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A RAW image is the picture that is directly delivered by the sensor. It is mostly unprocessed, and cannot be visualized on directly on a screen. It has to be transformed by a fairly complex signal processing known as RAW conversion.
To answer this question, consider the image as viewed by the end-user of a camera. A color image is an array of pixels, each characterized by its spatial position and three integer values that convey intensities in three color channels—red, green, and blue.
The image "seen" by the sensor is completely different. Each photosite, corresponding to a pixel in the final image, can see only one type of color (either red, green, or blue). This means that the signal perceived by the sensor has a single channel at each pixel. The spatial distribution of the different color channels is up to the sensor maker, but the vast majority of sensors use a Bayer color filter array.
Moreover, the red, green, and blue that the sensor sees does not match the red, green, and blue seen by the human eye, for both physical and psychophysical reasons (meaning the color constancy that involves the brain and not just the eye).
A Bayer color filter array. Each photosite is either sensitive to red, or green, or blue. There are twice as many green photosites as red or blue photosites.
This image with interlaced channels is the RAW image. There is no way it can be avoided, since it is essentially what the sensor "sees." A RAW converter transforms it into an image that the user can see. Every camera has a RAW converter embedded on a chip. The RAW image is transferred to this image processing chip, converted to a RGB image, then transferred to the memory card. This process is generally sufficient for most users, who are usually interested only in the final image.
However, expert photographers want to control many parameters of the RAW conversion itself (such as white balance, exposure, and so on), a possibility now offered by camera manufacturers, who have made versions of their RAW converters available as PC software. In this case, the RAW image is directly transferred to the memory card before undergoing RAW conversion.
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As this stretch becomes more arduous for the Angels' bullpen, they're in need of a strong start more than ever. So Monday against the Indians would be the perfect time for ace Jered Weaver to turn in a strong bounceback outing.
Weaver, just 7-6 this year, was on a roll over his last nine starts, lowering his ERA from 4.15 on June 27 to 2.87 on Aug. 9, before he took the mound at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday. He was tagged for nine runs on nine hits in five innings, as his ERA climbed back up to 3.49.
And as the Angels bullpen was taxed this weekend -- an extra-innings win against the Astros on Saturday and 3 2/3 more on Sunday brought the relievers total to 381 innings on the season -- the Angels surely could use a lengthy outing from Weaver.
"We're dealing with some things, but you have to try to do exactly what you're saying, carry good play onto the field, carry momentum one pitch at a time," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "The last three weeks it's been tough with some of the things in our bullpen. A couple guys are exhausted, lets just say it. Many guys are throwing too much so you have to make decisions on giving guys days off which has further thinned some of the depth you have down there."
After a series loss to the A's this weekend, the Indians are looking for a bit of momentum as they continue to chase the Tigers in the American League Central. They're seven back of Detroit division, and sit behind Tampa Bay, Oakland and Baltimore in the chase for the two AL Wild Card spots.
Cleveland has lost nine of its past 13. Right-hander Zach McAllister, a late replacement for rookie Danny Salazar, got his first win since coming off the disabled list in his most recent outing, when he held the Twins to two runs (one earned) and four hits over six innings, with just one walk and seven strikeouts. McAllister is 1-2 with 4.56 ERA since his return.
The 23-year-old Salazar was scratched, and perhaps will be rescheduled to start on Tuesday, out of caution against his innings count this season.
Indians: Best vs. the West
• The Tribe is 18-8 this year against the AL West, outscoring teams 141-89 with 42 home runs in those 26 games.
• The Indians lost two of three to the Angels in the team's most recent homestand. They've gone 123-142 all-time at Angel Stadium, but have been around the .500 mark (45-44) there since the start of the 1994 season.
Angels: Trout leaves Sunday
Center fielder Mike Trout left in the top of the sixth inning of Sunday's game with right hamstring tightness after going 2-for-3 with a double and a run before he was taken out.
With Peter Bourjos having the day off, Collin Cowgill moved from right field to center and Kole Calhoun took over in right field.
Trout reached base for the 40th straight game, extending the longest current streak in the Majors.
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Billy and Nick are salesmen whose careers have been torpedoed by the digital world. Trying to prove they are not obsolete, they defy the odds by talking their way into a coveted internship at Google, along with a battalion of brilliant college students. But, gaining entrance to this utopia is only half the battle. Now they must compete...
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Billy and Nick are salesmen whose careers have been torpedoed by the digital world. Trying to prove they are not obsolete, they defy the odds by talking their way into a coveted internship at Google, along with a battalion of brilliant college students. But, gaining entrance to this utopia is only half the battle. Now they must compete with a group of the nation's most elite, tech-savvy geniuses to prove that necessity really is the mother of re-invention.
