I’m devouring any information I can find about Hello Health, which is the first consumer-centered health care service I’ve seen. One of the doctors behind Hello Health has a really illuminating blog post announcing the service and explaining why something like this hasn’t happened before now. Who they’re targeting: Our market is the 47 million [...]
The Times discusses a new milk jug design adopted by Wal-Mart and other big box grocers which cuts distribution costs dramatically. One problem, though. Did anyone try to use it? But if the milk jug is any indication, some of the changes will take getting used to on the part of consumers. Many spill milk [...]
He brought his own frustrated consumer experiences to bear in creating the business model, and eliminated many of the usual array of motor-oil choices—startup, high-mileage, various blends—from his inventory. “You get the shit out of the ground,” he said, referring to standard Castrol GTX, “or the shit made in the laboratory that’s the perfect lubricant” [...]
Should an art museum website exist to drive more people to the physical museum? Or should it focus on emulating some of the qualities of the museum experience like exploration, curiosity, research? I strongly believe the latter, though I understand the reasons why museum sites tend toward the mundane. Of course, my ideal museum website [...]
Apologies for the Times-ish post title. I came across an intriguing article about the abandoned Eero Saarinen T.W.A. terminal at Kennedy Airport: JetBlue’s vice president for redevelopment, Richard J. Smyth, said being the sole tenant of the Saarinen building would not have worked operationally or financially for the airline. "More and more of our customers [...]