Helen Petersen • The Expanding Job
We’re drawn to the products that signal they’re for people like us, and in turn, will signal our identities.