Josh Pitzalis

This post was originally published on the Beeminder Blog.   In April this year I began working with the Beeminder team to redesign their interface. Over three months, I tracked a total of a 167 hours towards the project. But let’s start at the very beginning.

Ankur is a music producer. The Guardian described his music as ‘Downtempo music makes for a welcome break from manic city life’. He is putting the finishing touches on his first album.

A patent only protects an idea if it is new. The only way to know whether an idea is new is to sift through existing inventions to make sure the idea hasn’t already been thought up. The process is a little complicated, but I’ll walk you through it step-by-step. I learnt the basics by attending…

Given the amount of advertising we are exposed to on a daily basis, most people now instinctively resist anything that feels like marketing. People do not like being sold to. In our hyper-connected social world, most people now hear about interesting ideas from each other. One way to sidestep the growing resistance to marketing is…