January 26, 2012
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Industrial Design
If this is an Automatic Door, Why do I need to Press to Open?
Why indeed?
Why indeed?
I'm really excited to finally be able to announce an exciting project that we have been passionately working on since August last year (2011)! Design Sojourn was commissioned by Design Singapore,
We are two weeks deep into the New Year and I am sure all of you have already hit the ground running. If you are anything like me, then you probably either forgotten
January is often abuzz with 3 things: New Year resolutions, trends and forecasts for the year, and CES. I'll leave CES to the CES PR engines, because as designers, if you just focus on CES you will be a year too late. So if you want
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IA Collaborative, has tried to do the impossible, and that is to define the meaning of Design. Or rather, they have taken the effort to gather the different definitions
Is this a Blackjack table? Image from TiPb.
Cliff Kuang, in his Fast Co Design article on The 6 Pillars of Steve Jobs' Design Philosophy, talks about Jobs "finding simplicity for the future in metaphors
I've found that one of the big reasons why Design Thinking fails in organizations, is that no one has the guts to stand up and say that an idea/concept/proposition sucks.
This point is an extension of our
Jens Martin Skibsted and Rasmus Bech Hansen claims, at Fast Co. Design, that 3 of the 4Ps of Marketing (Pricing, Promotion and Place or Distribution) are dead. It's now a 1P Marketing world where everything should revolve around the Product.
Lorna Ross, a design manager at Mayo Clinic’s Center for Innovation (That's a place I would love to visit!), shares with Helen Walters insights on running a small design team within a very large organization. Lots of great tips and insights filled with wisdom
Image by Martin F. Ramin for The Wall Street Journal
It was reported by the Wall Street Journal that the executives at Heinz spent 3 years developing a new larger ketchup
James Higgs writes an interesting article about the inconsistencies of Apple's aesthetic. In one corner you have Apple's sublime and minimal industrial design where every corner or radii has been considered.
These devices have become increasingly simple and pared down, even as the power contained
One of the challenges of implementing Design Thinking is that Design Thinking can come across as a rather intellectual and academic exercise. Strange terminologies, divergent activities, new processes etc; who can blame them for thinking
I was actually quite surprised to find myself deep undercover in Design Thinking activities in the last 12 months. The great thing was that these activities were varied, spanning from running Design Thinking workshops, developing
Encourage by great feedback and awesome participants, we will be running our 2nd Introduction to Design Thinking Workshop on the 1st and 2nd of December 2011!
The workshop will be run in a
Image: October 2011, by Tess Sammarco
How time flies? It has already been just over a year since I left my cushy (well not that cushy) corporate job
John Gruber, from Daring Fireball, tells it like it is. For example, his thought on people wishing for larger 4-inch iPhone screens:
Apple decided on the optimal size for an iPhone display back in 2006. If they thought 4-inches was better, overall, as the
This morning I work up to the sad news of the passing of Steve Jobs. Though I expected it, I had hoped it would never come. As the world
Harry Marks writes a very insightful piece on what Apple has done or will do for the computing industry in a Lion, iOS 5 and iCloud environment.
To some, it means Apple has locking you in to its “walled garden”. To others, the company is giving
While preparing for our Introduction to Design Thinking Workshop next week, I stumbled over a nice little infographic by Prof. Ralf Beuker, that clearly spells out the relationship between
Work like a slave; command like a king; create like a god. ~ Constantin BrâncuşiI had almost forgotten this quote, one of my favorites, by Romanian-born sculptor Constantin Brâncuşi. It was, and still is, my motto for success for any designer