Andrew Lockhart

Andrew is an experience architect who struggles to tie ties, but likes wearing them nonetheless.

• 4 Keys to Service Level Co-Creation
• The Hierarchy of Digital Distractions
• Big Jumps – Soft Landings

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Ashley Perez

Ashley is a media and communications professional with extensive experience in public relations, corporate and entertainment production, and newspaper writing and editing. Her ability to communicate concisely, clearly and contextually is proven time and again. Prior to Idea Couture, Ashley split...

• Sustainability Encourages Apparel Recycling
• Are You an Integrated Thinker?
• Lady Gaga + Idea Couture

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Adam Rubin

Adam is a passionate integrator of strategy, technology and design. A formally trained musician with extensive rich-media production experience for clients in the entertainment, healthcare, legal, food & beverages and insurance spaces, he brings his creativity and business acumen to every...

• Embracing the Petabyte Age, Part III: The Mechanization of Man
• Search. Chat. Email. Facebook?
• An Innovative Breeze. Meet the Dyson Air Multiplier.

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Andrew Swanson

Andrew is a resident design writer at Noodleplay.com. His interest is in User Interfaces and Interaction design. What interests him is having the opportunity to improve the quality of user interfaces and typefaces in the fast-proliferating handheld consumer devices market. He is a graduate of...

• I Might be a Believer in 3D Films
• BMW Design Team Showing Off Their Range
• Google Voice Can’t Come Soon Enough…

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Cheesan Chew

Cheesan is a leader in identifying customers’ needs through empathy-based discovery that help clients build innovative digital experiences leveraging social technology, defining new product and service offerings, and establish processes that support sustainable growth. With her roots in the...

• Where’s the passion?
• Bicycle Parking Innovation
• 15 Questions to Assess Your Firm’s “Innovation Readiness”

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Edwin Lee

Edwin is a business strategist with experience spanning a mosaic of diverse industries. He has a sharp analytical mind that can navigate through executional details while keeping a trained eye on the big picture. During his consulting career, he has led numerous strategic planning engagements for...

• Logo backlash: The university of ‘pew pew’?
• “Thank you for tweeting Best Buy…how can I help you?”
• Jeff Goldblum and how Twitter is no CNN just yet

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Emma Aiken-Klar

Emma Aiken-Klar is a doctor, professor, writer, researcher, anthropologist, blogger, wife, mother, daughter, sister, diaper-changer, chef, housekeeper, chauffeur, butcher, baker, and candlestick maker. She has a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the University of Toronto, and an M.A. in...

• I’ve been replaced by an iPhone app!

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Idris Mootee

An renowned expert and authority on the intersecting subjects of business strategy, innovation and social technologies. Idris partners with clients in all sectors globally to identify their highest-value innovation opportunities, address their most critical challenges, and help them realize the...

• There is never a better time to be a designer. What are the best design schools?
• HCI IS PLAYING CATCHUP WITH FAST CHANGING COMPUTING PARADIGMS
• Engineer Desirability That They Don’t Teach You In Design Schools

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John Cavacas

John is a technology architect with 12+ years of experience in web and internet application architecture and development. He has worked with many diverse technology platforms to architect and develop robust and innovative solutions. He has mentored and led development teams for Blast Radius and...

• Speed matters
• How the iPhone’s tiny little camera is enabling a whole new world of photography

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Jesse Diephuis

Jesse Diephuis (deep-house) is an Industrial Designer with over 10 years of experience in Automotive Design. His interest in foresight strategy and consumer product development has helped him to provide businesses with better solutions for market needs. His resume includes name brands such...

• Want more passion from you automotive product? See Hyundai for examples.
• From car design to innovation consultant – a story about joining Idea Couture
• Bygone Nostalgic Design VS. the Emerging World. Part 2

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John Lally

John is VP of Business Development at Idea Couture. He lives with his wife and daughter in San Francisco.

• The Charter for Compassion
• US Interstate Map Meets the London Underground
• Turning Fashionista Customers into Buyers

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Jeff Richter

Jeff has been doing Usability and Human Factors stuff for over 10 years. He started with the Department of Defense, then moved to IBM, and then entered the Interactive world.

• When bad usability turns good
• Marimekko Camping By Numbers
• Just tell me what to buy!

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Jackie Siddall

• Twitter made me buy a boat
• Heads-up displays – wayfinding (and more!) on the mountain
• Kraft Product Ideation Centers

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Jessica Tien

Jessica is an industrial designer at Idea Couture. Her work reflects her special interest and ability to find new ways of handling everyday objects and by elegantly applying human-centered design principles; adding excitement, value and convenience to products and creating unique and meaningful...

