Posts Tagged ‘Media Lab’

I recently spent the day at MediaLabs to understand how Javelin’s client Bank of America is experimenting to find the next series of financial services breakthroughs, and came away stricken with all the possibilities. While Javelin’s research is all about taking careful aim at a particular problem or opportunity, the MediaLabs approach is something that [...]

The Media Lab is at the forefront of hybrid methods in research, but what we see is a bit strange since it appears on the surface to be similar to product development. The researchers prefer to build first, and ask questions later.  This is deceptive, since it may produce artifacts that appear to be useful. The [...]