Data and Design:Revolution of present and future !!

I made a presentation today in front of my team and all went well and two of my C level executives complemented my presentation by saying you have made look numbers interesting.I actually used +Infographics  for the presentation.

It make me think that I used significant data but also infographics to make it look interesting.So the question which came to my mind is, which impressed my peers the data or the way I presented the data??

Data and design are both complementary according to  me if you ask but sometimes each of them individually also make significant impact.

Take the best example in hand +Google  and  +Apple Inc. .Two tech giants of our time and both of them have revolutionized the tech-scenario of our time and age.

On surface both of them may look similar type of organizations but essentially they are polar opposite. With Apple relying on design and Google worshiping data as their individual building blocks respectively.

Any +Apple iFans  will vouch for its superior design .... Apple products are  synonymous to great design. Whereas Google's every products based on meticulous research of data and that is the differentiating factor for them to it's competitor.Data is truly king of them!

But its hard to tell which is more useful, you just have to come up with the correct mix.Or may be in future +Steve Wozniak (Refer source : http://mashable.com/2013/11/03/steve-wozniak-apple-should-work-with-google-samsung/)wishful thinking of Apple and Google coming together may create a big bang impact.I guess time will tell!!!

+Steve Jobs  and Apple employees expressing their viewpoints on design...

 +Larry Page's inspiring speech on how dare to take risk and data/information resulted in Google's success...

Geeky Brands: shaping Lives !!

Feeling wonderful!! New job with new responsibilities and roles and faced the first real challenge today. Suddenly I was informed to give a presentation within 3 hours in a topic I know nothing of except the nomenclature in front of my super boss and super seniors team. And as a "starry-eyed" new member of corporate world I am to eager to impress my seniors and super boss with my sparkling diligent self.

But without any expertise and knowledge in  the concerned topic how to dazzle my corporate family members??

Well I blessed +Larry Page, +Sergey Brin ,+Larry Sanger, +Jimmy Wales , +Corry Jansen  and +Corry wagner , +Bill Gates  and +McKinsey & Company   reports with all my heart.

Without them how on earth I had survived and emerge successfully today ( and yes all my corporate family members were damn impressed by me).And coming back home I send a +LinkedIn  invitation to my super boss (which he accepted ).

All these events of today got me thinking these are not some +Louis Vuitton  bags or +GUCCI  watch which screams we are the brands to notice. But they are "The  Brands" we hardly can live without.

+Google , +Wikipedia ,Investopedia  and many others (open source free technologies) had made knowledge a commodity rather than a premium brand and at the same time had made our life luxurious with the ease of use and accessibility they are able to provide. Algorithms like Google Hummingbird are step towards future trends and lifestyle where voice search and generic queries (rather than content based queries) would be preferable by consumers.Because lets face it the future of smart technology is mobile.