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December 16, 2020 In About Design Sojourn

We are Hiring Experience Designers and Design Thinkers (2021)

we_are_hiring Design Sojourn is an exciting strategic design consultancy passionate in helping our clients leverage on Design Led Innovation to make people's lives better. We have openings for Designers or Design Researchers with a strong background in...

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January 28, 2020 In About Design Sojourn

We are Hiring (2020)

we_are_hiring Design Sojourn is an exciting strategic design consultancy passionate in helping our clients leverage on Design Led Innovation to make people's lives better. We have openings for Designers or Design Researchers with a strong background in...

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November 4, 2019 In Design Process

The Design Thinking Process Paradox

Designers or Design Thinkers often like to think that they require a certain level of “freedom” to allow their creativity to flourish.  Indeed, the best ideas come when the mind is free from distractions: particularly in places like the shower or when you are just...

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August 7, 2018 In Design Leadership

Zero to One: Find a Niche and Own it!

I really like Zero to One by Peter Thiel.  So much so, that I'm slowly reading it chapter by chapter to internalize the information. If you are interested in how game-changing strategies behind new products and services are conceptualized, this book is for you.  I particularly like his...

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July 10, 2018 In Articles, Design Leadership, Design Process

Design Thinking Singapore’s Future: What is Holding Us Back from Change?

A few weeks ago, the Prime Minister of Singapore, Mr. Lee Hsien Loong said: "Good design thinking was a key reason for Singapore’s successful journey from a third world country to first, and it will be critical in the country's future transformation…” Indeed, Singapore is where...

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February 23, 2017 In Articles, Design Leadership

Is Your Business Ready for Innovation?

Some of you might be familiar with the Diffusion of Innovation. It is a theory that seeks to explain how new ideas and technology spread and is typically used to explain consumers’ adoption of technology. Through our course of work, we’ve come to realise this...

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February 23, 2017 In Workshop

What is Design Worth? A Masterclass on Design’s Value

  Our partners Methodology.sg is running an awesome Masterclass workshop called: DESIGN LEADERSHIP: How to Identify and Communicate the Value of Design. Details as follows: Design as a Strategy is the next big thing. Enlightened companies such as Apple, Dyson and PepsiCo have bet on Design and won. But to...

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October 30, 2015 In Articles

(Re)building Trust in the Healthcare System

Earlier this month, it was reported that 22 patients in a renal ward of the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) have been infected with the deadly hepatitis C virus. 4 have since died. The current prognosis is that it was likely due to cross-contamination...

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August 3, 2015 In Design Leadership

Is this the End of Windows?

Great article by Benedict Evans who shares a lot of good information on why Microsoft is going to die. The apps that people want on smartphones are not being written for desktop Windows anyway. Uber doesn't have a desktop Windows app, and neither does Instacart, Pinterest...

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July 15, 2015 In Design Leadership, Designing Designers

The Most Important Skill All Design Thinkers Must Have

Connecting the Dots Photo Source: Flickr It is the ability to identify patterns of insights and "connect the dots" in a meaningful way. ...

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July 7, 2015 In Design Leadership

Dealing with Feedback

150706.creativecritics-550x402 Tom Fishburne shares a pretty funny comic on how to give and receive feedback. While this is from a Marketing standpoint, we can (as designers) also learn from this....

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April 12, 2015 In About Design Sojourn

We are Hiring

we_are_hiring Design Sojourn is an exciting strategic design consultancy passionate in helping our clients leverage on Design Led Innovation to make people's lives better. We have openings for Designers or Design Researchers with a strong background in...

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April 4, 2015 In Articles

12 Thoughts on Implementing Design Thinking in Your Organization

A few simple observations on how you can implement Design Thinking in your or any organization large or tiny. These observations have been validated time and time again during my continual involvement with this activity. ...

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March 30, 2015 In About Design Sojourn

What is the Design Agency of the Future?

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The last 6 months had been a busy time for the team at Design Sojourn. So I have to apologize for the limited updates on this blog. One thing I am happy to announce is that we...

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November 21, 2014 In Design Leadership

When is Design Led Innovation Not Right for You?

We always want the best for our clients, so one of our key business tenets is teach our client's to fish. You know the old saying, "give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed...

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November 6, 2014 In Design Leadership

Implementing Design Thinking 4: It is a Full Time Activity!

This happens all the time. After a game-changing workshop, where a whole host of innovative ideas underpinned by ethnographic research get plotted on an actionable plan, I call back a few months later to find out that...

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August 25, 2014 In Design Leadership, Industrial Design

Using Design to Build a Great Brand

Robert Brunner (the man more commonly known as the person who hired Jonathan Ives) has achieved something that I always hope to achieve with the clients I work with. He has helped a fledging company build an awesome brand and thrive in a competitive market thought...

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May 27, 2014 In Articles

Is Good Design Making us Stupid?

Jeremy Keith writes: Convenience. Ease of use. Seamlessness. On the face of it, these all seem like desirable traits in digital and physical products alike. But they come at a price. When we design, we try to do the work so that the user doesn’t have to....

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May 7, 2014 In About Design Sojourn, Industrial Design

Next to the Skin : 8 Weeks, 10 Wearable Concept Designs and Everything Else in Between!

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I'm super excited to share that tomorrow marks the launch of one of the biggest projects we have led and worked on to date. In partnership with ETPL, we brought to...

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February 27, 2014 In Design Process, Industrial Design

Paul Rand on Art and Aesthetics

What a great snippet of a 1996 film by Preston McLanahan. I really like how Paul Rand bridges the gap between art, aesthetics, form, content and ultimately design....

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About Design Sojourn

We are Hiring Experience Designers and Design Thinkers (2021)

Design Sojourn is a proven Design Led Innovation Consultancy passionate in radically transforming lives.  We are growing our team in 2021!…

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