Forget ‘users’ and focus on the 7 steps to make your organization ‘memberful’ How designing a meaningful member experience creates durable initiatives The best route to a sustainable organization AtMomkai, the strategic design agency that I founded 18 years ago, my team and I have helped founders and changemakers to transform their branding, digital products, and launch events. Through our projects, especially in our recent collaboration withNew York University and professor Jay Rosen’sMembership Puzzle Project, we’ve learned that it’s “memberful” initiatives which lead to the richest user experiences, and provide the bestroute to sustainabilityfor organizations in our constantly changing world....

Styling forms is an almost universally dreaded phase of the web design process. They’re a pain to work with, they make it hard to get a consistent look going across browsers, and to add to the nuisance there are two militant camps about whether or not forms should be styled for consistency or for operating system interface compliance battling endlessly. Take one headache out of the process withFormalize, a framework that makes all of your form elements look not only consistent across browsers, but cleaner too....

The Gordon Murray Group (GMG), founded by the former Formula One designer,announcedyesterday a detailed£300 million ($424 million), five-year expansion plan. Most notably, part of this investment will fund the creation of a new business unit, Gordon Murray Electronic (GME), that will develop advanced electrified powertrains for global carmakers and tech companies. “The automotive future will be increasingly electrified and it’s essential that we design the world’s lightest, most efficient, and advanced EVs,” Murray said....

Douglas Merrilljoined Google in late 2003, and the VP of Engineering and CIO jumped ship to join EMI in April 2008. He resigned almost a year later, before going on to foundZestCash. During his keynote speech at this year’s annualCA Expo in Sydney, Merrill stated that punishing and demonizing file-sharers isn’t a good idea. And contrary to assertions that music pirates are bad for business, he revealed that previous profiling research that he carried out whilst at EMI discovered that LimeWire file-sharers were in fact iTunes’ biggest customers....

A former Microsoft board member and manager fired for allegedly kissing a colleague at a company conference and then denying the incident, has sued the company after it had originally issued a complaint to reclaim holiday pay and a signing on bonus following the dismissal. Bloomberg reportsthat Simon Negus, former Microsoft general manager at the company’s UK unit, was dismissed in September after an incident at Microsoft’s annual conference in July 2009....