Last week Daniel over at Innovation Zen posted about the differences between continental and anglo-saxon capitalism. This brought up an old issue for me about the tension between open and closed systems. The Financial Times has a great article on this question. If we hadn’t created the internet 15 years ago, would we do it [...]

There’s always something interesting in the frictions found where culture intersect. Check out Su Fie’s (Sophie’s) chronicle of a single jewish girl in Beijing trying to find just a little love and romance in such a completely foreign culture. See more videos on NibTV:

Designers and stylists are synonymous in popular conception–and in the minds of many stylists. The reality, however, is that they aren’t the same at all. In a previous post I took a stab at visualizing a certain perspective on the cognitive capabilities that distinguish designers from stylists. Then recently I read Developers are from Mars, [...]

This is a sort of follow up to something I posted last year how the future of design will be in designers giving up our fussy and precious obsession with control. It seems I’m no longer alone: Consumers are beginning in a very real sense to own our brands and participate in their creation… We [...]

I have for a long time believed in the integrated new product development (iNPD) model Jonathan Cagan and Craig Vogel present in “Creating Breakthrough Products.” This model shatters traditional functional silos in favour of a balanced integration between the design, engineering and marketing disciplines. This integration results in products of higher value, and therefore higher [...]