So it seems that Frog's Chief Creative Officer, Mark Rolston, has left to start Argo a "new type" of design firm that is a hybrid mix of design agency, incubator and product development group. With argo, Rolston is looking to create a nimble design group that
Kontra over at counternotions writes:
There are many counterintuitive ‘rules’ in product design, these two are among the most intractable: • The more successful a product, the harder it’s to upgrade. • The more users say they want a product update, the more they complain when the change
The Vol portable speaker designed by Hironao Tsuboi is a work of beautiful precision crafted electronics that will appeal to any designer (or non-designer) music aficionado that grew up during the era
One of the most important and significant things that I have learnt in the last few years working with businesses is that people don’t buy your products just because they look good. People buy your products because it benefits them; or it has something
I'm a big fan of Dieter Rams, so much so that I have even dedicated an entire article here at Design Sojourn to his design philosophy. Therefore, I was quite excited to watch this
One of the problems of Design Thinking is that it has inherited some of the bad habits of the Business mindset. In particular the need for repeatability and for research data to help justify any design decision the organization makes. Frog Design's Ben McAllister
Michael Bierut, of Pentagram fame, has shared on his Design Observer blog 7 things designers can learn stand up comics. I've extracted and summarized it here for our discussion and reflection. I’ve added my summaries below, but the 7 points are by Michael.
I know I have been teasing all of you about a strategic design project that I have been and am still working on. It is now time for the big reveal with
The R2B2 is a wonderful green kitchen appliance concept designed by Christoph Thetard and showcased at the recent Milan Furniture Fair. It uses a sustainable human powered flywheel to drive the spinning
It is commonly known that Apple does not use user-centered research to help the Business determine what they should create or do next. They go one better. They build "playing fields" wide enough for people to do as they please.
Apple has recognized what
As promised in my previous blog post "Taking Engagement at Design Sojourn to the Next Level", I wanted to let you know that 3 lucky email subscribers of Design Sojourn's Newsletter have won a Finlandia iPhone 4 case! They have
Paula Antonelli indirectly answers the question "What makes good design?” by sharing some of MoMa's selection criteria.
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Anthony Dickens recently shared, on a Linkedin discussion, a list of Design Truisms written by Tim Parsons.
Good design and designers everywhere, just browse the Internet and you will see. From the comfort of your laptop you can consume the hottest cars, furniture, digital cameras, laptops or mobile phones etc. Sure there are some great designs, but the rest of the majority
As designer Matt Jones says, "don't keep calm and carry on", we should instead:
My decision to buy a new 13" MacBook Air (2010) was quite an arduous one. I went through rounds of intensive research before I decided to take the plunge.
A cool video compilation of design quotes from design luminaries as well as the clients of interaction design consultancy Vostok. If only we all had clients like Vostok's
I’m surprised to see two similar designs have won the 2010 iF Concept Award. The Easy Needle (left) and the Ppin Needle (right) were both created by students from Zhejiang University
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
Let's start with 3 truths. 1) The best place to be is to have a good presentation with good content. Works in any situation. 2) If you have good presentation and your content sucks, you might still get away with it. 3) If your content is great