December 28, 2010
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Designing Designers
Don’t Keep Calm and Carry On, Get Excited and Make Things!
As designer Matt Jones says, "don't keep calm and carry on", we should instead:
As designer Matt Jones says, "don't keep calm and carry on", we should instead:
Let the design team be the design experts. Your job is to be the business expert. Ask them how their design solutions meet your business goals. If you trust your design team, and they can explain how their recommendations map to those goals, you’re fine.
I have a small confession. I only managed to watch Inception on the plane 3 weeks ago. Despite my fears of an over-hyped movie, I thoroughly enjoyed it! There are very few movies these days that require an audience to think deeply,
It does look like the designers of the new MySpace logo tackled the same issue as I did with my Spaces for Ideas brand. How do you represent a negative (or empty) space
My decision to buy a new 13" MacBook Air (2010) was quite an arduous one. I went through rounds of intensive research before I decided to take the plunge.
A cool video compilation of design quotes from design luminaries as well as the clients of interaction design consultancy Vostok. If only we all had clients like Vostok's
It is with a heavy heart that I have to announce that I have decided to put the Spaces for Ideas Collection 2 on hold indefinitely. After taking a hard look at the new prototypes, I am unable to get the design and marketing mix right.
I’m surprised to see two similar designs have won the 2010 iF Concept Award. The Easy Needle (left) and the Ppin Needle (right) were both created by students from Zhejiang University
Christmas comes early for all Design Sojourn readers! It is indeed the season of giving, but more on that
Forget Black Friday, if you are reading this, it is now time for the Spaces for Ideas Cyber Monday Sale! Well at least in my timezone it is (+8 GMT).
It has been far too long since I have written an update on this project. I have been so caught up in setting up and running Design Sojourn Consulting that my own produced (brand managed)
What a nice little pencil hack for workshop junkies!
I'm sure most of you would have probably heard of Scott Wilson's little entrepreneurship adventure on Kickstarter, the TikTok and LunaTik iPod Nano watch? FastCo Design, then Cool Hunting and Gizmodo picked up the project
Dmitry Fadeyev on Google's decision to remove the “http://” portion of the URL in Chrome’s address bar. But see, this is one of those things that just doesn’t matter. Design isn’t about cutting waste—that’s too easy. Waste is something that has no value, so identifying and
You know the kind of products I'm talking about.
The type of product that contains design elements (like that speaker grill) that you spent the last 7 years as a designer
Dylan Tweney, a senior editor at Wired.com, wrote on The Atlantic:
This awesome infographic (after the jump below), created by the team at Focus, predicts that Tablets (iPad et al.) will be the future of computing. According to the data, 14% of online shoppers intent to purchase an iPad in the next five months.
I'm pretty impressed with the Klhip Nail Clipper. The product is testament that "Form Follows Function" can produce beautiful (instead of boring) products. I love the mechanical design and how it folds up tightly
Source: Frog Design
I realized that a Design Manager is not an easy role to play in today's design industry. How a design team gels together is very much affected by how the "boss" manages them.
More often than not, I see
It’s all up to your and your work.