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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 Amazon, 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
Listen to Ed Catmull’s “Pixar’s Collective Genius” talk, for Harvard Business Review
Pixar cofounder Ed Catmull exemplifies the greatest form of leadership: empowering others to achieve the extraordinary. People tend to think of creativity as a mysterious solo act, and they typically reduce products to a single idea: This is a movie about toys, or dinosaurs, or love, they’ll say. However, in filmmaking and many other kinds of complex product development, creativity involves a large number of people from different disciplines working effectively together to solve a great many problems. Ed Catmul is an unpretentious man. He doesn't like to talk about how he performs his job as president of Pixar and (since a 2006 merger) Disney Animation Studios. But the article and accompanying podcast shed light on his exceptional leadership qualities [...]
Posted in design, information technology, innovation Also tagged animation, artist, Computer, Creative Process, Creativity, design, Development, Disney, Editor, Edwin Catmull, entertainment, Film And TV, filmmaking technology, founder, Harvard, Harvard Business Review, leadership, media, Pixar, Podcast, President, project management, Scientist, work Leave a comment
Watch Pranav Mistry’s “The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology” demos at TED
We've already seen MIT researcher Pranav Mistry's SixthSense projector-based augmented-reality system in some cool demos, but he just gave a TED talk and his latest ideas are the wildest yet. At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data -- including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop." In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he'll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all.
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Autodesk Constructware 2010 Offers New Features to Improve Construction Project Management
Autodesk announced the release of Autodesk Constructware 2010 project management software. As a premier solution for the construction industry, Autodesk Constructware 2010, is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application, providing an on-demand environment for construction project management and collaboration [...]
Posted in design, innovation, software Also tagged 3D software, Autodesk, Autodesk Constructware, Autodesk Inventor, Collaborative Projects, Construction, project management, software 1 Comment
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 [...]
Posted in design, information technology, innovation Also tagged anthropologist, Anthropology, Apple, Collaborative Projects, design, Design Inspiration, design thinking, designer, Ideo, information technology, innovation, Innovation Strategies, inspiration, M.I.T, project management, psychologist, psychology, Technology Innovation, Tim Brown Leave a comment
Watch Itay Talgam’s “Lead like the great conductors” talk at TED
An orchestra conductor faces the ultimate leadership challenge: creating perfect harmony without saying a word. In this charming talk, Itay Talgam demonstrates the unique styles of six great 20th-century conductors, illustrating crucial lessons for all leaders [...]
Posted in economics Also tagged Collaborative Projects, conductor, Creative Process, Creativity, education, Itay Talgam, leadership, musician, orchestra, project management, TED conference Leave a comment
Watch Clay Shirky’s “How social media can make history” talk at TED
While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics [...]
Posted in economics, information technology, trends Also tagged adjunct professor, BBC, Clay Shirky, economics, Facebook, Interaction Design, internet, Internet culture, Internet Users, Iran, Library of Congress, New York University, Nokia, Open Source Software, Open Source Technology, Peer-to-peer, social networking, Social Networking Sites, Social Networks, social software, software, US State Department, wireless networks Leave a comment
Listen to Joe Sokohl’s “A Real Nowhere Man: Managing Remote Teams Remotely” talk at IA Summit 2009
Not only do we work with people across the hall, across town, and across the country, but we also work with people we never meet from countries we know about only through Wikipedia or the Travel Channel. UX Lead for PracticeWorks, Joe Sokohl discusses principles to live by when managing teams remotely including: communication, flexibility, sensitivity, courage, and the best tool of all, empathy [...]
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Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality maps at TED