Site menu:

Links:

 

View Max Talbot-Minkin's profile on LinkedIn

About Me

I am a graduate of Columbia University ('07) and a current student at the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). I am studying Product Design and also working towards my MBA.

In my free time, I provide web design, branding, and photography services.

> View complete bio

Tags

advertising apple architecture articles bikes books business cars chicago commuter rail companies cta decisionmaking design fare collection flickr Friends funny germany glimmer GM grumbles hackintosh ID innosabi innovation iphone Japan mass transit mta munich netbook nyc Photography products rail reviews segway subway trains transit transportation travel warren berger WTC

Tag: innovation

Sockscription

Companies out there will send you socks in the mail.

The P.U.M.A.

GM and Segway yesterday showed off their new people-moving pod. It’s an interesting idea, although having it balance with gyroscopes seems a like a gratuitous application of (admittedly pretty neat) technology.
I’ve long thought it would be an interesting idea to have a shared, signalized lane on city streets for bikes and personal electric vehicles. A [...]

Choosing By Advantage (CBA)

I ran into this concept today at work that was developed by Decision Innovations with the support of the U.S. Forest Service and Utah State University. CBA attempts to improve the decision-making process by reframing problems in terms of advantages instead of attributes. Whereas attributes are a characteristic of one alternative, an advantage is the [...]