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Google's famous mantra is "Do no evil." But it's hard not to detect whiffs of villainy from the search engine-turned-multimedia ecosystem in The Internship, a creaky comedy starring Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn that is basically a craven infomercial for the company. The message of the movie — "Google's a cool place to work, you guys!" — is conveyed lovingly by director Shawn Levy's choice to show all the perks of employment there (like free food and coffee, nap pods, and employees who look like Rose Byrne and are as stuffily funny as Aasif Mandvi), and makes the script feel like it was written by Google's Director of Corporate Communications in 2005, when the company's awesomeness was still a novelty. You can't help but feel that there's something if not evil then homogenizingly bland about a company that promotes itself via a movie featuring a totally neutered Vaughn and Wilson doing a PG-13 version of their Wedding Crashers shtick. A shtick that we also loved… in 2005.
Wilson and Vaughn play watch salesmen — truly the last of their breed and begging for an Albert Maysles documentary — who find out their company has gone bust. While Wilson's Nick takes another dead-end job selling mattresses for a Sanskrit-tattooed Will Ferrell, Vaughn's Billy searches for jobs for people "with few skills," and settles upon applying for an internship at Google for the two of them. They interview for the gig with a typically smug B.J. Novak via a Google Hangout — of course! — and get the gig.
They pair is given a misfit team of outcasts 20 years their junior to compete in several challenges during their summer-long internship: a home-schooled momma's boy (Tobit Raphael), a lethargic hipster (Dylan O'Brien), and a Comic-Con geek (Tiya Sircar). Together, they have to tackle projects like "finding a bug in a computer program," "manning the phones at Google technical support," and oddly enough, a Quidditch match. Admittedly, it's better than any of the Quidditch matches we ever saw in the Harry Potter movies — I don't recall Daniel Radcliffe, like Vaughn, motivating his team via an extended Flashdance metaphor.
Of course, it would have been better if said Flashdance metaphor hadn't been featured in its entirety in the trailer, but so were all the best jokes in The Internship (including a scene in which Wilson and Vaughn's teammates tell them to track down Professor Charles Xavier for a challenge, and, cluelessly, the two buds have no idea they're being played with an X-Men reference). Nothing explains why Wilson and Vaughn are unfamiliar with X-Men and Harry Potter while they are apparently aware of Katniss Everdeen based on Wilson's joke early in the movie that the Google internship is like "mental Hunger Games."
Wilson and Vaughn's unschooled fratitude is meant to be inspiring to their confidence-challenged teammates. Which means, not unexpectedly, that they take them to a strip club, get them lap dances, and get them soused. That strip club detour even helps them win one of their challenges, a plot contrivance that highlights one of the biggest flaws in the shiny corporate cosmology Google so eagerly wants to convey: we don't ever get a sense what it is that employees at Google actually do. Rose Byrne's job description seems to require her to wear glasses, pin her hair up, and walk around fetchingly, but little else. Aasif Mandvi projects an air of Argyle-sweatered by-the-bookness, but little else. Josh Gad listens to headphones while staring into a computer screen…but little else. Google may not come across as evil in The Internship. It does come across as boring, though, something the search engine empire has never been. This wasn't the commercial Google was looking for.
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I will [MENTION=1]Steve[/MENTION] just to notify the other regulars of this game. I kinda knew you would soon create a new thread because the old one was getting very large. I'll tag the regulars: [MENTION=53221]Curky[/MENTION] [MENTION=33253]donyms[/MENTION] [MENTION=33410]SupplySgt[/MENTION] [MENTION=19996]goldie[/MENTION] [MENTION=44531]Sierraowner5.3[/MENTION] and [MENTION=57079]1953bowtieguy[/MENTION] I think thats all who's really regular. I say Curky next
I guess it's me again. My posting will probably go up a bit with the purchase of this iPad Mini. Since it has 4G I can post from wherever I want lol. I'm gonna guess CR next
Yup I'm here Just finished building a bullet trap for my garage. Have yet to test it out. Supply next
Yup I'm around. I have to go to verizon today to get my phone fixed since right now all it does is restart itself.. Maybe Curky will be next.
I'm in. Just had coffee with a couple army buddies who had drill in my area this weekend. At that point where I'm debating whether to keep modding my truck or sell it to get something heavy duty. I'm gonna have to go real easy on it when I move for that 10 bolt to hold with all that towing (about 2000 miles worth with 2/3 of that pulling vehicles). I just realized last night though that there were some 14 bolts that came with 1/2 tons though. Curky isn't so reliable on the weekends so I'm guessing CR again after he gets his phone fixed.


