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Architecture & Urban Planning in China: the top 10 fast-developing cities in 2009
The annual selection of China's top 10 fast-developing cities was held by the China International Urbanization Development Strategy Research Committee to illustrate the rate of China's urbanization [...]
Posted in China, trends Also tagged architect, architecture, Beijing, China, Development, Economy, environment, income, Infrastructure, Insurance, location, Marketing, mayor, population, Report, Shanghai, Statistics, Tianjin, Urban area, Urban Planning, Urbanization Leave a comment
Design in China: A “Chinese iPad” arrived before Apple’s iPad?
While Apple iPad tablet has just been unveiled in the U.S., a product of similar appearance strangely there for six months now on the Chinese market.The resemblance has prompted local websites, including Shanzhai.com, technology blog dedicated to Chinese copies, with irony on the turn made by domestic manufacturers now able to clone a product before it has been revealed.Its manufacturer is surprised: "Why Apple did the same thing as us?" [...]
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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: Consumer spending helps boost Shanghai’s growth
Shanghai's economy made further progress last month as a result of continued strong growth in local consumer spending and investment, while exports also improved to help strengthen a growing recovery [...]
Posted in China, consumer behavior, economics, trends Also tagged analyst, behavior, car sales, Chinese Government, CNY, consumer behavior, consumer price index, Development, Disney, Economy, energy, energy efficiency, Gross Domestic Product, inflation, Li Maoyu, Policy, Pudong, Report, retail, retail sales, Shanghai, Shanghai Daily, Shanghai Statistics Bureau, Shanghai World Expo, Statistics, USD, Vehicles, Xue Jun, Yuan 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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“Tap is the New Click”: Dan Saffer´s talk at NYC IxDA Face-to-Face meeting
How do you create products for this new paradigm? While most of us know how to design desktop and web applications, what do you need to know to design for interactive gestures? This introduction to designing gestural interfaces will cover the basics: usability and ergonomics; a brief history of the technology; some elemental patterns of use; prototyping and documenting; and how to communicate that a gestural interface is present to users [...]
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China, Technology, Innovation and the Environment: Part II
An energy structure with a low utilization rate, and an economic growth mode with serious, hazardous emissions have posed stark challenges for the sustained growth of Chinese economic society. Faced with such a grave situation in energy saving and emission reduction, more than 6,000 science, technology workers, as well as scientist-turned-entrepreneurs on met recently to discuss issues such as energy saving and environmental protection. Among them were more than 100 members from Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), the highest palaces for scientific research achievements and engineering progress [...]
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