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Design Thinking or just Thinking?

Edit 1: Tim is from Frog! Sorry Tim! Edit 2: Completely forgot to highlight, original seed concept "Just Plain Old Thinking" is from csven of rebang. Edit 3: Lesson: Blog when awake! Duh! Tim Leberecht, Frog Design's VP of Marketing, has written about Design Thinking and how

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Has Design Evolved since Papanek?

Such legendary negativity. There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a very few of them. And possibly only one profession is phonier. Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don’t need, with money they don’t have, in order to impress others

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A Designer's Secret Weapon: Active Listening

Image Source: Listen to ME! One of the key skills I noticed great designers have is the ability to engage in Active Listening. I was lucky. I managed to pick up this skill 6-7 years ago in a training seminar and it has been vital in

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A Good Strategy is like a Good Movie

The title of this quick post came up in a recent discussion I had with a business partner. After further reflection, I find this very true. It is applicable to all forms of strategy including design. So let me reword this: A good

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Blog Action Day 2008 – Poverty (and Design)

October 15, is Blog Action Day 2008! This is where bloggers from around the world get together to talk about a common theme or topic. This year's topic is about Poverty, and as Design Sojourn is a design blog, it will be about

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"Flatshare" wins Electrolux Design Lab 2008

I don't really do this sort of thing often, but check out this worthy forehead slapping idea that really makes one say "why did I not think of that"? Stefan Buchberger, from the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria, has been chosen winner of the Electrolux

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More Stefan on TED

Last time I wrote about Stefan's book and how I bought one. Here he is again, in a short blurb on TED, where he runs through some of the things he has learn in his life so far. Oh, a kind person has compiled what Stefan has

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Industrial Design and The Branding Mad Men

It's about time, the (M)Ad Men figured that out. Well they sort of did before and there always been Industrial Designers in advertising and branding. But much of the focus then was on packaging design, and Industrial Design was often seen as nothing

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Better Time to Market with Rapid Manufacturing

We have an interesting Design Article contribution this week by Chris Nobles, an Industrial Designer working for HJC Design in the UK. He write today about Rapid Manufacturing and its impact on our product development process. A great read with lots of technical

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Designers must Develop Critical Insight

Image source: Insight One of the key factors I noticed in any successful product and/or design, was that the product's designer had some kind of critical insight. It is this "ah-hah!", this "Wow!", this "Eureka" moment that can turn any design into a great one. It

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Do Designers Visualize or Articulate?

I have always liked to use the term "Strategy Visualization" as an activity for designers to solidify, by design, a company's business strategy. So recently, I was having a chat with my boss about getting some "visualizations" done for a design strategy by our client.

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Where do you Think?

Dear Designers, Where do you Think? What level should we be playing at? What sort of conversations should we be having? Think about it? Sincerely, DT

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Tasty Books I Bought this Weekend!

I hate going to bookstores as I always end up spending money! This weekend was no different as I bought two books that I've been looking for! Cost me just over $90 Singapore dollars. Things I Have Learned in My Life so Far by

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Has Chinese Design Arrived?

In my opinion, design in China has leapfrogged ahead faster than the West did. But have they arrived? I recently stumbled over a interesting interview, "Taking the Pulse of Chinese Design" with Jia Wei the founder of LKK Design. Here are some of the good bits. Q:

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The Lifecycle of a Designer: Part 2

Thanks for all the great comments and input you have left from Part 1. It has really given me a great insight to what you want to see here on Design Sojourn. So onwards to Part 2! In the Part 1 we looked at the hierarchy

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