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Edgar Dewdney, 1835-1916, was born in Devonshire, England, and educated as a civil engineer. He came to British Columbia in 1859. He married twice: to Jane Shaw Moir in 1864 and to Blanche Kemeys-Tynte in 1909. He surveyed and built the Dewdney Trail, completed in 1865. He was elected to the British Columbia Legislative Council in 1869, and to the Canadian Parliament as Conservative member for Yale in 1872, 1874 and 1878. He was Indian Commissioner and Lieutenant-Governor for the North-West Territories, 1879-1888 and 1881-1888 respectively. During this period he carried on regular correspondence with Sir John A. Macdonald regarding current affairs and, in particular, the 1885 Riel Rebellion (North West Rebellion). He was elected to Parliament as member for Assiniboia East in 1888 and 1891, and served as Minister of the Interior, 1888-1892. From 1892-1897 he was Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia. He then retired to become a mining broker in Victoria, where he died. In 1975 the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada designated Dewdney as a National Historic Person. For further information see the MA thesis, "Edgar Dewdney, Commissioner of Indian Affairs and Lieutenant Governor of North-West Territories" / by Jean B.D. Larmour.- Regina : University of Saskatchewan, 1969. See also E. Brian Titley's entry "Edgar Dewdney" in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, volume XIV. -- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1998, p. 295-298; The Frontier World of Edgar Dewdney / Brian Titley. -- Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 1999; and "The Honourable Edgar Dewdney, 1881-1888" in On Behalf of the Crown : Lieutenant Governors of the North West Territories and Alberta, 1869-2005 / Sandra E. Perry and Karen L. Powell. -- Edmonton : Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 2006, p. 249-269.
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Sale, White Sox open vs. Shields, revamped Royals
AL Central rivals plan to challenge Tigers for division supremacy in '13
While the defending American League champion Tigers may again be the consensus pick to win the AL Central, two of their biggest challengers will square off on Opening Day when the White Sox host the Royals at 3:10 p.m. CT on Monday at U.S. Cellular Field.
Chicago surprised many last season, posting an 85-77 record while remaining in the hunt for the division crown until the final week before finishing second. As for Kansas City, last season unfolded like many others in recent memory, with Ned Yost's club never in serious playoff contention en route to a 90-loss season.
While the White Sox mostly stood pat this offseason and hope to build off last year's re-emergence, the Royals revamped their rotation in a busy offseason geared toward winning now. The plan is off to a good start in exhibition play at least, with Kansas City setting a franchise record for Spring Training wins.
The offseason shuffle started when the Royals acquired starter Ervin Santana from the Angels on Oct. 31 and re-signed starter Jeremy Guthrie just three weeks later. Then came the bombshell in early December, when Kansas City landed Opening Day starter James Shields and right-hander Wade Davis from the Rays in exchange for a wealth of prospects, including No. 4 overall prospect Wil Myers.
"Shields is a great pitcher. He's a great competitor. He's a huge piece for them," said veteran White Sox reliever Matt Thornton. "The addition of Wade Davis is a big piece for them also. But like I said, it's the game of baseball and you never know. That's why we do what we do. It's going to be fun to play against teams like Detroit and Kansas City, and Cleveland is better and Minnesota is better. It's going to be a fun year."
To understand just how much the AL Central has changed since the Tigers fell short in last year's World Series, look no further than the Royals' pitching staff.
Just last year, Bruce Chen was Kansas City's Opening Day starter, winning 11 games and making a career-high 34 starts. Now, Chen finds himself relegated to a bullpen role, with Santana, Guthrie, Davis and Luis Mendoza slated to follow Shields in the rotation.
"When you run a starting pitcher out there every day and your team feels good about it," Royals pitching coach Dave Eiland said, "it elevates [everyone else's] level of play as well. So it's a major difference."
The revamped rotation might not intimidate the White Sox as much as other opponents, though, as they are probably glad to see Chen no longer a part of it. Chen's six wins against the White Sox over the past two seasons (6-2, 3.13 ERA) are the second most by any starter against the South Siders, trailing only Tigers ace Justin Verlander's seven.
"You know, Bruce Chen was the anchor against us the last couple of years," said catcher Tyler Flowers, who stepped into the starting role following A.J. Pierzynski's departure via free agency. "It might be good to kind of change it up and have somebody else out there. I mean, we are not really worried about that. We have quality pitching, too. We'll go round for round with them, and I like our chances."
Round 1 will pit young left-hander Chris Sale opposite Shields, as Sale makes his first career Opening Day start, compared to Shields' fifth. In his first full season as a starter, Sale emerged as the staff ace in 2012, going 17-8 with a 3.05 ERA while making his first All-Star appearance and finishing sixth in the AL Cy Young Award voting.
"My knees are shaking now just thinking about it," Sale said of his Opening Day assignment. "I'm definitely going to have to collect myself, stay focused and take a lot of deep breaths. The last couple of Opening Days, I've been a kid in a candy shop. And now, being part of it, it could be overwhelming, but I'm going to do everything to collect myself and stay on an even plane. You know it's going to be electric, though."
And though the bright lights of Opening Day aren't anything new for Shields, he figures to feel some of those nerves, too, as he takes the mound looking to lead Kansas City into a new era in Royals baseball.
"It's pretty exciting, man. I don't know about you guys, but I'm pretty excited," Shields said. "For me, these guys have had a great attitude this Spring Training, we've had a lot of fun and we've really created a good atmosphere around here. That's one of the things I'm most excited about."
Royals: Expectations aside, Yost focused on staying grounded
Yost knows as well as anyone the expectations are for Kansas City to start winning immediately.
After all, the club traded away its top overall prospect as well as a pair of pitching prospects for established veterans in an attempt to right the ship and avoid a 10th straight losing season.
