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March 12, 2011 In Entrepreneurship

Top 10 Mistakes Design Businesses Make

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David Sherwin, a Senior Interaction Designer...

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March 1, 2011 In Articles

Good Books on Design Sketching (Updated October 2011)

Good sketching skills are important in any design process, and something truly needed in the design industry today. While working in the design industry, I have seen many young designers give...

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April 12, 2010 In Articles

What are your Principles of Good Design?

Edit: As this is meant to be a living document, I have updated it to reflect my most recent thinking. The original was published on 26th March 2008, just over 2 years ago. principles of good design I used to see myself...

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July 9, 2009 In Designing Designers

How to be the Best Designer in the World?

Yo Yo Ma - Cello Image: Yo Yo Ma at the World Economic Forum 2008 by Any Mettler Have you ever wondered how you could be the best designer in the world? How to be that money making Design Virtuoso? I...

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May 14, 2009 In Designing Designers

Who Wants to be Part of a Designer Mentoring Program?

Star Wars: The Clone Wars Image from AllMoviePhoto That is right friends, I like to introduce to you a new activity on Design Sojourn and that is our very own Designer Mentoring Program. But...

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April 15, 2009 In Articles

The Dark Side of Design

Lego Darth Vader Image by Balakov This is my second article, that I wrote for Yanko Design (YD). As I know some Design Sojourn readers don't really frequent YD, I have decided to republish and keep a record of the article...

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March 27, 2009 In Articles

20 Tips for Designers to Beat the Recession

This article was originally published on Yanko Design. As I know some Design Sojourn readers don't really frequent YD, I thought it might be a good idea to republish it here as well. I have also re-edited some of the text to...

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February 5, 2009 In Designing Designers

Quantity Equals Quality if you Fail a lot!

The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on...

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January 13, 2009 In Designing Designers

Question of the Week: My non-designer boss thinks I suck!

This question of the week by reader Jane is delayed, in fact much delayed. Apologies as I have been caught up with work! She writes: I've been working at a product design company for almost a year and a half. Meeting new friends,...

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December 9, 2008 In Designing Designers

Are you Reading, Thinking or Doing?

We can’t get good at something solely by reading about it. And we’ll never make giant leaps in any endeavor by treating it like a snack food that we munch on whenever we’re getting bored. You get good at something by doing it repeatedly. And...

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November 17, 2008 In Articles

10 Tips on landing you an Industrial Design Job

Originally published on 20 April, 2006. Edit 1: Updated 25 Aug 2007 Edit 2: Updated 16 Nov 2008. This has to be one of the "classics" here at Design Sojourn, and a post that got me noticed in the blogosphere! Here it is updated again for 2008!...

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November 12, 2008 In Designing Designers

A Good Design Makes your Mind BLINK!

(This post was updated and edited. The original was published on the 19 Dec, 2005!) John Maeda, formerly from MIT Media Labs, and now RISD President, spoke about how "good art makes our mind blink". John was referencing Malcolm Gladwell's Blink with his art...

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October 23, 2008 In Articles

A Designer's Secret Weapon: Active Listening

Image Source: Listen to ME! One of the key skills I noticed great designers have is the ability to engage in Active Listening. I was lucky. I managed to pick up this skill 6-7 years ago in a training seminar and it has been vital in...

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October 7, 2008 In Designing Designers

More Stefan on TED

Last time I wrote about Stefan's book and how I bought one. Here he is again, in a short blurb on TED, where he runs through some of the things he has learn in his life so far. Oh, a kind person has compiled what Stefan has...

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September 18, 2008 In Designing Designers

Sketching is Offically Back, Finally

I have always been saying here on Design Sojourn that sketching is an important design and communication skill to have, I would say even more than any CAD skill of sorts. Importantly, in the last few years, I've seen more and more design companies...

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May 6, 2008 In Designing Designers

Life's Like That: Part 2

Image: Poop Hat from Jbox So where was I? Ah yes. On two separate occasions, I had a similar discussion with two designer friends. One of...

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March 18, 2008 In Designing Designers

Overcoming Barriers to Creativity in a Corporate Environment

Personally as Head of Industrial Design for an in-house design department I find this quote particularly interesting and quite an accurate reflection of creativity in most corporate environments.

In a recent survey by our company, eight out of 10 in-house designers said it's difficult to convince...

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Design Process

The Design Thinking Process Paradox

Designers or Design Thinkers often like to think that they require a certain level of “freedom” to allow their creativity…

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