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September 4, 2012 In About Design Sojourn

Introduction to Design Thinking Workshop 5: Now Updated!

We are now accepting applications for our 5th Introduction to Design Thinking workshop. I’m also happy to say that the workshop has been updated with new awesome content. We live and breath Design Thinking, so we took in the feedback and validation by...

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August 28, 2012 In Design Leadership, Entrepreneurship

VCs Fund Startups with No Ideas – A Perverse take on the Design Thinking Process

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...

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July 9, 2012 In Design Leadership

Jugaad, or Frugal, Innovation is not really Innovation

jugaad innovation 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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July 6, 2012 In Articles

Thoughts on the Nokia Lumia 900

Click on the image for a larger view. 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...

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July 3, 2012 In Design Leadership

How Companies Kill Innovation

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....

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July 3, 2012 In Industrial Design

Our Kickstarter Industrial Design Picks for Week 27

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...

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June 25, 2012 In About Design Sojourn

Join our Introduction to Design Thinking Workshop 4

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...

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June 19, 2012 In Design Leadership

A Design Interview with Charles Eames from 1972!

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...

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June 11, 2012 In Design Process

Design is also a Recursive Activity

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...

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May 29, 2012 In Articles

Design Manifesto 2012

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...

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May 22, 2012 In Industrial Design

Our Kickstarter Industrial Design Picks for Week 21

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...

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May 17, 2012 In About Design Sojourn

I'll be presenting at the next Pecha Kucha Singapore 2012!

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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May 9, 2012 In Articles, Design Leadership, Entrepreneurship

What it Means to Have a Designer as a Startup Founder

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. ...

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May 7, 2012 In Design Process

Chip Kidd on Designing Books

I was presently surprised to find out that Chip Kidd presented at TED. ...

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May 3, 2012 In Articles

When Designing Experiences for Humans, Consider Common Psychological Behaviors

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...

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April 17, 2012 In Industrial Design

Dumpling Steamer by Jia

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,...

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April 11, 2012 In Design Leadership

Design is a Connector in Business

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...

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April 10, 2012 In Design Leadership, Entrepreneurship

Businesses should Tell a Story and Plant Many Seeds

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...

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April 2, 2012 In Design Leadership

Go Ahead, Design the New Business

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. ...

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March 27, 2012 In Design Process

The Inverted Bike Shop

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...

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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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