It may seem anachronistic to still be storyboarding by hand, but in the recent CBS News interview excerpted below, Director Ridley Scott shows the multifaceted benefits of storyboards (and by extension, other types of design sketches) that carry through to the bottom line. Here’s a Ridley Scott storyboard sample from his latest movie, Napoleon: Based […]
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Right now, we are witnessing a gigantic refocusing of publisher and tech interest in artificial intelligence, thanks to the success of new AI platforms like openAI and Stable Diffusion. For these platforms to work, they need data to create language models. Lots of data. As a publisher, I fear that Google Play Books may become
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A startup founder recently reached out to me and asked a classic question related to Lean product development (including Lean Startup and Lean Media): How do you get feedback for something if you don’t have users or an audience? My answer: If you just seek feedback (rather than using early adopters as the core of
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When I first started thinking about creating a lean framework for media content, I wrote some blog posts about Lean Media. As I began to prepare the Lean Media book, I gave a few presentations for which I recorded some simple videos. Recently, I decided it was time to update the Lean Media video content
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Earlier this month I travelled to Austin, Texas, to attend the Independent Book Publishers Association Publishing University conference. It’s great for up-and-coming indie publishers, not only because of the educational sessions and workshops, but also because it’s a chance to see what other indie publishers are doing. The event is capped by an ceremony for
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Today, Lean Media received an endorsement from John Maeda. John is Head of Computational Design & Inclusion at Automattic (the creators of WordPress) and also has a lengthy career as a scholar, author, and thinker about design-related issues at MIT, RISD, and KPCB. If you haven’t read it, I urge you to check out John’s
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