nicole

…Both Tencent and Alibaba, the sponsors of these ridesharing companies realized that the next battlefield in this longstanding war between the internet giants in China is going to be mobile payments. And that the taxi companies, the ride-hailing companies are ways to spur payment value with mobile payments. So they start to kind of use these two... See more

[2:11] I keep in mind that I'm going to have less energy throughout the day and things are going to get more and more tempting throughout the day, so it's going to be much harder for me to resist things as the day progresses. Keeping these two things in mind, every single day of my week from a macro standpoint gets divided into three main parts.

The main reason we don’t create more affordances, however, is pure egocentrism. When we just say whatever pops into our heads, we may think we’re making craggy, climbable conversational rock walls, when in fact we’re creating completely frictionless surfaces. For example, I’m thrilled to tell you about the 126 escape rooms I’ve done, but my love... See more

[9:26] Morning Glory

I would advise, as an industry, to pull back from this obsession with user wants and user needs and instead to design for fun. What you want your players to feel, what is the emotional path for them to get there, and how does your software—your business product, if that's what you're building—take them along the path?

[1:18] The 3 Part Split

Even with the short films, but especially with Toy Story, they embraced the limitations of the medium and yet delivered a full solution with it, you know, they didn’t skim on emotional connections within their movies. Even when the technology was arguably inferior to both live action and traditional animation, they were able to deliver incredible... See more

A distinction that I draw is if the value of the incumbent can actually be replaced by a technology product rather than a technology-enabled product.