By Adam Silver - May 20, 2011
Albums, books, and other objects are being replaced by unseen data—but new ways to craft our identities are emerging, too.
By Adam Silver - March 31, 2011
The secret to design success? Invent something your customers can hack, remake, and customize—then let them run wild.
By Adam Silver - February 18, 2011
Users are in control, again. The hacker culture that dominated the Internet in the 90s (pre-AOL and Compuserve) is now returning. Top-down, corporate-owned platforms simply can't keep up with the pace of innovation set by scrappy, digitally-native startups. The result is a new crop of apps and services that are adaptable, surprising, useful and free. They grow and evolve as their user base plays with, modifies and evolves their DNA. In this way, the new breed of apps being created for the Internet is much more robust than the failed models of the past. In their clear focus on serving user needs, they point to an exciting future for users and designers alike.
By Adam Silver - June 4, 2009
I've been obsessed lately with a little site called Hunch. I got an invite from someone off some website some 21 days ago and have been hammering away at it ever since. Set to go public in a few weeks, the site is a clever mashup of Facebook quizzes, social bookmarking and the ubiquitous community-oriented website. But alas, it is so much more than that.
By Adam Silver - October 30, 2007
A recent Nokia advertisement promoting its N95 smartphone.
By Adam Silver - October 23, 2007
By Adam Silver - October 15, 2007
Welcome to the first post on Ideator. This blog is a response to the barrage of technology and design blogs that breathlessly post on the latest and greatest. We at Ideator also love the latest and greatest, but we're more interested on how these developments are impacting the way people live. Is the PS3 really all that innovative? Is anyone using all the features in their new car? What’s revolutionary and what’s just a new skin on a bad product? Where does the hype end, and where to the new ideas begin? These are the questions we will endeavor to answer.
