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September 19, 2013 In Design Leadership

What is the Value of Design?

The British Design Council has found that every £1 spent on design gives you over £20 in increased revenue, £4 increased profit and £5 in increased exports. A very nice and handy statistic to be liberally used in your next discussion with a business...

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May 29, 2013 In Design Leadership, Industrial Design

The Key to Creating a Great Killer Product

"The key for having a great killer product is to have incredible hardware, incredible software, and incredible services. And combine them in such away that you can tell what's what anymore. It becomes an elegant consumer experience. The real magic occurs in...

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April 13, 2013 In Design Leadership

Silent Design is Design without Designers

silent-design I so love this term. Apparently it was created by Peter Gorb and Angela Dumas for a London Business School paper:

“A great deal of design activity goes on in organizations which is not called design. It is carried...

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April 12, 2013 In Design Leadership

Why Nobody can Copy Apple

Well...

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April 9, 2013 In Articles, Design Leadership, Design Process

Anthropology of Television

The following guest post is written by Maurice McGinley, a friend and former colleague at Philips Design. While some of the points might be a little outdated, this post showcases a methodology of Design Research and Design Led Innovation that is practiced in companies...

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April 2, 2013 In Design Leadership

Design is the Spirit of Things

start-up-singapore-design-sojourn Image by Start-Up@Singapore. A few weekends ago, I gave seminar on Design Thinking to a number of entrepreneurs at the Start-up@Singapore competition. It was to help them acquire the skills as well as prepare their Start-up...

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March 31, 2013 In Design Leadership

You Don't Need to Beat Your Competitors, You Need Innovation.

I was both surprised and curious to find out that legendary business guru Michael Porter's multi-million dollar Monitor Group had filed for bankruptcy protection in November 2012. It was an interesting read for me as it highlights some of the problems of the business of consulting....

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March 21, 2013 In Design Leadership

Innovation Makes Existing Models Obsolete

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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. – Buckminster Fuller
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March 21, 2013 In Design Leadership

When You have the Technology for Disruptive Innovation, What Do You Do?

Chet Huber, former President and CEO of GM's ONStar, shares that the technology for disruptive innovation is a dangerous thing as the "...

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March 7, 2013 In Design Leadership

Orthodoxies in the Hotel Industry

This is interesting. On the 5th of March, Marriott International launched their Moxy brand of hotels at the Berlin International Hotel Investment Forum (IHIF). It is their first entry into the economy (read budget) 3 start hospitality segment that will span 150 Hotels in 10...

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February 27, 2013 In Design Leadership

Counter-Intuitive Rules of Design

Kontra over at counternotions writes:

There are many counterintuitive ‘rules’ in product design, these two are among the most intractable: • The more successful a product, the harder it’s to upgrade. • The more users say they want a product update, the more they complain when the change...

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February 7, 2013 In Design Leadership

Showrooming is Why the Retail Business needs Design Thinking

showrooming I chuckled at Tom Fishburne's Showrooming cartoon, partly because it was funny, and partly because it was so true. I do that all the time in bookstores; flip through the hardcopy and then buy the ebook. Unfortunately...

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January 7, 2013 In Design Leadership

IDEO founder David Kelley is on 60 Minutes

In a nice little interview on 60 Minutes, David Kelley shares his thoughts on IDEO, Design Thinking and Steve Jobs. The Design Thinking bit is very simplified, but some of the key points are there. You might have already seen it, but if...

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December 25, 2012 In Design Leadership

20 Technology Trends for 2013

Frog Design has graciously shared their 20 technology trends for 2013, which includes the usual suspects such as mainstreaming of 3D printing and the further humanising of technology. No big surprises, but still a good read anyway. Enjoy the slideshow after the jump!...

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November 12, 2012 In Design Leadership

Why Apple Launched a new iPad 4 Seven Months after iPad 3?

After all the moaning and groaning, who really knows why? Except probably Apple. Perhaps history can tell us why by taking a look at what Steve Jobs wrote two months after the iPhone debuted in 2007. ...

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November 1, 2012 In Design Leadership

Disruptive Innovation vs Incremental Innovation

Other than the fact that disruptive innovation creates jobs and incremental (efficiency) innovation destroys them, Clayton Christensen, the guru of disruptive innovation (a must read by the way!) said:

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October 30, 2012 In Design Leadership

Jony Ive now the Head of ALL Design at Apple

Remember how I did not buy that the role of product curator moves about at Apple? Well it's pretty clear. In a recent Press Release from Apple on increasing collaboration between hardware, software and services, we can see:

Jony Ive...

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October 10, 2012 In Design Leadership

Implementing Design Thinking 3: What Kind of Design Thinker are You?

Expanding on some of my ideas covered in my first post: Implementing Design Thinking 1: Focus on the Outcome not the Process, my next most frequent observation is that Design Thinkers tend to...

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October 10, 2012 In Design Leadership

Can Apple still Innovate after Jobs?

That's the billion dollar question.

But without Jobs, can Apple still innovate? George Colony of Forrester Research suggested in April that Apple will, like Sony after the death of its leader, Akio Morita, in 1999, decline: "When Steve Jobs departed, he took three things with him:...

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September 13, 2012 In Design Leadership

Bill Moggridge 1943 – 2012


Dear Bill, Thanks for everything! You will be missed. Warm Regards Brian.
(Check out the memorial videos after the jump.)...

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