Last year, as I was researching UGC (user generated content) I starting to observe that some physical goods manufacturers are adopting a form of user-generated content. They allow consumers to create (at least to some extent) the goods they purchase. Instead of having factories produce mass articles determined by a few producers, could factories [...]

NY Times David Pogue’s review of the Flip continues to attract a lot of reaction. See the follow up post ‘Why There Aren’t more Flips“. Funny how this little thing can create some much reaction. It’s premise is SIMPLICITY (even though sometimes it fails to deliver on that). This principle simplicity seems to the key [...]

I went to a lecture with Ellen Lupton at PNCA in Portland (great space, by the way). Lupton is a star designer and she was quite entertaining to listen to. Besides some funny insights on the perils of the design of women bras, toasters and a not-so-convincing case for luggage sans wheels, Lupton focused her [...]

Thanks for your continued participation on discussing User Generated Content at whatisugc.wordpress.com. The quarter at UW is almost done and here’s the result of my research in a 7 minute video.