The EchoUser team scattered far and wide for projects this week, but we still found time to come together around the virtual Skype-chat fireplace and discuss a few great stories:
McDonald's Germany crowd-sourced a burger, which comes on a pretzel bun and is topped with ham. Could this work at U.S. Mickey-D's locations? Maybe different burgers for each state?
We know we'll be watching
Design & Thinking, a new documentary about design thinking, whenever it comes to a theater near us. A
Bay Area screening, please?
An oldie but a goodie on simplicity, with a quote we love: "Nothing says Send Message like the words ‘Send Message.'"
Pick up milk
while you commute home? Peapod has created a
QR-code-powered grocery store aisle in a Chicago train station.
Tapping shortcuts on your phone: a 21st-century Morse code?