"If you get too fired up, then the first little rough spot you've got, you lose interest," Yost said. "It can't happen. I like our team. I really like our team. I think we're going to be able to compete."
Yost went through it all firsthand last season, as the Royals posted a 3-14 start, including a 12-game losing streak in April. Kansas City posted winning records in May, June and August, but could never fully recover from the rough start on its way to a 72-90 season.
"My philosophy -- and this is why I try not to get too wound up into everything -- is it's 162 games," Yost said. "You can't get discouraged when you hit a bit of a rough spot. I'm talking manager, coaches, players and fans. It's going to happen. You just have to be able to cover it, work through it and get through it."
White Sox: Reed set to build off strong rookie season
As Opening Day approached last season, one of the biggest question marks facing the club was who would be the closer with former reliever Sale joining the rotation.
After some early season flux at the back end of the bullpen in 2012, Addison Reed ultimately shouldered the responsibility and went on to record a single-season franchise rookie record with 29 saves. The 24-year-old will look to build on that success, though entering the final week of Spring Training, he had yet to pitch in a save situation this spring.
"My mindset is if I go out there in the first inning, I'm taking it as three guys up and I'm trying to get those three guys out in consecutive order," Reed said. "I don't think that I have to throw the ninth inning in a game to get that feel."
Worth noting
• Kansas City took the season series last year, going 12-6. After the White Sox won the season series 10 consecutive years from 2001-10, the Royals have won the head-to-head matchup each of the last two.
• Royals shortstop Alcides Escobar has a .435 career average (10-for-23) against Sale, the highest among all players whom have faced the lefty at least 10 times.
• Shields' 4.76 ERA in 11 career starts against the White Sox is his highest against any AL team.
Paul Casella is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @paul_casella. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Where Do Good UX Ideas Come From?
Many companies struggle with the question of whether to develop UX strategy, research, and design capabilities internally, or to engage external UX firms as-needed when projects arise. Companies must forecast their need for these services on a long-term basis, and weigh the comparative costs and benefits of each approach. But is it purely a question of economics? Does an external UX team offer value beyond the flexibility and overall cost savings of not maintaining an internal team?
When asked only in the context of individual projects, the answer to this question is probably "no." For a single project, the rationale for engaging an external UX firm may remain purely financial. But it's crucial to ask a broader question: how effective will each approach be at fostering ongoing UX innovation, beyond the limits or needs of existing projects?
The question of UX innovation—defined generally as the ability to identify novel or "breakthrough" interactions, experiences, or products—requires consideration of the optimal configuration of UX resources over time, not just within the confines of currently known problems. UX teams are, or at least should be, tasked, on an ongoing basis to think about new products and solutions that better achieve current business goals, or that extend a company's business in a new direction. Innovations that emerge from UX activities, including both design research and interaction design, have the potential to make significant contributions to a company's success.
So is an internal UX team preferable to an external UX vendor in the context of this longer term, more innovation-focused view?
On the surface, it may seem like internal teams would fare better for long term innovation because they are more familiar with a company's history, strategies, successes, and failures, giving them deep and highly nuanced knowledge. But the embedded nature of internal teams may also create barriers to innovation or to their ability to act on innovative insights. One such barrier is a form of "trained incapacity" in which the the depth of knowledge accumulated by an internal team comes to dominate the frameworks of their thinking and prevent them from recognizing or exploring avenues outside those frameworks. Don Norman said it well in a recent blog post:
People within [an internal] group find it difficult to break out of the traditional paradigms, for usually these seem like givens, not to be questioned. Many of these beliefs have been around for so long that they are like air and gravity: taken for granted and never thought about. Outsiders bring a fresh perspective, particularly if they are willing to question everything, especially that which seems obvious to everyone else. It helps to be an outsider, where tradition and existing corporate policies do not apply, where it is ok to break with the standard way of doing things and where one's promotion or bonus is not in jeopardy.
This limitation of perspective can be difficult, but not impossible, for an internal team to overcome. And when internal teams do manage to think outside their narrow purview, they often encounter resistance from colleagues when they advocate their ideas more broadly within the organization. This is because some organizations that are generally aware of their own struggles with innovation tend to favor ideas that come from the outside on the assumption that they are better informed, more innovative, perhaps "sexier" and more likely to see the light of day.
There may be ways in which internal teams can never satisfy certain factors that are crucial to innovation precisely because they are internal. The range of focus of internal teams may structurally limit their ability to generate ideas beyond their immediate perspective. Some recent thinking regarding the conditions that are optimal for innovation may shed light on this question.
Patterns of Innovation
In his excellent book, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation, Steven Johnson identifies six patterns that correlate with enhanced innovation capabilities or outcomes. Each pattern, and Johnson's book as a whole, relates generally to the notion that richer, more diverse, and massively interconnected atmospheres (such as large cities, or coral reefs) are more prone to generate innovations. This results from the sometimes random collisions of ideas and discoveries, inspiration from unrelated domains, reuse or adaptation of "spare parts" in novel contexts, and breakthroughs achieved through error or serendipity. Diverse, networked, and open environments encourage greater innovation.
