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August 12, 2011 In Design Leadership

Korean Supermarket Chain uses Design Thinking in Bid to be No 1

Check out this really cool video about Supermarket chain Tesco's Korean arm, Homeplus, and its bid to become the Number 1 supermarket chain in Korea. ...

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August 8, 2011 In About Design Sojourn

Design Sojourn Appointed as a Design Facilitator for the Design Engage Program!

July 2011 was just a crazy month for us here at Design Sojourn. We have been drowning in project work and did not have much of a chance to share...

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July 6, 2011 In Design Leadership

The Struggle Continues in Measuring the Value of Design

It's not easy describing the value of design. Even looking to describe the value of design being optimistic. I often get by by reducing the discussion to 2 scenarios; what happens when design is used and when design is not. So it did...

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May 20, 2011 In Design Leadership

Good Design is Not a Science

One of the problems of Design Thinking is that it has inherited some of the bad habits of the Business mindset. In particular the need for repeatability and for research data to help justify any design decision the organization makes. Frog Design's Ben McAllister...

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March 22, 2011 In Spaces for Ideas

Celebrate Spaces for Ideas 1st Birthday with Free Shipping! (Sorry it's Over)

Update: With just over a week to go before the end of our Birthday sale, I like to ramp up the celebrations with a new shop front and to announce that the free shipping offer...

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March 17, 2011 In Design Leadership

From Unthinking Design to Design Thinking

I recently spoke to a person who has successfully started to integrated design thinking into his organization. He re-emphasized the word “started” because he feels his organization is still making the journey. Even so, his organization is already starting to see the benefits...

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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 28, 2010 In Designing Designers

Don't Keep Calm and Carry On, Get Excited and Make Things!

As designer Matt Jones says, "don't keep calm and carry on", we should instead: ...

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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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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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October 7, 2010 In Design Leadership

The Relationship between Design and Marketing

I have always maintained that Design and Marketing go hand in hand. Any designer looking to become more business savvy can get quite far if he or she starts with some marketing knowledge. Mike Funk writes:

Marketing is a framework for the organized delivery...

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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 20, 2010 In Designing Designers, Industrial Design

Awesome Hand Rendered Atari Computer Concepts

Atari 900 Concept Atari 1200 Concept Atari 2600 Concept I really love these old school hand rendered Atari...

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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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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 22, 2010 In Design Leadership

Designing Experiences Require a 360 Degree Process

So here I am in Hong Kong, sitting in my bath robe, and stuck indoors because of Typhoon Chanthu. As a result, I got an opportunity to reflect on my stay here at the Hyatt at Sha Tin. It was quite comfortable and...

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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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April 28, 2010 In About Design Sojourn, Design Leadership

Time for Designers to get Back to Basics!

Tools for Sketching Image by Plindberg 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,...

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