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One of my professors at the IIT Institute of Design who is a founder of Gravity Tank, and prodigy of product design has started a blog with his partner called “Foghorn:  Sounding off on Innovation“. Chris is insightful and an exceptional facilitator of innovation workshops. As he mentions in his blog, I am really looking [...]

CasePlace.org, which provides teaching modules and case studies for various relevant industry topics has just released a teaching module called “Bottom of the Pyramid”. It contains three case studies that might be relevant if you’re an educator or just someone who is particularly interested in this space: Expanding the Playing Field: Nike’s World Shoe Project [...]

Today after K and I left work, we had dinner with two ID friends (Ying and Jun Jie) at a place called Shun Feng (the one on Huangpi Bei Lu). I had the brilliant idea of trying to walk there, because Huangpi Rd is literally right next to our office in Xintiandi. I just didn’t [...]

Finally! Vegetarian food. Originally uploaded by quami77 Here is a hint for the ‘su cai’ people that decide to come to Shanghai. There’s a place called the Jade Buddha temple that has a nice restaurant attached to it. We went to it, and it had a plethora of interesting dishes, some of which were faux [...]

We’re leaving tonight via train to reach Beijing, as we are meeting with a Design professor and his students at Tsinghua University. Depending on my net availability, posts may be limited until Sunday, when we will return to Shanghai. Until then, enjoy the many pictures uploaded recently on Flickr.

Shanghai Starbucks Originally uploaded by quami77 I am sitting in a Starbucks in Shanghai right now, in an area known as Xintiandi (although I don’t have wireless access here, surprisingly this Starbucks does not have any access, so this will inevitably be posted later). If I close my eyes, there is absolutely no way to [...]

A beautiful day to paint the grass … because you can always paint your side…. I may be sheltered, I realize, but I have never seen fertilizer that is this vividly green. This, my friends, is nook-yuh-lar green, and it is a bit scary that the hotel worker here is using a power sprayer to [...]

MiniAjax.com / A showroom of nice looking simple downloadable DHTML and AJAX scripts (tags: ajax css design webdesign)

Hummer in Shanghai Originally uploaded by quami77 When you’re in a country of so many people, you have to learn to deal with lack of personal space. There isn’t always abundance, so you have to make do with what you have. I have seen remarkable reuse of containers, objects that one buys at the store. [...]

Flickr credit: Just Jefa “Unlocking value at Microsoft“???Specifically, read the extremely caustic comments. More people who blindly want to pursue an MBA and spend over a $100K (including opportunity cost) need to ask themselves exactly what they’re getting out of it. Don’t get me wrong, I have respect for both Microsoft and Kellogg, but why [...]

Eye tracking software for design research Shanghai Jiao Tong students The students here at Shanghai Jiao Tong university use some sophisticated hardware/software to track a user’s eyes. I’m not an HCI expert by any means, but I have seen/heard of quantitatively based user interaction studies (with large sample sizes) for enterprise level websites and eCommerce [...]