As applied to UX innovation, Steven Johnson's innovation patterns might suggest that internal UX teams working basically in isolation are less likely to stumble upon, or develop over time, the innovations that will most dramatically affect a business or product. Three such patterns are particularly applicable to this discussion.
The Adjacent Possible
Johnson maintains that many successful ideas are formed from "spare parts lying around"—in other words, elements of ideas that were originally intended for a different purpose that become essential foundations for new, unrelated ideas. Johnson's term adjacent possible refers to the region of possible ideas that surround these various parts, a region that shifts and enlarges as new ideas are constructed from the available elements.
In the UX context, it's easy to view the components of experiences (anything from discrete interactions or touchpoints to broader experience themes that underpin successful products) as spare parts, with adjacent possibles around them. A sustained familiarity with these components and their variety of potential applications would help a UX team to more effectively notice and take advantage of innovative possibilities. External UX teams, by virtue of their involvement with multiple client domains and product strategies, are best positioned to explore the adjacent possible in this way. Their offices are, metaphorically speaking, littered with the spare parts of other projects that can, often unexpectedly, spark an insight that unlocks a whole new framework for a client's product or business.
Slow Hunches
In his discussion of the concept of slow hunches, Johnson takes issue with the common conception of the "Eureka!" moment as the basis for accelerated innovation. Johnson asserts that many such epiphanies, though they may appear to the inventor as sudden realizations, are more often the culmination of long-simmering thoughts that require a final piece of the puzzle in order to be completed as a coherent innovation. Slow hunches linger in the back of the mind, take time to bloom, and are often accelerated by virtue of exposure to ideas in radically different contexts (i.e., exposure to the adjacent possible).
While external UX vendors certainly don't hold a monopoly on hunches, the diversity of their professional scope increases the frequency of these hunches and the likelihood that any particular hunch will find the last puzzle piece it needs to bloom into a full-blown innovation.
A third innovation pattern that should be very familiar to creative professionals is the notion of serendipity—stumbling accidentally on an idea, image, or connection that suddenly organizes your thinking or provides a useful framework with which to reorient an existing idea. In Johnson's words:
[For a] hunch to blossom into something more substantial, it has to connect with other ideas. The hunch requires an environment where surprising new connections can be forged: the neurons and synapses of the brain itself, and the larger cultural environment that the brain occupies.
Connections are surprising when relevancies are revealed in places where none were expected. These surprises are more likely to happen for teams that regularly operate in diverse environments. Serendipity acts as an important ingredient in innovation along with the adjacent possible and the slow hunch. The three patterns together describe an environment in which diverse ideas and hunches circle around each other, colliding somewhat randomly until a productive combination is discovered.
Innovation Inside?
Many companies have tried to create internal innovation groups to explore the boundaries of the company's current business and to investigate far-flung opportunities for growth. However, there are significant risks to this approach. These groups tend to be costly, and many years may pass before any marketable outcomes emerge from their efforts. More importantly, while an internal innovation group may produce some successful ideas, they are just as likely to produce a larger number of potentially costly failures. This is, some would argue, in the nature of the innovation process itself.
While PARC (probably the best-known internal innovation group), certainly produced some phenomenally successful innovations for Xerox, the group is more famous for giving up the mouse and GUI innovations to Steve Jobs and Apple. Malcolm Gladwell, in his account of the PARC / Apple story, asserts that "in the real, messy world of creativity, giving away the thing you don't really understand for the thing that you do is an inevitable tradeoff." In other words, it was fundamentally not possible for Xerox to understand or capitalize on some of the inventions coming out of PARC.
In a sense, external UX vendors insulate clients from the risks and discomfort of the "messy world of creativity" by spreading this uncertainly across a broader range of clients and projects. For many clients that are less ambitious (or risk-tolerant) than Xerox, this may be an optimal approach. It allows them to order innovation on demand from diverse vendors rather that committing to a perpetual expenditure for a single internal team.
Towards a New UX Engagement Structure
There's a clear case to be made that external UX vendors are better suited than internal groups to deliver UX innovation. The field of innovation should expand beyond the confines of bounded projects with limited objectives and constraints. So what specific model for engagement with external UX firms will foster conditions of innovation without imposing unreasonable financial burdens on the client? An additional complication: the engagement structure must ensure that the external firm does not become so deeply enmeshed with the client's organization that they, in effect, become like an internal team.
What does this mode of engagement look like? In general, the structure should maintain a connection, even if it is a low-intensity connection, between the client and the vendor. This keeps the vendor apprised of the client's activities, ideas, and plans, and keeps the client apprised of the vendor's other activities, ideas, and innovations. Keeping this connection open provides regular opportunities for slow hunches to bloom into concrete ideas through serendipity or networking with the adjacent possible. These concrete ideas may be for entirely new products or product extensions that can be developed into standalone projects, or insights into existing projects—even ones that the vendor isn't working on.
