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
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
Scott Berkun, author of "The Myths of Innovation", shares on the Economist why we should all ban the word innovation. He writes:
Einstein, Ford, Picasso and Edison rarely said the word innovation and neither should you. Every Fortune 500 crowd I've said this to
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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I would like to take a moment from my daily grind to share something that I have been considering for a long time now. I seem to be doing a lot of that lately eh?
Fellow designers,
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
The world is all in a frenzy with the launch of the iPad. Even I could not help but get caught up in the madness. I have been reading a whole host of articles
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
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
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.
It is with a hard heart that I write this post today. The Pocket Light by Hyun Jin Yoon and Eun Hak Lee (Ryan Harc), was stolen, produced and sold, unlicensed, under another brand. I do not condone such activities and urge
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".
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
While all the fan boys were getting Macgasms over the new 27" iMac or the Macbook with the sausage shaped profile, I was interested in only one thing: Apple's financial results. I tweeted my response on my twitter stream. Here's a screen-shot. <img
Joe Duffy's "Demystifying Design: An Argument for Simplicity" is a great little piece that calls out Design like it should be. Here is my favorite bit:
What is design? It begins with ideas--ideas based in purpose. It requires a plan or a process. It
I usually write posts like this over at TDOET.com (The Design of Everyday Things), but this one I though to share
The last time we spoke about Design and the stock market in my post titled: Looks like Innovation moves Markets, not Design, I had a great response from Design Sojourn's awesome readers.
So I think this
A while ago I worked with a colleague that was a huge fan of Six Sigma. Six Sigma is a set of statistical and analytical tools use to measure and track the efficiency of a business or operations. My colleague was fanatical in
David Sherwin on his very cool ChangeOrder blog writes that:
Good design is the enemy of great design. This isn't to say that good design gets in the way of great design, since the latter is only possible when surrounded by the former. But our hardest
iPod Touch marketed and positioned as a Pocket Computer
I’m a firm believer that a good design strategy expresses the a product’s marketing concept, or great marketing should be a reflection of a design’s intent. They