The Business Week design innovation section is fast becoming one of my favourite reads (Just ignore the blogs!). Recently they featured the strategic redesign of a computer mouse for Kensington Technology Group. More on my thoughts after the jump. Focus on Emotion Having product designers
Edit: This does not apply to ALL designers, but it does apply to some that I have met and spoke too, I have also fixed some typos and cleared up some statements. Managing designers is not easy, some are quiet, some rant and rave, and
No they don’t suck, but my wife might say otherwise with me! Bruce Nussbaum, of Business Week fame, decided that “designers suck” during his recent presentation at Parsons New School of Design. What started as a NextD email me asking what I thought about this
The Strategy Paradox is an interesting book written by Michael Raynor on why certain strategies adopted by certain companies are successful and why some are not. Interesting simply because it directly reflects what I am facing in my industry. However the replies he
Something that has always been a career hazard for a designer is being out in front, absorbing information, and then synthesizing to predict what the next big consumer trends are. Trendwatching.com is a great site that does a lot of this data gathering work for you
One thing I have noticed about software companies, something that hardware companies figured out years ago, was they could not design or do everything. In April 1999 Flextronics announced that it would purchase a second manufacturing facility from Ericsson. Perhaps not the best example here,
I was amazed to find out how extensive the Cult of Mac's influences are over the many products they cover. Even though the Apple Newton PDA was killed by Steve Jobs shortly after he re-joined Apple in 1998, the Newton community continues to defy all
Designers always suffer with managing and showing their design "works in progress". The problem is usually designers don't get the feedback they want, or do too much and miss the dateline, or they do too little and the client feels they are not getting
Who would not want to belief in it? As far as anyone can tell it's the best way to sell to today's over-informed hyper-consumer. However even after extolling the virtues of it in my post "The Art of the Very Small Start",
Simple, by using design prototypes. Which was what this product is. Make it, test it, then sell the hell out of it! One of the reasons, in the past few months why occasionally my postings have been intermittent is that my design team and I were
Check out this cute little product that my design team and I developed. Seem to have some really great reviews, here's the our link love and link Karma to those that featured it: If you've been looking for a portable DVD player that's a little
Huge news! Creative has beaten Apple! Apple Computer and Creative Technology have agreed to settle their legal dispute over music player patents for $100 million, the companies announced Wednesday. I'm sure this is old news by now. I'm not really surprised if you ask me, a lot
Seeing double? Via Engadget Of all the intensely competitive consumer electronics markets, the one that rules them all is as the personal digital entertainment one. With all the ultra-informed, hyper-consumer in the market today, I am surprised to find companies that continue to take this path and
I recently have had a lot of meetings with vendors and engineers trying to get our designs realized. Each time after the different meetings, I noticed that there is still a great divide between the workings of engineers and designers. It's really not about the
For me another one of my yearly activities is hiring designer talents. This year is no exception. As always this also leads me to figure out how am I able to retain these talents that I hire. In the case of designers or even the
Sorry for the slight slow down in the blog posts recently as it has been very busy for me working late at my day job in the last couple of weeks. It is the time of year where companies worry about what they are
I must say The Singapore Entrepreneurs Blog is fast becomming one of my favourite blogs to read. Their recent post on patents has encouraged me to post my alternative take on patents. This is something that is actually practiced at my company, a SME (Small
I'm sure most of you have already started noticing Google's little foray of multiple thing-a-ma-jigs with their free web based products like flickr, gmail, picasa, earth, etc. You can get the comprehensive and staggering list here. I did not even realise that they own Blogger! I