Call this combined team an innovation team, or borrow another of Steven Johnson's metaphors and call it a coffeehouse. Johnson's coffeehouse is a metaphor for a central gathering place of innovators and ideas—a physical space or venue where the mixture of thinking from disparate fields leads to new ideas. Regular coffeehouse meetings between client and vendor, with the information thread continued between the meetings so they can occur within a larger context, can leverage the conditions of innovation towards an ongoing vendor–client relationship that takes advantage of the best reasons for hiring an external vendor.
In my experience as a principal in a UX consultancy, many clients have already recognized that engaging a vendor to parachute in for a single project and then vacate the premises misses an opportunity. Retaining vendors in long-term engagements preserves continuity and the accumulation of experience and understanding that could lead to incremental improvements in the quality of UX projects. But few companies can afford the cost (in dollars, or management time and effort) of keeping an external firm in a constant state of research and development. As a result, external UX vendors that are interested in driving ongoing innovation for their clients must work to structure engagement models that preserve optimal innovation conditions under feasible economic conditions.
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For those still interested in this topic, an interesting fact: Nike, "most innovative company of 2013" leveraged external innovation vendors in their conception and development of the award-winning fuelband.
Hi Nick,
I won't try to instigate to much back and forth here, because normally I just enjoy having things to read and think about :)
But it was this quote that seemed a bit sweeping and surprised me: "There's a clear case to be made that external UX vendors are better suited than internal groups to deliver UX innovation. "
It's a pretty bold statement and left me confused because it felt like it was going against the point you were trying to make.
I was really enjoying this article until the end and as I came across a few of your overstatements. First, innovative UX can come out of companies without an external vendor. Not to be cliche, but look at Apple. Plenty of innovation going on there. There are countless companies out there not only capable of UX innovation, but are sometimes the leaders off which UX agencies/consultancies springboard.
I say this because I have worked both client-side and at digital agencies. And, while I agree with many of the statements about how ideas are generated and the all to common constraints that internal teams face, I disagree wholeheartedly that the best UX comes from vendors. I think it's a balance. And, looking at the future, I think consultancies need to be careful. Everyday, more and more agency folks are getting employed internally, and we're taking all of our client knowledge, left-over ideas, and practices to our new positions.
Ideally it all comes down to what the product needs and the team structure. It is possible for an internal team to come up with a brilliant idea and it's also possible for a vendor to come up with a shitty one. It goes the other direction as well. Before you get too sold on the idea that external peeps do it better, remember who's selling you that idea to begin with ... (hint)
I have to second John's opinion here.
There's a great foundation here in this article to explore how internal innovation teams can break through the paradigms they face on an everyday basis (with or without the help of external UX vendors).
I would love to see a follow up article about HOW UX ideas come about, instead of just WHO come up with them.
As others have commented, it is more a matter of having a culture of innovation in a company. Without this, external or internal teams will have little traction with new ideas.
I think you have outlined some interesting issues that many (not all by a long shot) companies have.
I don't think the solution is as easy as internal or external UX teams. UXMag articles seemed to have become a forum for agencies to push the need for agency use, rather than a real look at solutions for both agencies and internals.
I have lost count of the number of articles that have the clear underlying message; 'use our services (and pay us money)'. I am not anti-agency use, but I am anti the proposal that they are a magic bullet.
I have a little problem here. Seing that this website is uxmag, why the hell is the text so small ?
Such a hard time reading through articles ! Does spoil the pleasure of reading them...
While innovation is important, an internal UX group brings a more complete understanding of the ecosystem within an organization. The article may see this as a limitation, but an external UX firm doesn't have to live with the long-term consequences of embedding an innovating design/system into an organization.
What level of innovation stakeholders SAY they're excited about during design meetings can be far different from how those same internal groups react to living with such changes months later. By then the external group is gone on to the next gig and somebody inside the organization has to do damage control on too much innovating in all the wrong places.
I agree that external firms can bring fresh ideas, and that stakeholders will often inexplicably listen more attentively to the suggestions made by an external group – but that doesn't mean those ideas are the best long-term solution. For that knowledge you have to ask a group who knows both the science of usability *and* the temperament of an organization: a group like an internal UX team.
I just ran across a nice follow-up to Nick's article...
When Ideas Have Sex: The secret to human success is—and always has been—collaboration.
"Since ancient times, the exchange of ideas and goods has fueled innovation. Trade, not necessity, is the mother of invention...Countries [and companies, and designers...] that open their borders to the free exchange of goods and services and ideas and innovations flourish, while those that cut themselves off and seek economic self-sufficiency stagnate."
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Matt brings up a good point. If an external consultant plays the role of advisor and is invested in the long term success of their input and ideas, the benefits of non-instituationalized thinking can be abundant.
That's a big caviot. You don't often seen that level of concern and commitment from a designer brought in to fill a resource need, or a design agency commissioned to execute a design that they can then walk away from.
