Some years ago I gave a presentation on service development. One of my slides had a diagram visualizing the idea of modularity. I redrew from Joseph Pine's book Mass Customization. I think the image summarizes the six concepts excellently!
Aarni's personal notes on design
Customization is popular. People personalize t-shirts, mugs, beer mats, and so on. I customized a wristwatch at www.fewsome.com.
I chose the watch parts and colors and added my own dial image. The end result is an interesting combination of hard and soft elements.
There has been a lot of buzzing around with products that use social media content. The products are not limited to the virtual world. I came upon a service, TweetNotebook that prints custom notebooks from tweets.
The publishing process couldn’t be simpler. Just enter your Twitter username in a box, select the cover color and text, preview and pay. In a couple of days you’ll receive a 320-page notebook with a different tweet at the bottom of every page. The tweets are randomly selected. If you don’t have that many tweets available, the application will use same tweets repeatedly. At the moment the books cost €12 each, plus shipping.
I ordered several copies of my notebook. I’ve used them as business gifts.
TweetNotebook has been developed by a Belgian interactive agency Boondoggle.
