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Watch Tim Brown urge designers to think big at TED
Tim Brown says the design profession is preoccupied with creating nifty, fashionable objects -- even as pressing questions like clean water access show it has a bigger role to play. He calls for a shift to local, collaborative, participatory "design thinking." [...]
Posted in design, innovation Also tagged collaboration, Collaborative Projects, David Kelley, design, design thinking, designer, food, food conglomerates, high tech, high tech startups, hospitals, Ideo, innovation, Labor, media, player, poster, Prada, Prototype, tech startups, technology, TED conference, Tim Brown Leave a comment
Watch Ray Anderson’s “the business logic of sustainability” talk at TED
At his carpet company, Ray Anderson has increased sales and doubled profits while turning the traditional "take / make / waste" industrial system on its head. In a gentle, understated way, he shares a powerful vision for sustainable commerce [...]
Posted in design, innovation Also tagged design, environment, founder, GE, head, Industrial, interface, Manufacturing Industry, media, model, Paul Hawken, poster, processes and infrastructure, product developer, Ray Anderson, sustainability, sustainable, TED conference Leave a comment
Watch Seth Godin’s “Why Tribes, not money or factories, will Change the World” talk at TED
Seth Godin argues the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived a human social unit from the distant past: tribes. Founded on shared ideas and values, tribes give ordinary people the power to lead and make big change. He urges us to do so [...]
Posted in consumer behavior, software, trends Also tagged consumer behavior, founder, internet, internet market, Internet Users, online behaviors, online shopping market, Seth Godin, Social Networks, software, TED conference, Yahoo 1 Comment
Steven Pinker’s “A brief history of violence” talk at TED
Steven Pinker charts the decline of violence from Biblical times to the present, and argues that, though it may seem illogical and even obscene, given Iraq and Darfur, we are living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence [...]
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AIGA’s Artist Video Series: David Carson
Reading about designers can be moving. Seeing their work can be inspiring and, at times, provoke us to action. Hillman Curtis, in his video series, allows us to experience leading designers through sound and motion, uncovering what it is about them that inspires him. Watch David Carson's video [...]
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John Thackara’s “Designing for Business as Unusual” keynote at IxDA | Interaction ‘09 conference
John Thackara shows the ways in which business as we know it are about to change for good, and then identifies how interaction designers can take these challenges on as design problems [...]
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Dan Saffer’s “Attention Awareness” Keynote at IxDA | Interaction ‘09 Conference
Dan Saffer calls out the Interaction Design community for allowing distracting topics to consume our attention, and for paying too little attention to "moonwalking bears," the opportunities interaction designers can take advantage of in the near future [...]
Clay Shirky’s “Institutions versus collaboration” talk at TED
In this prescient 2005 talk, Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning [...]
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Watch Bruce McCall’s “faux nostalgia” talk at TED