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...
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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I've written before about how excited I am about the merger between Microsoft and Nokia. More so when the folks from Fleishman-Hillard kindly invited me to...
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....
We have three picks for you this week that hopefully epitomizes what we think are the coolest Industrial Design projects on Kickstarter. We hope you enjoy reading this article as much as we did selecting these projects! If you are running a crowd funding program...
Our 4th Introduction to Design Thinking Workshop 4 is finally back!
Though slightly delayed (we skipped our last one due to some administrative matters), we are now never more ready to facilitate 2 days of awesome design...
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...
When we iterated in a Design Process, it is actually a refinement activity where one evolution gives way to the next evolution. However when developing a design, especially when the design is complex, a simple iteration does not deal with the myriad of other...
When Tim Brown said that ”design is getting big again”, he meant that Design is moving (or has moved, in my humble opinion) from a form giving exercise and into the boardroom where is have become...
Design Sojourn was originally conceptualized to live on the confluence of the Internet and Industrial Design. As such, one of the biggest shakers to bubble up from this confluence is the crowd-funding platform Kickstarter. Kickstarter is changing the way we design and make...
I'm going to be presenting at the 4th Pecha Kucha Night here in Singapore and speaking about "How design makes people's lives better".
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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. ...
I was presently surprised to find out that Chip Kidd presented at TED. ...
Often designers design stuff (products/services/interfaces etc.): to fit user personas, to solve problems, to make it beautiful etc. but don't often consider the how it psychologically interfaces with the user. Such user experience design draws heavily from human psychological behaviors that are a result...
This Dumpling Steamer by Hong Kong based Homeware maker Jia (It means "Home" in Mandarin) really appeals to me. They have managed to reinterpret and modernize this iconic product, and yet still maintain its simplicity,...
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...
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...
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. ...
It's funny. As a kid I loved riding bikes. What I loved even more was tinkering with them. I had this classic Chopper (you know, with that smaller front wheel?) that I hacked...
You would probably have caught wind of Sir Jony Ive's rare interview with the London Evening Standard by now. I was not planning to blog about this as I figured that this would just become...