http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:04:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2011/12/game-motivates-well-being-through-financial-disincentives-future-of-gaming.html Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:05:49 +0000 StickK.com is a site that helps users commit to personal goals ranging from losing weight, to eating vegan, or becoming debt free. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/12/web-platform-unlocks-prospective-career-and-learning-opportunities-future-of-gaming.html Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:15:26 +0000 The Open Badges infrastructure offers a web platform for unlocking new career and learning opportunities by making it easy to issue, earn and display various skill badges across the web.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/08/grant-mccracken-spend-a-year-in-cambodia-doing-design-work-that-changes-lives.html Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:07:52 +0000 The first Human-Centered Design Innovation Lab is launching in Cambodia, and they're looking for a fellow who is willing to spend a year in Phnom Penh, doing everything from research, field work and interviews to design.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/08/a-farm-grows-in-mid-manhattan-headlines.html Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:46:45 +0000 Rather than allowing a work site to be defunct, a developer partners with a restaurant to start a pop-up garden.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/micro-donations-help-1000-students-get-an-education-headlines.html Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:42:36 +0000 A Seattle non-profit has used crowdfunding and micro loans to help 1,000 students in third world countries go to school.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/10/pics-the-fetishization-of-organization.html Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:26:02 +0000 A new Tumblr site is dedicated to the aesthetics of extreme orderliness.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/08/website-visualizes-airline-price-comparison-results.html Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:53:00 +0000 Simple layout changes to search queries could help airlines sell more tickets. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/07/creative-inspiration-from-the-behance-network-xxxvv.html Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:35:49 +0000 Behance is a company that organizes the creative world to make ideas happen. Creative thinkers – the people with the most ideas – often struggle the most with organization and productivity. We aim to change that.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/05/video-tina-roth-eisenberg-psfk-conference-new-york-2010.html Tue, 04 May 2010 18:16:27 +0000 Tina Roth Eisenberg, founder of influential design blog SwissMiss, shares her experiences as a Swiss graphic designer in New York, and how and where she finds inspiration day-to-day.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/08/video-mark-pesce-the-dangerous-power-of-sharing-power.html Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:19:00 +0000 Futurist Mark Pesce gave a fascinating speech at the Personal Democracy Forum last month. He explained how two different kinds of power structures (autopoietic, or self-generating, and hierarchical) will increasingly come into conflict because of their radically contrasting operating procedures. Using the recent battle between the church of Scientology and Wikipedia as an example, Pesce describes how hyperconnected, power-sharing, hyperintelligent (where shared knowledge increases the intelligence of all participants) groups chip away at the classic, top-down hierarchies of the state and other such power structures. He explains: In order to avoid catastrophe, the state – and any institution which attemptsRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/01/an-experiment-for-dealing-with-media-overload.html Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:44:08 +0000 What’s the best way to sort, wade through and make sense of the oceans of digital media that’s stored on our hard drives? Inspired by musician Bill Drummond’s experiment of only listening to music starting with B for a year, Russell Davies is testing out the same filtering strategy on a compressed scale. In order to deeply engage with new music, and learn to pay attention in a new way, Davies is only listening to music starting with the same letter of the alphabet, one letter a week. He explains: I find that unless I trick myself into paying attentionRead more...]]>