Design Battle Cry
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Tags | advertising | collaboration | experience design | Google | innovation | observatory |
People have been pretty excited about Google Wave since its unveiling. Most of this excitement though has been triggered by its new communication possibilities from the user point of view (synchronous multiparty collaboration, threaded messages, extended functionality through wavelets, etc.)
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Tags | design |
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Thursday, July 16, 2009
Tags | Apple | Corporate Design Strategy | innovation | Operatory |
A recent Wall Street Journal article has a very interesting data point on the impact Apple’s COO Tim Cook has had in the company’s turnaround:posted by Enric | 2 comments | Links to this post |
A recent visit to Paris's Dans le Noir restaurant got me thinking about visual, auditory, and kinesthetic (VAK) learning styles and what happens when one of the most heavily relied-upon modalities among seeing people is taken away from them.posted by Joyce | 2 comments | Links to this post |
This post is coming to you from above. WiFi's new dimension: get connected while flying high. And, no, this is not a medical marijuana joke. I am blogging from my flight back from Boston to San Francisco from seat 13C, Virgin America flight #...who cares, I'm online. So far, I've skyped with my work colleagues, caught up on some work emails, got on HuffPo, paypal'ed a friend. What better to do on a flight than pop open your laptop and take care of some errands?posted by maritoruiz | 0 comments | Links to this post |
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Tags | experience design | planning | user-centered design |
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Tags | Apple | music | observatory | quotes |


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Thursday, April 9, 2009
Tags | Corporate Design Strategy | Design Management | innovation | Operatory |
Within big companies everybody wants to be an innovator. Innovation projects are started by executives and managers across the board and all of them want their teams to come up with the next big thing. 
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Tags | design | facebook | interaction design | social networking | usability |

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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Tags | branding | Customization | design machine | Design Strategy | innovation | marketing | Operatory | quotes |
"The idea [behind the Design Machine] was how can we make it easy for nondesigners to leverage the power of good design"
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Monday, February 16, 2009
Tags | delight | Design Strategy | Design Thinking | innovation | observatory | quotes |


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Friday, February 13, 2009
Tags | delight | graphic design | information design | typography |

I always enjoy Nicholas Felton's Annual Report and this year is no exception, although I find the triangle pattern obtuse at times and I wonder if there is a way to use such meticulously collected and organized data to tell a more rich and human story?
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Thursday, February 5, 2009
Tags | d.school | Design Thinking | Doblin | IDEO | IIT ID | Models | observatory | SSS |


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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Tags | Google | mass-participation | observatory | Primitive |
O3b Networks, O3b stands for Other 3 billion, aims to provide cheap internet access to the remote areas of the globe by 2010. Backed by Google, Liberty and HSBC, O3b is setting up a satellite network to connect the three billion people who currently don't have internet access. In most of the Western world, internet access came as the natural next step in communication technology, we already were enjoying the benefits of TV, telephone, newspapers and what not. These countries, however, will be catapulted into a global information society most of its inhabitants never knew existed.posted by Jan | 1 comments | Links to this post |


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Monday, November 24, 2008
Tags | Design Thinking | observatory | politics |
One of the most useful things Roger Martin has done for the innovation community is to saliently describe what are the characteristics that define integrative/design/systems thinking:Integrative thinkers reject the suggestion that, just because they're the only two models that exist now, those are the only two models possible. There is a sense that there is an opportunity to create something different."
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Tags | environmental design | food |
It turns out it can actually be a challenge to be truly thankful. We Westerners are brought up to take pride in being self-reliant and independent--so much so that it sometimes becomes difficult to say "thank you" when someone else performs an unsolicited, unexpected, authentic and selfless act of kindness. Rather than be truly appreciative of and celebrate that person's generosity, we find ourselves guilt-tripped into doing something equally generous out of a sense of obligation, Hammurabi's "eye for an eye" principle applied to philanthropy. The irony is that giving out of guilt does not feel satisfying at all.posted by Joyce | 1 comments | Links to this post |

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(the following is a summary of the HBR article "How to Protect Your Job in a Recession" by Janet Banks and Diane Coutu)posted by Erik | 0 comments | Links to this post |
Monday, October 27, 2008
Tags | innovation | inventing | recession |

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