“The basic premise of design research is that spending time in the contexts where people do the things that they do can inform and inspire the design process with a nuanced understanding of what drives people’s behaviour—which can then used as a foundation for understanding and exploring the opportunities for new products and services. More often than not the process leads to innovating on what already exists.”
—Imperialist Tendencies | Blog | design mind
January 2012
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“Quantum Leap Buzz is developed by CEO Joseph Budner Eldad to help analyze tweets and pick up on trends before they even reach mainstream media. Buzz is based on similar analytics Eldad helped develop for government officials to examine geo-political, world health, economic and military trends. Now, the program in beta version is free to download for anyone with a Windows or Mac computer. The continual, rapid growth of Twitter, Eldad believes that any major events and trends can now be identified from Twitter data. You can search on any subject and Buzz will scan through hundreds of current tweets and organize your query into patterns of topics and themes ranked by frequency and relevance.”
—Government’s Twitter Trend-Spotting Tool Is Now Free To The Public @PSFK
