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Archive for October, 2006

Learning to Fall

Monday, October 30th, 2006

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 [...]

NibTV – Sexy Beijing

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

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:

Stylists != Designers

Friday, October 20th, 2006

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, [...]

Design Must Relinquish Control

Monday, October 16th, 2006

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 [...]

Theory of Product Innovation, Part II: iNPD Model

Friday, October 6th, 2006

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 [...]