By Chris Evans on August 24, 2010
In this day and age, attracting new customers in an over-crowded consumer market can take some ingenious thinking. By not just being another “me-too”, and creating a unique customer experience, no matter how small the organisation, it is possible to work within the same market but create a compelling distinction from your competitors. The following [...]
Posted in Shopping, Socialising Tagged cinema, customer experience, dining, experience, restaurant, retail strategy, supermarket
By Tom Weaver on April 26, 2010
A few years ago, something quietly happened that had a fundamental impact on the nature of higher education real estate: the average price of a laptop dipped below that of a desktop, for the first time. Mobility was finally here, and affordable for the masses. Not too long after, things became very cheap, with the [...]
Posted in Learning, Living, Socialising Tagged furniture, Living, space, technology, university
By Tom Weaver on February 17, 2010
A crucial aspect of designing space, for me, is the experience people will have using that space. All too often, this is neglected as part of the design process. We design for functions, where we should be designing for experience. One way of thinking more about creating a holistic experience is what I call 5 [...]
Posted in Learning, Living, Playing, Shopping, Socialising, Working Tagged experience, senses
By Tom Weaver on December 2, 2008
The majority of our lives are spent in a small number of places: the home, the school and the university, and the workplace. This is supplemented by a number of other places used for either work or social purposes, such as the café, shop, pub, restaurant and hotel, and those places we would rather not [...]
Posted in Learning, Living, Playing, Shopping, Socialising, Working Tagged place, time
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