January 2012
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“Studies show that open-plan offices make workers hostile, insecure and...”
– The Rise of the New Groupthink - NYTimes.com (via robot-heart)
December 2011
3 posts
March 2011
7 posts
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The Adaptive Organisation
What the great organisations are able to achieve is the continuous ability to regenerate their own core strategies, based on what they don’t yet know, re-inventing entire industries along the way. They are able to train their cultures to challenge internal and external assumptions all of the time – a circular projection and review of core competencies — to develop a sustainable future. - Anthill
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“The fact that I knew nothing about it was my advantage”
– Gaston Glock, Temporary Expert
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Teach Kids Design Thinking
Our children must master systems-thinking to envision multiple methods for addressing complex challenges like renewable energy, world hunger, climate change, and ultimately, the design of a better world. - fastcodesign
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swissmiss | 29 Things that All Young Designers... →
bmdesign:
My favs for most questionable: Join AIGA and Your Mac is tool.
My favs for most reasonable: Define your Audience and Become Indispensable
February 2011
11 posts
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Users don't know - you have to lead them.
The user is king. It’s a phrase that’s repeated over and over again as a mantra: Companies must become user-centric. But there’s a problem: It doesn’t work. Here’s the truth: Great brands lead users, not the other way around.
The Apple and IKEA way
Take Apple. One evening, well into the night, we asked some of our friends on the Apple design team about their view of user-centric design. Their...
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The Seven Deadly Sins That Choke Out Innovation →
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Surprise and Delight & Deadlines and Margins
bmdesign:
Design thinkers, Chuck Jones (VP of Design at Whirlpool) says, are like quantum physicists, able to consider a world in which anything — like traveling at the speed of light — is theoretically possible. But a majority of people, including the Six Sigma advocates in most corporations, think more like Newtonian physicists — focused on measurement along three well-defined dimensions…Both...
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Urban Design →
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“Correlation doesn’t mean causation.”
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User Interface
AUI = Application User Interface BUI = Browser User Interface CUI = Console User Interface DUI = Dynamic User Interface EUI = Enhanced User Interface FUI = Fake User Interface GUI = Graphical User Interface HUI = Human User Interface IUI = Intelligent User Interface JUI = None :( KUI = None :( LUI = Local User Interface MUI = Multilingual User Interface NUI = Network User Interface OUI = Operator...
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“Capabilities must be aligned with conditions, which means we should be...”
– Resilient Futures
Designers & Books | Book lists and commentary from... →
bmdesign:
So much to read. But from whom?
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“Gervais has absorbed the true philosophy of design: It’s more important to stay...”
– Paddy Harrington
January 2011
12 posts
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“I often have long conversations all by myself and I am so clever that sometimes...”
– Oscar Wilde
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“What if America approached innovation with more than just technology? What if,...”
– John Maeda - On Meaningful Observation / SEEDMAGAZINE.COM (via bmdesign)
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“A knowmad is what I term a nomadic knowledge worker –that is, a creative,...”
– John Moravec - Knowmads in Society 3.0
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Fast Company - Best Design Books of 2010
bmdesign:
Fast Company names The Third Teacher: 79 Ways You Can Use Design To Transform Teaching and Learning as one of the best design books of 2010.
BMD co-authored The Third Teacher with OWP/P Cannon Architects and VS Furniture.
More on the article here:
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662949/13-of-the-best-design-books-of-2010#12
Learn more about The Third Teacher:
...
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Gangsta Lorum Ipsum →
December 2010
5 posts
“prosthetic knowledge
n. Information that a person does not know, but can access...”
October 2010
2 posts
September 2010
3 posts
August 2010
19 posts
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The Four Phases of Design Thinking
bmdesign:
1. Question
2. Care
3. Connect
4. Commit
(Warren Berger via Harvard Business Review)
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“Put agility in a space and suddenly you have longterm engagement”
– Stephen Heppell