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An evolution in the making; from designing things to designing experiences.

Posted by: Jesse Diephuis, at 1:42 pm on April 19, 2011

Conditions are ripe for collaborative design to take place in creating solutions beyond Industrial Design programs and outside of traditional R&D centers of Automotive OEMs.

The phenomenon of cheaper, faster, better (better in terms of having more options) is more a result of global economics than it is a corporate mandate.  If you think about Bauhaus (the origins of Industrial Design) and how it was intended to provide a social service of making houses and household product...

Articles, Experience Design, Industrial Design, Service Design, Social Media, Strategic Innovation, Technology

Digital people are the world’s best innovators

Posted by: Patrick Glinski, at 7:17 am on March 18, 2011

I’m not trying to discount the capabilities of industrial designers, researchers, or architects who’ve found their way into the innovation space, but the qualities of digital innovators put them in a unique position to solve some of the world’s biggest problems.

Idea Couture has its roots in digital innovation. Frog, Adaptive Path, my good friends at Normative Design, and many other leading innovation firms also have amazingly strong foundations in the digital world. Three years ago, I left the interactive industry to pursue innovation consulting, and while...

Articles, Consumer Electronics, Entertainment, Featured Articles, Social Media, Technology, Web

Information Overload and the Great Purge of 2011

Posted by: Adam Rubin, at 4:13 pm on December 27, 2010

More is not always better, because there’s only so much that we can digest. The signal to noise ratio does not necessarily improve if that which was once signal converts to noise as new signals are introduced into the system.

There is no shortage of recommendation tools on the web. Amazon recommends books, Pandora recommends music, YouTube recommends video, just to name a few of the more popular online services. While the added value is obvious in the realm of personalized content discovery, if we keep adding streams of...

Articles, Economics, Featured Articles, Technology

Bell’s new internet service limits usage to 7 hours a month.

Posted by: Ryan White, at 7:58 pm on July 13, 2010

I was really excited when I saw that Canada was getting some new DSL services that would give customers access to faster speeds and start making things like real time HD streaming video a reality. If you are not in Canada and haven’t heard, Bell has a new service that offers speeds up to 25Mbps download...

Social Change, Social Media, sustainability, Technology, Web

Karma is a B*tch

Posted by: ltse, at 1:07 pm on June 3, 2010

Consumers are smarter than ever- in fact, most consumers today would agree that when they go shopping, they want to know more about the companies they are buying from. From food to clothes to cars, the ever-expanding socially responsible shoppers want to know if the companies they are buying from...

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Bygone Nostalgic Design VS. the Emerging World.  Part 2

Posted by: Jesse Diephuis, at 8:03 pm on May 20, 2010

To address better ways of integrating Transportation in Urban environments requires a very wide-angle perspective lens in order to view the whole scenario of life in an urban environment as well as those in and around the  emerging world. It requires that we put ourselves on the same streets of the...

Articles, Experience Design, Explorations, Featured Articles, Industrial Design, Service Design, Social Change, Strategic Foresight, Strategic Innovation, sustainability, Technology, Transportation Desgin

Bygone Nostalgic Design VS. the Emerging World.  Part 1

Posted by: Jesse Diephuis, at 10:01 am on May 18, 2010

Traditionally, the notion of Beauty and Elegance is what makes classic examples of automotive design, which is designed to encourage observers to dream about an irreverent future.  In the early days of the 1920’s and 1930’s these notions of dramatic proportions were predicated on people who lived...

Articles, Experience Design, Organizational Design, Social Change, Social Media, Strategic Innovation, Technology

Classifying Crowdsourcing Platforms

Posted by: Patrick Glinski, at 9:15 am on April 27, 2010

Modeling the role of crowdsourcing in an organization’s innovation process.

Innovation used to be referred to be a virtuous and closed cycle. Spend money on research, develop a new big idea, create a new product, reap the benefits, and do it all over again. These days, the model of closed innovation has cracked. A workforce with less organizational loyalty, faster time to market,...

Articles, Explorations, Featured Articles, Technology

From Touch To Feel- Part 2

Posted by: Mathew Lincez, at 12:44 pm on April 23, 2010

So what do we (and the brands we live by) gain by replacing our buttons with pixels and graphics? The answer is: possibilities. Touch opens a wider variety of interface and application options not constrained by old degrees of interaction physicality. It has improved on the accessibility and experience...

Art and Culture, Explorations, Industrial Design, Social Change, Strategic Innovation, Technology, Transportation Desgin, Uncategorized

From Logs to Logarithms

Posted by: Jesse Diephuis, at 1:22 pm on April 20, 2010

As designers/industrial designers/architects/visionary futurists we must be able to employ many tools, and with the passing of the hand-drawn ship curves we are now permanently entering the realm of an almost fully digital process.   With so many new softwares becoming available, the creative...