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September 7, 2012 In Design Leadership, Design Process, Designing Designers

What is the Problem with Digital Design?

Tucker Marion, Sebastian Fixson and Marc H. Meyer, writes a wonderful piece for the MIT Sloan Management Review on the challenges of Digital Design without good Design Management. Here is an excerpt:

So, what’s the problem? There are potentially two. First, because the technology makes...

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August 28, 2012 In Design Leadership, Entrepreneurship

VCs Fund Startups with No Ideas – A Perverse take on the Design Thinking Process

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...

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August 8, 2012 In Design Leadership

Apple's Swashbuckling Product Development Style

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...

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August 3, 2012 In Design Leadership

Microsoft has sent a Warning Shot to the OEMs

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...

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July 9, 2012 In Design Leadership

Jugaad, or Frugal, Innovation is not really Innovation

jugaad innovation 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. ...

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July 3, 2012 In Design Leadership

How Companies Kill Innovation

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....

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June 19, 2012 In Design Leadership

A Design Interview with Charles Eames from 1972!

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...

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June 12, 2012 In Design Leadership

The Secrets at Apple's Core

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. ...

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May 9, 2012 In Articles, Design Leadership, Entrepreneurship

What it Means to Have a Designer as a Startup Founder

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. ...

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April 11, 2012 In Design Leadership

Design is a Connector in Business

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...

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April 10, 2012 In Design Leadership, Entrepreneurship

Businesses should Tell a Story and Plant Many Seeds

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...

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April 2, 2012 In Design Leadership

Go Ahead, Design the New Business

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. ...

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January 11, 2012 In Design Leadership

Frog Design's Tech Trends of 2012

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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December 7, 2011 In Design Leadership

We Will Have to Deal with Defining Design, yet Again!

Click for a larger image. 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...

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November 17, 2011 In Design Leadership

Implementing Design Thinking 2: Have the Guts to Say it Sucks

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...

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November 14, 2011 In Design Leadership

They say 3 of the 4Ps of Marketing are Dead

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. ...

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November 9, 2011 In Design Leadership

20 Ways to Protect and Nurture Design

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...

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October 25, 2011 In Design Leadership

Implementing Design Thinking 1: Focus on the Outcome not the Process

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...

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October 24, 2011 In Articles, Design Leadership

Implementing Design Thinking: A Blog Series

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...

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October 14, 2011 In Design Leadership, Industrial Design

Why the iPhone 4S Happened Instead of the iPhone 5

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...

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