I'm not sure if I should jump for joy, laugh or cry? Perhaps I should just sit dumbfounded. Forbes recently reported a new trend in Silicon Valley; Venture Capitalists are now funding Start-Ups with no idea what they are going to do. Sounds like...
In Chapter 13 of the Steve Jobs Biography, Walter Isaacson describes how in the creation of the first Mac, Jobs formed a development team that operated outside of the boundaries of the Apple organization and was filled with people that "were creative, wickedly smart, and...
So I missed the Microsoft Surface launch big time. It was only recently that I managed to have a look at what this product means to the industry.
Peter Bright, at ArsTechnica, writes an insightful...
I agree.
I frequently work with small to medium sized businesses (including boot-strapping start-ups) and have to adopt a similar frugal mindset. Sometimes these quick solutions can create value that can go a long way. ...
Innovation, and even Design Thinking, often gets killed by organizational processes or internal politics. Here is a really cool cartoon that shows you how it happens so that at least, we can all be vigilant....
Ingo Rauth, a friend of Design Sojourn and graduate of our Designer Mentoring Program back in 2009, shares a wonderful find on his blog: A 1972 made for Herman Miller video interview on Design with...
If you have not read the Steve Jobs Biography by Walter Isaacson, the next best thing would probably be this video by Adam Lashinsky, Senior Editor-at-large at Fortune. ...
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. ...
Ton Borsboom, my ex-colleague at GE/Fitch (a General Electric and Fitch joint venture in Asia), and now Senior Director at Philips Design Consulting, shares his view about how design and designers need to be connectors in today's business by reaching across all touch points and...
Guy Kawasaki, at a Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Lecture Series at Stamford, shares insights on why start-up businesses should tell a story and plant many seeds. I believe that any company (not just start-ups) interested in getting their...
Oh how did I miss this? The Design the New Business documentary, aired first in Asia at the recent Design Film Festival 2011, is now available online and shamelessly embedded here. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...