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July 7, 2010 In Design Leadership

How Steve Jobs turned Apple around in 1997

This speech probably took a lot of guts to deliver to the Apple faithful, and not surprisingly much of it was followed with of boos and jeers. However the thing to note...

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July 6, 2010 In Design Leadership

We should Ban the Word Innovation

Scott Berkun, author of "The Myths of Innovation", shares on the Economist why we should all ban the word innovation. He writes:

Einstein, Ford, Picasso and Edison rarely said the word innovation and neither should you. Every Fortune 500 crowd I've said this to...

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June 28, 2010 In Design Leadership

Strategy's Golden Rule

Umair Haque, Director of the Havas Media Lab, writes:

What your fiercest rival does badly, do incredibly well.
It makes so perfect sense, that it is painful when people don't seem to follow it. Anyone who is serious about winning starts of by looking at how...

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June 2, 2010 In Design Leadership

iPad came before the iPhone

Awesome Engadget live blog covering an Interview with Steve Jobs at D8. It just ended. I found this little nugget very interesting: Steve: And same thing on the tablet. I remember telling you I thought handwriting was the slowest input method ever. We re-imagined...

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May 4, 2010 In Design Leadership, Industrial Design

Microsoft Kin is User Centered Innovation at its Best

I’m sure most of you have heard of the Microsoft Kin by now. Furthermore you would probably have moaned about how this product lacked innovation and how it was a failure in strategy to...

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May 1, 2010 In Design Leadership

The Three Minute Rule to better Understand the Consumer

Anthony Tjan shares:

While there are obvious ways to gain significant customer understanding, such as surveys and focus groups, some of the most interesting insights come from less direct analyses. Take our three-minute rule as an example. You can learn a great deal about customers by...

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April 28, 2010 In About Design Sojourn, Design Leadership

Time for Designers to get Back to Basics!

Tools for Sketching Image by Plindberg I would like to take a moment from my daily grind to share something that I have been considering for a long time now. I seem to be doing a lot of that lately eh? Fellow designers,...

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April 9, 2010 In Design Leadership, Industrial Design

Apple Executives have Balls of STEEL!

The world is all in a frenzy with the launch of the iPad. Even I could not help but get caught up in the madness. I have been reading a whole host of articles...

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April 7, 2010 In Design Leadership

User Centered Innovation is not going make us Sustainable

As Roberto points out, this is because people, are not sustainable in their DNA make up, especially when the harsh reality of the world (budgets, health, wellness etc.) gets in the way. This is also probably because it is human nature for people to...

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March 21, 2010 In Design Leadership, Designing Designers

Hartmut Esslinger – A Fine Line

The last time we mentioned A Fine Line was when we took a look a Hartmut Esslinger's interview by Guy Kawasaki. This time I have a little treat to share with you. The founder of Frog Design himself sharing a few words of wisdom...

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March 16, 2010 In Design Leadership

Innovation is Getting Out From Under a Street Lamp

Post-it Jaguar by Scott Ableman Legendary 3M inventor of the Post-it Note, Art Fry, shares his words of wisdom on innovation, creativity and getting disruptive products into the market. A wonderful read for all innovators, designers and entrepreneurs.

Q – Fact...

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March 11, 2010 In Design Leadership

Design's Return on Investment

Looks like China is getting it when it comes to design. In a recent interview on the local Chinese CCTV, Chen Dongliang, Director of the Beijing Industrial Design Center, has highlighted the tremendous economic value of Industrial Design to China's economy.

The output value of industrial...

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February 13, 2010 In Design Leadership

iPad a Stroke of Genius or Just a Stroke?

Unless you have been living under a rock recently, I’m sure you would have heard of the Apple iPad. Pretty much everyone has. So much so that there has been a lot said about...

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February 12, 2010 In Design Leadership, Designing Designers

Only God is T-Shaped

I have been thinking about T-Shaped Designers for a long time now. How to be one, what does being one really mean and how effective can one be. Made popular sometime in 2005 by IDEO's Tim Brown, T-Shape Designers are defined as:

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February 5, 2010 In Design Leadership

User Centered Innovation is Dead

With a cheeky little link to Tom Kelly's The Art of Innovation, Roberto Verganti (author of Design Driven Innovation) suggests in not so many words that User Centered Innovation, IDEO's claim to fame, is dead. ...

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January 23, 2010 In Design Leadership

Design Thinking 101 at the Stanford d.school

Ever wondered what design thinking is all about? The Stanford d.school has shared, with the world, the basics of design thinking as taught in their introductory class called the "design thinking bootcamp".

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December 20, 2009 In Design Leadership

Don Norman believes Technology comes first, User Needs Last. What?

Yep. That's what Donald Norman (of Design of Everyday Things fame) wrote in his latest essay on his blog. You get the gist of his view in this introductory paragraph:

I've come to a disconcerting conclusion: design research is great when it comes...

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November 18, 2009 In Design Leadership

How Japanese Culture influences their Designs

I stumbled over a really interesting interview of Kenya Hara by Oliver Reichenstein from iA or information architects. This interview was part of a New York Times feature on a new fad in the US, making Japanese Bento boxes. Kenya explains...

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October 27, 2009 In Design Leadership

Design Leadership is about Asking the Right Questions

This morning, my colleague pointed me in the direction of this great little New York Times interview with Tim Brown, the chief executive and president of IDEO. (Wow, he even gets on the NY Times!) In the interview, Tim shares that (design) leadership is not...

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October 22, 2009 In Design Leadership

The Golden Age of Design has Come!

While all the fan boys were getting Macgasms over the new 27" iMac or the Macbook with the sausage shaped profile, I was interested in only one thing: Apple's financial results. I tweeted my response on my twitter stream. Here's a screen-shot.

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