YakShaving

Yak•Shaving (noun) Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem

Month: March, 2007

ChangeThis manifestos

Here I am sitting here reading this boring accounting book over spring break wishing I could be in sunny Austin for SXSW… bleghhhh. I should have used my rapid rewards credits to get out of Chicago for a while. Owell, too late now. Anyway, to procrastinate, I might as well post this draft that I [...]

links for 2007-03-10

IIT Institute of Design | Strategy Conference | 2007 (tags: Design conference corporate strategy innovation InstituteOfDesign)

links for 2007-03-08

Digging Beyond the Typical Search Engine to Find Better Research Online – DegreeTutor.com… (tags: research reference resources howto search)

links for 2007-03-06

Bokardo – Social Web Design ยป Five Principles to Design By (tags: design usability inspiration) Want to Make Money off Your Innovation? Watch the Cash Curve – Knowledge@Wharton (tags: innovation ROI) The Greatest Innovations of All Time (tags: innovation business Keeley)

Charette: Design a media cart in less than 5 hours. Go!

Our final media cart prototypes In talking to a friend lately, I realized that not many people really know what design school is like. Well, I’ll try to help with that. I keep having to explain that I’m in Foundation, which is a graduate introduction to Design. We take introductory classes in Product Design, Communication [...]

links for 2007-03-04

Helvetica (tags: typography design film)