UX Coffee idea #1 - Chilli coffee

Try this for a holiday season wake up call with a zing!

Take 1 level teaspoon of chilli powder (a heaped teaspoon if you love hot food) to the coffee grounds (at your normal strength) in a 6 cup plunger of coffee before you pour in the (just off the boil) water.

Stir and steep as normal (or however you make it)

Enjoy* !

*ps . Try at your discretion and exercise caution on the first sip (pause and see how it is). Chilli powder strength may vary from country to country, brand to brand. I'm not liable if it causes you any problems, injury, endorphins, discomfort, allergy, burns, discomfort or desire for more :)

Getting your service or product (almost) Everywhere

Fidelity a banking and financial group have some great ideas in a lab format to explore ways people can access banking and finance information, products and services. They are going everywhere: google and yahoo widgets, I-phone

That takes you many possible places your customers are making it easier to access your product or service.

Link to Fidelity Labs here

I saw this on Read Write Web. .A cool blog site when they talked about the Google gadget. Looking at the labs site there was some other interesting items.

Getting people to try your ideas and discuss them is a great way to get feedback, start a loyal following and generate more dialogue and links to your core business. An informal, frontier like feel often opens up communication too!

Webstock 09 getting closer

http://www.webstock.org.nz/ is coming up. I've been to their conferences each year I've lived in NZ, They have great speakers, atmosphere and put a lot of thought into the program. They give the conference real user experience: making people feel included before they arrive, run a great event, and have lots of post conference events, community and communications. Then before you know it you're anticipating it at the following year. Can't wait for this one...