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Retail Health Clinics Are Rolling Your Way – May 2006 – Family Practice Management (tags: medicine healthcare)

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

ID methods project – ID Wiki (tags: design methods innovation wiki) Smart Furniture Using passivity to store information about student learning – explore for ELR (tags: ELR learning furniture design smart)

The Heart of Innovation: Big Problem or Right Problem? The Egg Freckles Saga. innovation failure- add to IX (tags: innovation casestudy)

getAbstract Book Summaries: Thousands of Book Summaries online! (tags: book summary reference) Main Page Summary – WikiSummaries, free book summaries (tags: books wiki Reference summary review)

Heuristics for User Interface Design (tags: heuristics user-centered cognition)

This week promises to be a hectic one. Apart from our distinguished prof, Chuck Owens being in New Zealand while our systems class races forward to complete “function structures,” make sure that our “defining statements” are right, and we’re on track to come up with a plan to reform health care. Okay, if you don’t [...]

YouTube – Richard Dawkins – “What if you’re wrong?” (tags: religion dawkins evolution) 100 Fastest Growing Emerging Market Companies–Watch Them. (tags: emerging markets enterprise business BRIC)

Metacognition – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia electronic learning record (tags: cognition learning education)