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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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September 7, 2012 In Design Leadership, Design Process, Designing Designers

What is the Problem with Digital Design?

Tucker Marion, Sebastian Fixson and Marc H. Meyer, writes a wonderful piece for the MIT Sloan Management Review on the challenges of Digital Design without good Design Management. Here is an excerpt:

So, what’s the problem? There are potentially two. First, because the technology makes...

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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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March 14, 2012 In Articles

12 Reasons Why The Apple Design Process is Nothing Special

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...

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November 9, 2011 In Design Leadership

20 Ways to Protect and Nurture Design

Lorna Ross, a design manager at Mayo Clinic’s Center for Innovation (That's a place I would love to visit!), shares with Helen Walters insights on running a small design team within a very large organization. Lots of great tips and insights filled with wisdom...

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September 23, 2011 In Design Leadership

Apple's True Legacy

Harry Marks writes a very insightful piece on what Apple has done or will do for the computing industry in a Lion, iOS 5 and iCloud environment.

To some, it means Apple has locking you in to its “walled garden”. To others, the company is giving...

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September 23, 2011 In Design Leadership

Design Management vs. Design Thinking

While preparing for our Introduction to Design Thinking Workshop next week, I stumbled over a nice little infographic by Prof. Ralf Beuker, that clearly spells out the relationship between Design, Design...

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August 15, 2011 In About Design Sojourn

Sign up for our: "An Introduction to Design Thinking Workshop" NOW!

Registration Closes on the 23rd September 2011. Do hurry as spaces are filling up! It's official. With the backing of the Employment and Employability Institute (e2i), which focuses on improving skills, productivity and the...

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July 7, 2011 In Design Leadership

Designing with your Clients

I love it when someone writes a blog post for me. Well not officially anyway. You see I was going to write a blog post about Designing with your Clients. I was going to tell you, for example, how it is not that bad,...

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June 24, 2011 In Design Leadership

Design is Really Business Risk Management

When I talk to clients about budgets required to bring good design to the table, I get a lot of interesting looks and comments from them that imply one thing: they feel that design is a risky part of their business. You see, what business people...

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May 24, 2011 In Designing Designers

Move to a Maker's Schedule and Get More Done!

I'm pretty conscious about my work rhythm these days. There is a lot to do in running a business and I welcome any way to do it more efficiently. Therefore, I found Y-Combinator advisor Paul Graham's blog post about a Manager's schedule vs....

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May 11, 2011 In Entrepreneurship

F*ck You. Pay Me. (nsfw)

The ever-witty Mike Monteiro, famous for his potty mouth, shared at a recent San Francisco Creative Mornings talk, the ups and downs of running a design business. For example, dealing with problems such as getting clients to pay up, getting comfortable with...

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March 12, 2011 In Entrepreneurship

Top 10 Mistakes Design Businesses Make

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David Sherwin, a Senior Interaction Designer...

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January 26, 2011 In Articles

The Consumer Electronics Industry is Ugly


I'm sure all of you have noticed the huge flood of tablet computers in this year’s 2011 CES event in Las Vegas. Not only was it part of my dinner conversation some nights...

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January 3, 2011 In Articles

4 Vital Tips for Surviving an Industry where Good Design is Abundant

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...

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December 30, 2010 In Design Leadership

Design Fewer Products for Better Profitability

At the end of October 2008, I briefly suggested for designers to work with the business to make fewer products and focus their strategies during the recession. Here is a quote from HBR that sums-up this strategy:

Recent evidence suggests that the paradigm of...

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December 28, 2010 In Design Leadership

Minding our Own Business

Let the design team be the design experts. Your job is to be the business expert. Ask them how their design solutions meet your business goals. If you trust your design team, and they can explain how their recommendations map to those goals, you’re fine....

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November 16, 2010 In Design Process

The Undesigned Web is Design

Dylan Tweney, a senior editor at Wired.com, wrote on The Atlantic:

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November 16, 2010 In Design Leadership

The Future of Computing is Tablets and More!

This awesome infographic (after the jump below), created by the team at Focus, predicts that Tablets (iPad et al.) will be the future of computing. According to the data, 14% of online shoppers intent to purchase an iPad in the next five months. ...

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November 10, 2010 In Articles

Traits of Successful Design Managers

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I realized that a Design Manager is not an easy role to play in today's design industry. How a design team gels together is very much affected by how the "boss" manages them. More often than not, I see...

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