I think part of the answer to this is in the language used. As long as design consultants or designers are brought in as "vendors" then we will add little ongoing value to an organization's culture and long term success as an innovator. If our clients are only interested in buying deliverables then we'll never get there.
If, however, we become actual consultants, a trusted advisor, we are in a position to be of much greater value. This can be accomplished through the ongoing communication that you suggest in your article (and the Janna mentioned in her comments), and also through the way we position our work and relationship. We need to be in a position where they think of us a partners. We need to understand their businesses in depth and be able to offer strategic guidance as well as tactical production.
One of the thing we try to do at Normative is help our clients get to a place where they can understand and manage this type of work throughout their organization, regardless of having a specific "ux" team in house. We try to teach them how to solve the problem they've come to us to solve, rather than just coming back to us for the same type of work over and over. In that way we can establish long term relationships with organizations that result in a great variety of work and problem types. With each solution we both learn something important that allows us to move to a new stage in our working relationship.. It doesn't always work out ideally, but that's the general approach.
Thanks for this, Nick. It raises interesting questions for those of us in a consultancy of how we can bring value beyond the project.
Most importantly, internal and external teams often are unable to bring about innovation purely because there is no culture of innovation and disruptive thinking within the broader organisation. Having access to the leadership of an organisation certainly provides more opportunity to expose, over time, the possibilities.
Oh, and keeping in touch with clients outside of projects about trends and outlooks you've come by just reminds them of the ongoing value you can provide outside of the project lifecycle. How do we make that a regular part of client engagement?
There's a downside when using an external UX vendor. On the one hand, innovation doesn't come by on demand. So hiring an external UX team to come up with a new product idea for a given deadline doesn't work. On the other hand, brewing innovation pipeline using an external UX vendor is costly.
So I think creating an innovation culture within a company is more advantageous. The UX team members must not be sitting in a white castle dreaming up stuff. Rather, the team should comprise members from various product groups spending part of their time making real products, and the other part innovating.


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Chiropractic Care in Frisco TX
Are you looking for a chiropractor in Frisco? Choosing a health care provider is a big decision. At Hoogeveen Health Center we believe that education is a big part of our patients success. This article about chiropractic will give you some of the basic knowledge you need to understand what we can do for you, but this entire website is dedicated to helping you understand the full scope of what our team can do.
We hope you find this information helpful and as always please feel free to contact us with any questions that you have.The vast majority of the public equates chiropractic with back pain, but the circumstances under which the science was discovered actually had little to do with back pain. The first chiropractic adjustment was performed on a deaf man resulting in the restoration of his hearing. DD Palmer believed that many conditions could be addressed by removing pressure from the nerve that was involved with the affected area. He proceeded to make it his life's work, turning this belief into the science of chiropractic.
The leading health care professionals at the Hoogeveen Health Center are dedicated to helping you achieve your chiropractic and wellness objectives – combining skill, technology, and expertise that spans the entire wellness paradigm! At Hoogeveen Health Center we are committed to serving and educating our patients. Our mission is to improve the quality of your life and to help you understand the long term benefits of a true wellness lifestyle! You are sure to find some interesting and potentially life changing information for the entire family. Be sure to sign up for our newsletter.
What is Chiropractic in General?
Chiropractic is a profession within the health care field that deals with the neuro-musculoskeletal system of the human body. A doctor of chiropractic will diagnose, treat and prevent injuries and disorders of the nerves, muscles and bones. While a chiropractor will diagnose and treat these resultant injuries and disorders, the main objective of the chiropractor is the removal of nerve interference allowing the body to heal itself without invasive procedures and/or drugs. As would be the case with any other field of care, our patients at Hoogeveen Health Center receive a thorough consultation including history and examination of their major complaint. After considering possible causes of the patients' condition a diagnosis is established and a treatment plan is created. Should a patient require treatment outside the scope of chiropractic care they are referred to the appropriate medical specialist in our area. As the science of chiropractic has evolved so have the techniques used within its practice. Common treatment methods have grown to include nutritional counseling, orthotics, lifestyle modification / exercise programs and physical rehabilitation programs. While these adjunctive treatments are certainly beneficial, spinal and joint manipulation remains the primary and most effective mode of treatment by our clinic. Statistics reflect that nearly 95% of patients that seek chiropractic care in Frisco do so as a result of musculoskeletal pain such as:
- Neck pain
- Headaches
- Back pain
- Extremity pain
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Strain/sprain injuries
Conditions caused by spinal dysfunction accounts for the remaining 5% of chiropractic patients. These conditions are those manifesting through the nervous system, such as:
- Asthma
- Allergies
- Colic
- Constipation and other digestive dysfunctions, etc …
Chiropractic care is not a guaranteed miracle treatment. However, it is not uncommon for patients to report an improvement in the conditions listed above after receiving chiropractic treatment. The majority of people in Frisco understand that chiropractic treatment is beneficial for back and neck pain, headaches and sprain/strain injuries. However, very few people including those in the medical community, truly understand the affect adjustments have on the central nervous system. In particular, the affect adjustments have on the autonomic nervous system and its sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system.
