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November 2, 2018 In Design Process

Design Thinking Experts Fill In Gaps Between Steps

How do you identify the best Design Thinkers? Separate the men from the mice? They can fill in the gaps between the steps. Design Thinking has been expressed as codifying how designers think. However, when a process gets codified, the tendency is to simplify it for the purpose of...

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May 16, 2014 In About Design Sojourn, Design Leadership, Design Process, Industrial Design

Next to the Skin Technology Showcase: The Process



As you may know from our last post, we worked with ETPL (the technology transfer arm of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research in Singapore) to develop 10 wearable prototypes for the Next to the Skin Technology Showcase. What was notable...

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January 24, 2014 In Design Process

Design Methods for Everyone

I have always enjoyed discussing Design Methods and frequently use Damien Newman's Squiggle as a means to visually describe the Design or Design Thinking process. But how do you describe the feeling when you are knee deep in the process? How do you sort yourself...

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August 28, 2013 In Articles

Get your Elevator Pitch right for your Design Strategy to Work

In a rare interview with Fastcompany, CEO Dietrich Mateschitz shares his thoughts about what Red Bull is all about.

What Red Bull stands for is that it “gives you wings…,” which means that it provides skills, abilities, power etc. to achieve whatever you want to. It...

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April 9, 2013 In Articles, Design Leadership, Design Process

Anthropology of Television

The following guest post is written by Maurice McGinley, a friend and former colleague at Philips Design. While some of the points might be a little outdated, this post showcases a methodology of Design Research and Design Led Innovation that is practiced in companies...

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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 3, 2011 In Industrial Design

The Time it Takes for Innovation at Heinz Worries Me

Image by Martin F. Ramin for The Wall Street Journal It was reported by the Wall Street Journal that the executives at Heinz spent 3 years developing a new larger ketchup...

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May 17, 2011 In Design Process

Let the Materials Design Itself

John Cho Moore grew tired of the limitations of the industrial design process and is now trying to capture the essence of design with his beautifully handmade bamboo and canvas bags. Follow John through his unique manufacturing process that challenges convention thinking...

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April 26, 2011 In About Design Sojourn, Entrepreneurship

CKIE.com: A Crowd Funding Platform that Empowers Designers to turn their Designs into Reality

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...

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March 1, 2011 In Designing Designers

Design Truisms to Ponder About

Image by Anthony Dickens on Twitpic. Click for a larger view. Anthony Dickens recently shared, on a Linkedin discussion, a list of Design Truisms written by Tim Parsons. ...

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December 27, 2010 In Design Process

Inception's Plot Visualized by Christopher Nolan

I have a small confession. I only managed to watch Inception on the plane 3 weeks ago. Despite my fears of an over-hyped movie, I thoroughly enjoyed it! There are very few movies these days that require an audience to think deeply,...

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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 9, 2010 In Design Process

The Difference between the Design of Digital and Analogue Products

Francisco Inchauste, a User Experience (UX) designer passionate about all things web, writes a very insightful analysis on the difference of approach between his design of intangible digital products, to that of Architect Frank Lloyd Wright's more analogue (or tangible) products. He writes:...

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November 1, 2010 In Designing Designers

Inspiration is for Amateurs

Chuck Close from Wisdom said:

The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of...

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October 29, 2010 In Design Process

When Designing: Focus on Methods, Not Process

Bryan over at the ZURBlog wrote that designers should focus on methods, not process.

At a glance, method and process may seem like the same thing, but a closer look reveals their distinct differences. A method is a how you do something, while process is putting...

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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 22, 2010 In Designing Designers

We Need to Constantly Challenge our Design Processes

As designers, we all have processes, systems and tools that we use day in and day out. Each one employed to solve a specific problem in a specific way. As we attempt to automate our design process and optimize our methods we invariably realize 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 12, 2010 In Design Leadership

Fast Company Incorrectly Condemns Google's Design Process

When I glanced over "Google Equates "Design" With Endless Testing. They're Wrong" by Co.Design editor Cliff Kuang, my immediate reaction was, does the editorial team at Fast Company's Co.Design know what they are talking about? I had to re-read it just to be...

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