“We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.”

This indeed makes a huge difference!

Core Values of Innovation:

• Curiosity and ability to frame open questions. Instead of ‘Do you need this feature?’ you could ask ‘What are you currently working on?’ or ‘What are your problems?’.
• Self-assessment, ability to question yourself about the direction you are heading and make adjustments along the way.
• Risk-taking and willingness to fail. Try something and accept potential failure in order to take lessons from it. If failure is a problem, nobody will try anything.
• Openess to share knowledge and thoughts. Be open to surprises.
• Patience to let things grow. Mutual trust among the team members.

Judy underlines, that it is important to address all of these points and find/grow the right balance in your environment.

Other interesting Points from the lecture:

• Maximize the potential for innovation in your team by hiring cognitive diverse people.
• Importance of attitude in people you hire.
• Support an encouraging culture in your team.
• People are naturally innovative (kids). This gets beaten out and is unlearnt by the system (school, university, incentive systems).
• Innovation is not necessarily a new product.
• Companies are making themselves efficient by measuring many business aspects. This limits them to incremental innovation, which is always based on prior work. Groundbreaking (disruptive) innovations are created in different environments.

Listen to the 60min lecture: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2052

Also check out Phil McKinney’s other Podcasts.

Goto episode 39 of FLOSS Weekly: http://twit.tv/floss39

Design your characters on the Soutpark-Studio-Website: http://www.sp-studio.de

This is me:

[2008-08-07] You can do it with the Simpsons too: http://www.simpsonsmovie.com

• http://www.phun.at
• http://phun.cs.umu.se/wiki/Phun
• Videos on YouTube showing, what you can do: http://www.youtube.com/group/phun

This phenomenon led me to discover ‘Photoblogs’. Here is a source: http://www.coolphotoblogs.com

Some Links (just click the previous-buttons on those pages):

• Daily dose of imagery: http://wvs.topleftpixel.com
• Mute: http://mute.rigent.com
• Marta: http://www.marta.com
• Accessible: http://www.accessible.de
• Aktuellekamera: http://www.aktuellekamera.de
• and many more…

http://www.vermeersch.ca (click ‘Explore’)

http://www.thecoolhunter.net

• http://www.krugle.org
• http://www.google.com/codesearch
• http://labs.oreilly.com/code

His points:

• “(…) because you can program well or poorly, and because most of it is creative (in that we don’t really know what we’re doing when we start out), my view is that we should train developers the way we train creative people like poets and artists.”
• “(…) what do people do when they’re being trained, for example, to get a Master of Fine Arts in poetry? They study great works of poetry. Do we do that in our software engineering disciplines? No. You don’t look at the source code for great pieces of software. Or look at the architecture of great pieces of software. You don’t look at their design. You don’t study the lives of great software designers. So, you don’t study the literature of the thing you’re trying to build.”

Richard Gabriels website: http://www.dreamsongs.com
There you can find more interesting articles and downloads:

• “Richard Hugo, the 20^th century poet and writing teacher wrote about the use of triggers in creative work. A trigger is any idea, scene, image, thought, sound, smell, or memory that by its ‘appearance’ in a mind causes that mind to create something. A trigger can end up being a metaphor, a reminder, a stepping stone, an association, or anything that sparks connections to the creative mind. Hugo almost goes so far as saying that all creativity is really just an ability and willingness to take up the thread a trigger provides.”

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/07/17/exploring-design-outstanding-start-pages/

and also visit links like ’50 Beautiful CSS-Based Web-Designs’ etc. in the category section.

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To research for layouts, there is also a very good book series: The ‘Web Design Index’ comes out once a year. It is essentially website-designs ordered by color. Very interesting to see the evolution over the years.