Something that has always been a career hazard for a designer is being out in front, absorbing information, and then synthesizing to predict what the next big consumer trends are. Trendwatching.com is a great site that does a lot of this data gathering work for you...
It always nice as a designer working in industry to catch up with designers in academia. I always come away with an "academic shower" feeling refresh and inspired. Especially when it comes to innovations like dirt repelling paint and ergonomic chairs and my...
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,...
Ever wondered what are the best techniques or visualization tools you can use to help solve your design and business problems? My fellow design blogger Ralf from Design-Management.de has listed a collection of visualization tools organized in a way that is similar to a chemistry periodic...
I was amazed to find out, how extensive the Cult of Mac's influences 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...
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...
Udanium235 has posted a whole range of his Design Concept Maps on Flickr. Meaningful and a piece of art in its own right, here are my favorites: Resonance at the Heart of Design Alchemy and Design Inspiration ...
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",...
I will be giving a presentation on Branding and Design on Tuesday 31 October 2006 at ITE Bishan Product Design Course at 10am. The contents of my presentation will on: * What is Branding? * Why is it important in product design? * Example of product branding * The current...
I will be giving a presentation on Branding and Design on Tuesday 31 October 2006 at ITE Bishan Product Design Course at 10am. The contents of my presentation will on: * What is Branding? * Why is it important in product design? * Example of product branding * The current...
Some of what I do is to initiate or be involved in design and product production programs. This requires me to be involved in, design and program management, negotiations with vendors, and getting management to buy into a concept. Here are a few tips...
Some of what I do is to initiate or be involved in design and product production programs. This requires me to be involved in, design and program management, negotiations with vendors, and getting management to buy into a concept. Here are a few tips...
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...
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...
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 added and my usual poor grammar corrected. A Web 2.0 marketing plan focusing on real tangible products, really only made possible for our discussion today because of the pipeline pathway open by the Internet. The Internet is amazing in a sense that...