Chiropractic – Scientifically Explained
If you are looking for a scientific explanation of how chiropractor works this paragraph is for you. A concise scientific explanation of chiropractic is that adjustments directly affect musculoskeletal structures, by reducing pain and increasing joint motion.
Musculoskeletal structures include ligaments, muscles, joints, joint capsules and surrounding myofascial tissues. Aside from this direct benefit, the autonomic nervous system is indirectly effected by the down regulation of the sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight system), and promotion of the para-sympathetic nervous system (rest and repair system).
This is done through the effects the chiropractic adjustments have on the joint capsules, and the body's proprioception mechanism (sense of where one is space) through the mechanoreceptors (provide information regarding mechanical changes within the body) in the joints and periarticular tissues (tissue surrounding the joint).
That's a lot to take in, but it is the explanation as to why some chiropractic patients report improvement in organic function, not only musculoskeletal benefits.
To reiterate, this is not a claim that chiropractic adjustments treat systemic pathology, but does suggest that some who have systemic symptoms may see results from chiropractic care even without the presence of pain.
Health Benefits of Chiropractic Care
Those that have been dealing with chronic pain or have been injured are not the only individuals who should seek chiropractic care in Frisco. The benefits of chiropractic care can be realized for many people with any variety of health conditions. Even those relatively "healthy" individuals with few, if any, health conditions can see the benefits of chiropractic maintenance care. The impact of life's daily grind adds up stressing the human body in far greater ways than you might realize. Regular chiropractic adjustments can restore and maintain balance within, allowing the innately intelligent human body to heal itself, leaving you better prepared to live life to its fullest.
Regardless of one's walk in life, anyone can benefit greatly from regular chiropractic care. Routine chiropractic treatments will help maintain the body at the high level of activity life calls for, allowing the body to self-heal through proper alignment. Your spinal column serves as a conduit through which the human brain sends messages through and out to the body's nervous system. It is simple to see how protecting the integrity of this important structure, through regular visits to Hoogeveen Health Center is vital to the body's optimal function and overall health.
The Education of a Chiropractor
Most patients don't realize how much schooling chiropractors in Frisco have to go though before they can start practicing? Chiropractors are held to some of the most intense educational requirements of any health profession. In fact their schooling requirements are very comparable to that of medical practitioners. After completing a heavy emphasis of basic sciences in and undergraduate program, potential chiropractors may be accepted into a five year chiropractic college. During that time they do extensive course work in the areas of:
- Anatomy
- Physiology
- Public Health
- Microbiology
- Pathology
- Biochemestry
- Chiropractic Philosophy and Practice
- Chiropractic Diagnosis
- Adjusting Methods
- Nutrition
- X-Ray
Are you curious to know if chiropractic is the right treatment for you? Please do not hesitate to call our team of dedicated professionals at Hoogeveen Health Center in Frisco. Chiropractic care coupled with our outstanding, caring team can produce incredible results. Take advantage of our services today and take control of your health. Our team is here to help you today.
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We started our day back in Brookings, OR, and our first thought was, Throw open those blinds and let's see this view! Needless to say, the oceanview from our room was breathtaking. We spent a good half hour watching people with puppies run up and down the beach, playing in the crashing waves. Which made us wonder...is Mavi a water dog? We'll have to find out this summer! But back to Brookings....what a lovely town! Set around a port, there are oceanviews from any spot in town. Wonderful! However, breakfast this morning? Not so wonderful. We wanted to grab something quick so we settled on McDonald's so we could eat and drive at the same time. We pulled into the drive-thru around 10:40, only to find out they had quit serving breakfast at 10:30. Huh?? Who wants to start eating greasy burgers and fries so early in the morning??? Americans...that's who! The best they could offer me was...bacon on a biscuit. Which was as bare-bones as it sounds...a crusty biscuit with 2 slices of bacon on it. So I ate the bacon and ditched the biscuit lol. Kory had oatmeal with fruit, but didn't get a spoon with it...pretty interesting to watch him eat without one! But it's Kory...of course he managed!
On the road to good ole California was next on the agenda, and it wasn't long before we had crossed the border and entered the majestic Red Woods. The sheer size of these things is almost impossible to comprehend until you are standing right next to one, looking like an ant in comparison. We came upon the Trees of Mystery and were told by Kory's friend Kyle it was worth a stop so we pulled in...and found a giant Paul Bunyon and a giant Babe in the parking lot. Pretty cool! There was a trail going up through the forest that was amazing...so many huge trees, some fallen giants, and tons of pretty wildflowers. The SkyTrail was a gondola that took you up (waaaaay up) to an observation deck that literally had you looking DOWN on these amazingly tall giants. Kory enjoyed it, while I...was...terrified!!!! At one point I actually had to put my head between my legs and take deep breaths (while squeezing the life out of Kory's poor hand)...just a little too high and unstable for this girl! But we made it to the top and enjoyed the spectacular view, and then Kory tranquilized me for the ride down to make it easier on his poor hand. Ha ha!
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