One thing I have noticed about software companies, something that hardware companies figured out years ago, was they could not design or do everything. In April 1999 Flextronics announced that it would purchase a second manufacturing facility from Ericsson. Perhaps not the best example here,
I was amazed to find out how extensive the Cult of Mac's influences are over the many products they cover. Even though the Apple Newton PDA was killed by Steve Jobs shortly after he re-joined Apple in 1998, the Newton community continues to defy all
I have been asked by a few readers how I manage to do so much. Actually I do have a lot on my plate and actually don't get too much done! But seriously these days balancing between being a stay home Dad and running my
Designers always suffer with managing and showing their design "works in progress". The problem is usually designers don't get the feedback they want, or do too much and miss the dateline, or they do too little and the client feels they are not getting
Intrapreneurship or Internal Entrepreneurship is fast becoming a big buzz word as companies start to embrace design, innovation and creativity as a strategic competitive advantage. Using the viewpoint that "innovation begins with everybody" as a credo to beat the competition, companies like IBM, 3M and
Who would not want to belief in it? As far as anyone can tell it's the best way to sell to today's over-informed hyper-consumer. However even after extolling the virtues of it in my post "The Art of the Very Small Start",
Simple, by using design prototypes. Which was what this product is. Make it, test it, then sell the hell out of it! One of the reasons, in the past few months why occasionally my postings have been intermittent is that my design team and I were
Huge news! Creative has beaten Apple! Apple Computer and Creative Technology have agreed to settle their legal dispute over music player patents for $100 million, the companies announced Wednesday. I'm sure this is old news by now. I'm not really surprised if you ask me, a lot
Seeing double? Via Engadget Of all the intensely competitive consumer electronics markets, the one that rules them all is as the personal digital entertainment one. With all the ultra-informed, hyper-consumer in the market today, I am surprised to find companies that continue to take this path and
So from Part 1 we really get a gist of the direction of where digital businesses are moving. If we use Crowdsourcing, which is a way to generate ideas and source for labor, and The Long Tail Effect which tells us that people buy niche products
Updated: New links were added and my usual poor grammar was corrected. A Web 2.0 marketing plan focusing on real tangible products, was really only made possible for our discussion today because of the pipeline pathway opened by the Internet. The Internet is amazing in the
I recently have had a lot of meetings with vendors and engineers trying to get our designs realized. Each time after the different meetings, I noticed that there is still a great divide between the workings of engineers and designers. It's really not about the
For me another one of my yearly activities is hiring designer talents. This year is no exception. As always this also leads me to figure out how am I able to retain these talents that I hire. In the case of designers or even the
I wrote this in 06, December, 2005. And with such topics it rears its ugly head again. I've updated and reposted it with ping backs to relevant blogs. The term "Design" is truly the in-thing theses days everybody is talking about it and how they
I must say The Singapore Entrepreneurs Blog is fast becomming one of my favourite blogs to read. Their recent post on patents has encouraged me to post my alternative take on patents. This is something that is actually practiced at my company, a SME (Small
I'm sure most of you have already started noticing Google's little foray of multiple thing-a-ma-jigs with their free web based products like flickr, gmail, picasa, earth, etc. You can get the comprehensive and staggering list here. I did not even realise that they own Blogger! I