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Technology Review: Smart Phone Suggests Things to Do (tags: research mobile phone PARC) Eyetracking points the way to effective news article design (tags: usability eyetracking webdesign design)

Piramal Prize (tags: healthcare prize innovation)

The Customer Connection: The Global ­­­Innovation 1000 (tags: innovation customer consulting)

Sometimes, while in the very fragile state of mind, during ideation sessions you bolt out with a flash of inspiration and a great idea, someone in your team (or an rss-feed-equipped-photographic-memory troll from the deep recesses of your brain) will leap up and pull up the website of a company that is–to be blunt–already doing [...]

Why compete on being the low price vendor, when you can boast about taking the least time out of your client’s life? Anab Jain has an interesting thought experiment and project about this.  What if everything you purchase (products and services) were denoted by the amount of time that they took to consume (hours/minutes spent [...]

In the Lead – WSJ.com (tags: demographic marketing bizdev) Faceted classification – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (tags: classification taxonomy faceted folksonomy) Business.view | America’s emobyte deficit | Economist.com wow. just, wow. (tags: china culture internet)

One of the greatest disservices we can do to ourselves as design students is pay unadulterated obeisance to the 98+ methods that exist in ID’s coffers without considering architecting new ones to elicit human understanding… or make stuff. Here is my recipe for crafting a design method. Take two parts Creativity (yes, I did say [...]

Mayang’s Free Texture Library (tags: textures free design resources graphics)

If you’re wondering why there haven’t been any posts in a while, it’s because it’s finals time here at the Institute of Design. We’re all collectively scrambling to turn out final presentations, semester long workshop deliverables, and I’m still helping a few guys finish up loose ends for a class that I am assistant-teaching. I [...]