February 2011
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We Are The Market: Win An Entire (capsule) Outfit →
wearethemarket:
Working with some of the best brands in the world affords us a lot of great opportunities, one of which is the ability to give away some free swag. So, what are we going to give away you ask? Well, how about an entire (capsule) outfit? Here’s what’s on the line:
Gitman Vintage oxford cloth…
October 2009
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Why celebrate design during a recession? →
let us not confuse need with want. we are mostly about the business of desire fulfillment and creating the illusion that want equals need. The ipod, while changing the landscape of technology, can hardly be said to have made the world a better place. US Steel can be attributed to lending a hand to transforming the city into a mass of cheap, grey real estate to be exploited by the...
Better (a corollary)
mrdarcymurphy:
langer:
And we all need to do better. We need to be more discriminating with regard to what we post to our Facebook feeds or share on Twitter or link to on our blogs. We need to ask ourselves: why am I sharing this? Who wrote this? Why is his or her voice authoritative? What is the value of this piece? Is this really thought provoking or is it just another distraction?
We’re...
The World's Best Design Thinking Programs →
There is huge demand for graduates who know Design Thinking and how to work collaboratively. Increasing that is how all knowledge work is being done. The Design part gives students the methodologies and tool kits to go into new cultures and situations, quickly understand the human needs there, create new options that could satisfy those needs and then iterate quickly to make the right choices...
September 2009
23 posts
IDEO battles global warming →
on the difference between left-brain and...
The two hemispheres are completely separate. Because they process information differently, each of our hemispheres think about different things, they care about different things, and, dare I say, they have very different personalities. … Our right hemisphere is all about this present moment. It’s all about “right here, right now.” Our right hemisphere, it thinks in...
“Right now, our nation sees left-brain thinking, focused on logic and reasoning,...”
– John Maeda on right-brained thinking and Apple. via HuffingtonPost
“Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate...”
– Paulo Freire (via loveyourchaos, historicupstart) (via azspot) (via notational) (via infoneernet)
via NYTimes and Deric Bownds’ Mindblog:
President Obama declared during the campaign that “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” That messianic phrase held the promise of a new style of politics in this time of tweets and pokes. But it was vague, a paradigm slipped casually into our drinks. To date, the taste has proven bittersweet.
Federal agencies have been directed to release online...
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What horrible luck. I get drawn to David Foster Wallace just as #infsum draws to an end.
I should never have re-opened my copy of Oblivion. Through a chance reading of Good Old Neon, I discover his genius and am hungry for more.
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idsgn wants you to "Know Your Type" →
Scott Berkun on design failure. After my own...
About tumblarity
From UI-patterns.com:
A common feature on many websites letting users contribute content is a list of the most interesting content on the website right now. It is often presented as highest rated content, most read content, or just most popular content (whatever that is…).
Is the rating or the view count really the best way of finding out what is more popular – or even more important: what is...
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August 2009
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