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Monthly Archives: September 2007

Design Research Conference– The rest of ‘em

I was going to continue on with my digest series about the design research conference from this year, but instead, I think I’m just going to point you to the New Idiom, the newsletter from the Institute of Design, now running on TypePad.  On this week’s issue, there is a description of most of the [...]

Set up projects so they *can* fail [easily] and learn from them

One of my favorite quotes of all time is David Kelley from IDEO’s “Fail Faster, Succeed Sooner”. I’m a nerd, so I even have the quote hung up near my desk to remind me to just make something or do something. Trying it, instead of postulating about it. A friend just sent me a link [...]

Design Research Conference Digest: Darrel Rhea

Well, it’s over, and I’m beat. Now, I have a ton to catch up with that I’ve slightly neglected over the course of the weekend, but the conference was well worth it. I’ll do a few posts here and there about some interesting points that the speakers have made: Darrel Rhea: CEO/Principal, Cheskin. Talked about [...]

Don’t be evil

This “trick your customer” affair would make Seth Godin vomit. As reported by Consumerist a while back, a “secret” intranet-only kiosk was placed in the Best Buy stores in order to deceive customers who tried to check product prices. Here’s the typical use: buyer would be sitting at home on the internet, check a product [...]