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Watch Tim Brown’s “Innovation Through Design Thinking” talk at MIT Sloan School of Management

Not so long ago, Tim Brown recounts, designers belonged to a “priesthood.” Given an assignment, a designer would disappear into a back room, “bring the result out under a black sheet and present it to the client.” Brown and his colleagues at IDEO, the company that brought us the first Apple Macintosh mouse, couldn’t have traveled farther from this notion [...]
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China’s Design Crisis

BusinessWeek's Bruce Nussbaum has an interesting article on the Chinese Design Industry [...]
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Watch Marc Rettig’s “How to Change Complicated Stuff” talk at IxDA | Interaction ‘09 Conference

In this talk Marc Rettig offers insights into the question "what is it like to actually achieve a meaningful, sustainable, positive difference in life?", drawing lessons from a number of serious, heartfelt attempts to affect change. The work we have all done in recent decades has prepared us to take on much bigger challenges. The foundations of design remain powerfully effective. That said, there are ways in which “designing for change” requires additions to our inventory of methods, and transformations in the way we plan and conduct our work [...]
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