Creativity = Vision + Execution

It’s an old video that I stumbled upon thanks to a link on Alltop forwarded by Gordon Allan on Twitter. (…so much of what I find interesting comes along this way.)

To imagine such an evocative interpretation of the music combined with flawless execution is inspiring.  Anyway, I just loved the level of creativity, and I hope you do too.

Enjoy!

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This post was written by James Colgan on May 31, 2010

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Excitement Building - New Xuropa User Experience

It’s been a long process, longer than any of us wanted, but it’s going to be worth it and we’re getting really close now.

A new user experience design for the Xuropa Application is close…I can hardly wait!

In looking for a cool graphic for this post I came across a blog post by Magnus Revang who captured his process in his User Experience Wheel.  As well as being very cool eye-candy, it really does capture well the various aspects of what goes into designing and building a solid user experience.  It’s not just pretty pictures.

A huge shout-out has to go to some of my favorite Xuropeans.  These are people that took time out of their incredibly busy days and sat with us to discuss their experience.  They showed us how they use the application, and what they’d like to see in future releases.  Gary Dare,  Harry GriesTom HackettAchim Nohl (and team!), Susan Peterson, and Michael Sanie.  We’re very lucky to have such passionate people involved with the project that share the Xuropa vision.

We weren’t able to include all of the feedback (there was so much - so many great ideas!), but you’ll see we knocked off some pretty big items.  As we get closer to the push onto production I’ll try to post some sneak peaks.  Stay tuned…

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This post was written by James Colgan on May 26, 2010

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Social Media Marketing - For Your Edutainment (reprise)

Back in March I posted the original version of this video.   After only two months we need an update!  Thank you Socialnomics

Many of these trends are still just unfolding and their impacts are only starting to be understood.

Pretty cool…

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This post was written by James Colgan on May 24, 2010

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