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Design Inspiration Readings

Watch Dan Szuc’s “From Sleepwalking to Sparkle”

Dan Szuc talks to us about ‘sleepwalking’ in project work today. And how we can fix this by injecting ‘sparkle’ into everything we do […]

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Design Readings

Listen to Stuart Curran’ “Stories to Stories” talk

This talk is aimed at anyone who is looking for practical ways to bridge the gaps between traditional research and agile practices by focussing on activities that hold common value for both […]

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Design Software

Watch Greg Petroff’s “Superpowers for the Industrial Worker” talk at SAP Design Talks

Greg Petroff addressed an audience of some 700 SAP employees not only about designing for lots of dirt, grease, water, heat, and cold, but also how GE uses design methods and technology to gain empathy for industrial workers […]

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Inspiration

Watch D&AD’s “Designing Books” with David Pearson

D&AD talks to David Pearson about designing books, and picks out some of 2015’s best examples of book design […]

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Inspiration

Erik Spiekermann on the Beauty of Constraints

At his newly opened workshop P98A Gallery, this master tells us about the beauty of constraints, the heritage of letterpress printing, and his unusual entrepreneurship principles […]

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Design Innovation Software User Experience

IxDA’s 2016 Interaction Design Today: short documentary

This is the first of a series of videos I’ll be posting about my experience of sitting in the jury of the IxDA’s 2016 Interaction Awards, as well as to reflect on some of the categories winners. During the 2016 jury weekend gathering — which was hosted in November 2015 by SVA’s MFA in IxD program — myself and the other jurors sat down with the Interaction Awards co-chairs MJ Broadbent and Thomas Kueber and shared some insights and perspectives on the field of interaction design today […]

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Inspiration

For Inspiration: Barbatuques’ “Ayú!” featuring Naná Vasconcelos

The American jazz magazine DownBeat named Naná Vasconcelos percussionist of the year every year from 1983 to 1991 […]

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Design Innovation Readings

Roger Martin’s “The Importance of Design in Business”

Roger Martin discusses how design can help business. He speaks at the Milken Institute Global Conference 2015 on “Market Makers”

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Design Readings

Watch Indi Young’s “Make a Case for Empathy” talk at Interaction’15

Big data, data visualization, data-driven decisions … organizations hate risk. They love trying to predict your next choice based on what you chose the last time. If you listen to many people, you’ll start to see patterns in how they reason, react, and guide their decisions. These patterns are what you use to balance big data.

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Design Readings

Watch Dan Saffer’s “Practical Creativity” talk at Interaction’15

In this talk, Dan Saffer focuses on what you can do to increase your practical creativity through the deliberate practice of finding and gathering those pieces and the methods for fitting them together.