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Big Companies, Small Companies, Innovation and Brickhouse
"Big companies are no longer competing only with big companies anymore. They're competing more and more often with two kids in a garage. Embracing risk, and the concomitant failure, is an essential part of this."
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"I collect a ton of information, then organize it, then I map it to the task I’m trying to do. Then I repeat."
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An in-depth look at the man behind Apple's design magic.
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"What would happen, I wonder, if I actually told the truth about what happens in a design process?"
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The Process of Defining the Problem
"Had we not gone through the process of better defining the problem, one of the two original options may have been utilized and probably failed to meet the company’s goals."
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The official SVA site for the pill bottle that target purchased.
Does process matter? Does outcome matter? Do neither matter at all?
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"If your framework doesn’t explicitly account for culture and context, then it is unlikely that you will be attuned to these things when you do your research and design."
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"My views on how planners can best involve themselves in the creative process."
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"To follow-up on one of the recurring discussions at this year’s Art of Yahoo! conference, I’ve compiled several of my thoughts on effective design reviews with product stakeholders (clients, business units, etc.)."
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"The greatest efficiencies come from identifying the areas that people, yes living breathing people, find extremely boring. Then seek ways to make those tasks as painless as possible."
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Five Most Important Considerations
An answer to the question, "what are the five most important considerations when planning a web site?"
Epicenter software design: Building features from the inside out
"So, if you’re wondering where to start on a new feature or a new product, discover the epicenter. What’s the one thing it needs first before it needs anything else?"
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"So in this article, I thought I'd rustle up a few paragraphs describing how I go about producing an A List Apart Illustration."
Design is like a Hand of Cards
"The difficulty with design is that each design project has different problems to solve. While we want to be able to generalize those problems, doing so actually hurts our chances at creating an appropriate solution to our specific problems."
Paul Rand's Final Logo Part 2: Doug Evans + Partners
"Paul Rand’s actual final logo was for Doug Evans + Partners. Below are the sketches and final designs. Enjoy."
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The Moment of Zen: The Daily Show and Product Development
"While there’s nothing particularly unique about the way The Daily Show involves the audience, it does remind us that good design practices that truly include audiences are ubiquitous; not just for narrowly defined brainstorming sessions and design revi
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2006: The Year of Total Design
Total Design is "what happens when you combine wickedly good design thinkers with a human-centered, business-sensitive design process."
The Website Development Process
The process of creating a website performed by Playmobile toys.
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Luke Wroblewski attempts to "outline how design processes differ from traditional business processes."
Trish Adams, MD of Wieden + Kennedy Tokyo on the basic tenets of WK's relationship with Nike.
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"Unnecessary details can put the brakes on innovative thinking. Better to focus on big picture up front. The details will follow naturally."
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"They may not tell you, but clients expectâ€â€even demand things from the creative firms they work with. Learn how to meet and exceed those expectations."
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"In an exclusive book excerpt from the general manager of Ideo, we meet the personality types it takes to keep creativity thriving--and the devil's advocate at bay."
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"Media allegiance spells limitation. Think first, then choose what tools to use."
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Structuralist Collective: The Stifling Effects of the Formulaic Approach
"Using the same approach over and over for projects, just because it's worked before or because it's comfortable, can be detrimental to your creative well being. In fact, it can be devastating."
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"At XPLANE we measure five dimensions of quality for any customer engagement. The dimensions include the quality of the output as well as the process"
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In order to do a better job of developing, communicating, and pursuing a strategy, the head of Ideo says, you need to learn to think like a designer. Here's his five-point plan for how to make the leap.
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Tom Peters interviews Jason Fried, president and founder of 37signals
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how i learned to stop worrying and relinquish control
adaptive path: "Relinquishing control is becoming a requirement in all aspects of Internet businesses."
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Writing Tool #50: The Writing Process
"Sniff. Explore. Collect. Focus. Select. Order. Draft. Revise."
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All the Backpacks that weren't
Signal vs. Noise: "Iterative design is a zeroing-in process, and you can start to see this as the changes in each iteration become increasingly subtle."