• How To Familiarize Yourself With A City In Three Days
• Call me Cr4zy
• Mocha – The Portable, Shareable, Collapsible Bench

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Kengwei Lu

Kengwei lives and breathes art. He is passionate about simple and elegant design and the technological innovations that make compelling experiences come to life. As Head of Design, his mind, skills and passions span across interactive media and physically interactive spaces. Kengwei designs...

• Color Concierge by Crate & Barrel
• Caress – The Next Generation Glucometer
• RedCrumb

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Lily Tse

Lily is an experienced Art Director who found her true calling to be in the creative business when she first sold a DIY bookmark to her younger sister at age 10. With 10 years of agency experience, Lily began her career in advertising and marketing in e-commerce department of MoMA, New York....

• Karma is a B*tch
• Meet these Eco-friendly Innovators on Earth Day
• Magazine you can wear and play

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Morgan Gerard

Drawing on over ten years of academic training and ethnographic fieldwork, Morgan analyzes and decodes the meanings of rituals, performances, objects, art, institutions, belief systems and other 'symbols' as he defines them. His anthropological training has myriad application in business, branding,...

• The Mind of the Consumer Other
• 5 Client Tips For Buying Ethnography
• Astorino Hospital Design

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Mathew Lincez

Mathew is currently the Co-Head of Design Research and resident futurist at Idea Futures (an Idea Couture company) where he is engaged in design research and strategic foresight practices for a variety of fortune 500 companies and private sector clients. Mathew is also frequently engaged in...

• From Touch To Feel- Part 3
• From Touch To Feel- Part 2
• From Touch To Feel- Part 1

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Maryam Nabavi

Maryam Nabavi is an Experience Designer and Innovation Strategist at Idea Couture. Maryam was trained as an aerospace engineer in undergraduate and earned a Double Masters in Innovation Design Engineering from Royal College of Art & Imperial College of London. Working at different companies,...

• Jack of all Trades – The Grandfather of Multi-disciplinary Thinking?
• Space Flight and Public Engagement

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Nick Sutcliffe

A passionate marketer and relationship-builder, Nick has broad experience in building long-term partnerships. His priorities include developing alignment with client goals and ensuring realistic and sustainable plans are built to meet those goals. Previously, he worked at Corus Entertainment,...

• Pentatonic Scale

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Patrick Dunn

Patrick is an experienced research specialist with broad international and industry experience consulting with Fortune 500 clientele on market entry/research projects. Project experience includes branding, innovative concept tests, advanced customer segmentation, competitive analysis,...

• Cheering for the “Away Team”: Satisfaction and Sport
• Market Research in the Age of Social Media
• The Art of War- Attack Marketing

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Patrick Glinski

A specialist in digital strategy, planning and play-based facilitation, Patrick is the Head of Social Innovation at Idea Couture. Patrick is proud to have "seen the light" and discover design thinking after failing to get excited by a formal business education and years in the credit card industry....

• Classifying Crowdsourcing Platforms
• Do you tell the client they’re wrong?
• Hopes and Fears from eMetrics Toronto

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Paul Morrison

• 10/GUI – Multitouch of the future
• Apples Keynote, Boiled down to superlatives.
• Jack Nicholson Was My Favorite Childhood Cartoon

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Riwa Harfoush

• Prada vs. Permaculture

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Richard Lee

Richard is Vice President, Corporate Development at Idea Couture. A seasoned business executive who revels in the challenge of solving complex business problems, his professional experience spans digital media, consumer electronics, entertainment, and I.T.

• My Belated CES 2010 Trip Report: The iPad wasn’t there.
• Old Media, Old Habits
• A billion dollars, one penny at a time

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Richard Thomas

Resident Futures Explorer and Design Fiction Dramatist.

• The Very Many: Marc Fornes Generative A(rt)chitecture
• Atompunk Prologue Party @ Volkskrantgebouw Amsterdam
• The Real eyePhone Platform is Coming

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Ryan White

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

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Scott Friedmann

Scott is a creative business artist who connects big ideas with brands, products and campaigns. A dynamic thinker who operates at the intersection of business model innovation, social media and service design, he is responsible for leading a multi-disciplinary team to develop innovative ideas for...

• elbulli – part 3
• The Most Innovative Meal on Earth: Dining at El Bulli – Part 2
• The Most Innovative Meal on Earth: Dining at El Bulli – part 1

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Simon Greer

• The Internet is Dead?

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Shannon King

• More Guerrilla Please
• Carpooling in style

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