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I've written before about how excited I am about the merger between Microsoft and Nokia. More so when the folks from Fleishman-Hillard kindly invited me to
When Tim Brown said that ”design is getting big again”, he meant that Design is moving (or has moved, in my humble opinion) from a form giving exercise and into the boardroom where is have become
I was shocked how hard it was preparing for Pecha Kucha Night. Even after seven iterations, I was still not done! Despite being a seasoned presenter, Pecha Kucha was a brand new experience and
So it looks like The Designer Fund, a VC fund that specifically invests in Startup companies that have designers as founders is starting to gain traction.
Often designers design stuff (products/services/interfaces etc.): to fit user personas, to solve problems, to make it beautiful etc. but don't often consider the how it psychologically interfaces with the user. Such user experience design draws heavily from human psychological behaviors that are a result
You would probably have caught wind of Sir Jony Ive's rare interview with the London Evening Standard by now. I was not planning to blog about this as I figured that this would just become
Our Facebook fans had a little treat last week, when they caught wind of Design Sojourn's new look. Developed together with my friends from Black Design, this rebranding initiative was targeted to coincide with our
As the wave of SOPA and PIPA protests die down, it’s time to take stock of the implications such legislatures can have on the design community.
Please do take my thoughts with a pinch of
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
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
Here is something slightly off the beaten track today. Technology is one of the key drivers of change today, in particular, it changes the way we live and work. Designers, being mostly
It is actually a perfect time to update your portfolio!
Not only are we somewhere in the middle of the year, we are right smack in the middle of summer and it’s blistering out there! Lazing
In the last few months most of you would have read the endless press about Apple’s multiple lawsuits filed against their competitors claiming that they are stealing their intellectual property. Not only that, countless of
Sometime in 2006, I decided that if I were going to be designing commercially successful products and strategies, I would need to know what it is really like to run a business, a business that would
Good sketching skills are important in any design process, and something truly needed in the design industry today. While working in the design industry, I have seen many young designers give
I'm sure most of you have heard the news about the Nokia and Microsoft alliance. Nokia announced that it has decided to use the Windows Phone 7 as their primary Smartphone platform. Their
The Design Currency Logo by Jeff Harrison.
Over the recent Chinese New Year holidays, I met a very well traveled designer. We were discussing the pitfalls of running a design consultancy, and that conversation eventually led to consulting business models.
He basically said,
I'm sure all of you have noticed the huge flood of tablet computers in this year’s 2011 CES event in Las Vegas. Not only was it part of my dinner conversation some nights
Good design and designers everywhere, just browse the Internet and you will see. From the comfort of your laptop you can consume the hottest cars, furniture, digital cameras, laptops or mobile phones etc. Sure there are some great designs, but the rest of the majority
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.