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October 25, 2010 In Articles

20 Awesome Educational Videos on Design

I’ve always believed that videos were one of the best things to happen to learning on the Internet. Now people from all around the world can see beyond just the word and fully appreciate a...

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October 19, 2010 In Articles

Design Thinking is Killing Creativity, A Presentation Redux

I'm always open to new experiences! Last Saturday was the first time I presented a blog article to an actual physical audience! I was invited by the Design and Technology Educators Society (DTES) to present my controversial post: "Design Thinking is Killing Creativity".

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September 27, 2010 In About Design Sojourn, Entrepreneurship

Design Sojourn Consulting is Open for Business!

Image by David Lofink Design Sojourn Consulting officially opened for business today, and what a day it was! This first momentous day started slowly but ended with a heart pounding and diaphragm aching bang. I’ll tell you more about that...

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September 15, 2010 In Articles

How to Further Design in an Organization without Design Management?

Org Chart Image: An Event Apart Chicago Sketchnotes: Org Charts
This week’s "question of the week" is actually quite important. With the growing momentum of design thinking and organizations wanting to have a competence in design, more and more designers will find themselves...

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September 2, 2010 In About Design Sojourn, Articles, Entrepreneurship, Spaces for Ideas

Design Sojourn's Brand New Beginning

Kohi Sunrise Sorry for that cliffhanger of an ending in that last post where I announced that I would be leaving Philips Design at the end of September. I like to...

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July 26, 2010 In About Design Sojourn, Industrial Design

Have You Ever Wondered What I Did During the Day?

It might not come as a surprise to most of you, but this design blogger has an alter ego as a design professional during the day! While it...

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July 9, 2010 In Articles, Design Leadership

How Can We Fix the Problems of Design Thinking?

This article has actually been sitting as a draft for a few months now. I knew I wanted to write a follow up to the popular (49 comments at the time of writing!) Design Thinking is Killing Creativity, however I held off, as...

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July 7, 2010 In Design Leadership

How Steve Jobs turned Apple around in 1997

This speech probably took a lot of guts to deliver to the Apple faithful, and not surprisingly much of it was followed with of boos and jeers. However the thing to note...

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June 28, 2010 In Design Leadership

Strategy's Golden Rule

Umair Haque, Director of the Havas Media Lab, writes:

What your fiercest rival does badly, do incredibly well.
It makes so perfect sense, that it is painful when people don't seem to follow it. Anyone who is serious about winning starts of by looking at how...

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April 17, 2010 In Articles

Brands, like Apple, are The Masters of the Universe!

Recently, there has been a lot of buzz on the Internet about two similar events. What happened was basically this; The Masters of the Universe had proclaimed their decrees like dictators and the only thing...

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March 4, 2010 In Articles

Why are there so few truly remarkable products?

It's quite simple really. Our industrialized economy, founded on mass manufacturing and economies of scale spurred by consumerism, is the greatest enemy of remarkable products. Of course many products will come close, in fact many will be hailed as fantastic or even great, but the truly remarkable...

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February 22, 2010 In Industrial Design

Frustrated Consumer Designs a Dead Simple Headphone Wire Management Solution

A Lifehacker reader, frustrated with every headphone wire management solution in the market, decided to design his own dead simple solution that I dare say rivals any professionally designed consumer solution! I do wonder why...

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February 13, 2010 In Design Leadership

iPad a Stroke of Genius or Just a Stroke?

Unless you have been living under a rock recently, I’m sure you would have heard of the Apple iPad. Pretty much everyone has. So much so that there has been a lot said about...

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February 12, 2010 In Design Leadership, Designing Designers

Only God is T-Shaped

I have been thinking about T-Shaped Designers for a long time now. How to be one, what does being one really mean and how effective can one be. Made popular sometime in 2005 by IDEO's Tim Brown, T-Shape Designers are defined as:

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February 5, 2010 In Design Leadership

User Centered Innovation is Dead

With a cheeky little link to Tom Kelly's The Art of Innovation, Roberto Verganti (author of Design Driven Innovation) suggests in not so many words that User Centered Innovation, IDEO's claim to fame, is dead. ...

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January 23, 2010 In Design Leadership

Design Thinking 101 at the Stanford d.school

Ever wondered what design thinking is all about? The Stanford d.school has shared, with the world, the basics of design thinking as taught in their introductory class called the "design thinking bootcamp".

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January 11, 2010 In Articles

11 Design Strategies of the Next Decade

At the end of last year I was planning to write a post that was something like "The Best Products of 2009" or "The 2009 Product of the Year" or even "The Best Products of the Decade". After asking my twitter friends and designers...

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December 22, 2009 In Articles

5 Things I Wish for in 2010?

Dawn is too early Image by Rob Warde Wow what a year 2009 was? We got hit right in the face by the economic down turn and designers all over the world were falling like flies as companies cut R&D or design...

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November 5, 2009 In Design Process

The Design Process made Sexy at The Stanford D-School

design process at d school Click on the image to zoom in. Check out this visualization of the Design Process taught at the Stanford D-School . The photo was taken by...

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October 27, 2009 In Design Leadership

Design Leadership is about Asking the Right Questions

This morning, my colleague pointed me in the direction of this great little New York Times interview with Tim Brown, the chief executive and president of IDEO. (Wow, he even gets on the NY Times!) In the interview, Tim shares that (design) leadership is not...

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