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:
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.
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".
At the end of last year I was planning to write a post that was something like "The Best Products of 2009" or "The 2009 Product of the Year" or even "The Best Products of the Decade". After asking my twitter friends and designers
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
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
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
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. <img
Joe Duffy's "Demystifying Design: An Argument for Simplicity" is a great little piece that calls out Design like it should be. Here is my favorite bit:
What is design? It begins with ideas--ideas based in purpose. It requires a plan or a process. It
Many of us have been taught in design school to be very user focused when seeking design solutions. However if you have been in the industry as long as I have, there is this insidious sickness that tends to influence this fundamental approach we
The last time we spoke about Design and the stock market in my post titled: Looks like Innovation moves Markets, not Design, I had a great response from Design Sojourn's awesome readers.
So I think this
A while ago I worked with a colleague that was a huge fan of Six Sigma. Six Sigma is a set of statistical and analytical tools use to measure and track the efficiency of a business or operations. My colleague was fanatical in
David Sherwin on his very cool ChangeOrder blog writes that:
Good design is the enemy of great design. This isn't to say that good design gets in the way of great design, since the latter is only possible when surrounded by the former. But our hardest
iPod Touch marketed and positioned as a Pocket Computer
I’m a firm believer that a good design strategy expresses the a product’s marketing concept, or great marketing should be a reflection of a design’s intent. They
Check out this very well written article by Dan Harding President of Whipsaw on “Doing More With Less: Using the Down Economy as a Design Brief”. Here is a snippet:
Contrary to logic, a good economy compromises quality more than a bad one. In good
Very fun concept iPhone App for Design Managers by Lunchbreath.
Via: Core 77
I repaired a gramophone from 1910: The mechanism was broken. Therefore I attached my Iphone to the horn with a soft foam connective piece over the Iphone’s loudspeaker. This results in a wonderful sounds, especially
A couple of weeks ago I posted a link on my Twitter account that lead to a write up by Bruce Nussbaum on The Latest Trends in Design and Innovation--And Why The Debate
Dev Patnaik, in his well written article at Fast Company, reminds me of a big problem with Design Thinking: vagueness in its definition. Even here at Design Sojourn, we have tried, with limited success, to discuss and dissect its definition. Patnaik does not
Image: Economy of Innovation by Smart Design. Click here for a larger size.
When I first saw this interesting illustration created by Smart Design, it did not resonate with me. Thus I only forwarded the image via my usual<a