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Live From PopTech: Designing for Impact

The second report from this year's PopTech conference, American Reimagined, by its fellows program adviser Robert Fabricant.READ»

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Live From PopTech: Bringing Design to Social Innovators

Robert Fabricant talks about his role as an adviser in the conference's fellowship program.READ»

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The Future of Health Care Is Social [slideshow]

Read the feature article: The Future of Health Care is Social Join in the conversation this Thursday October 8 at noon eastern, when frog design holds a discussion about the future of health care on Twitter (follow @frogdesign ...READ»

The Future of Health Care Is Social

Too many of us are too busy to be healthy--not because we lack awareness. It's finding the time to do it that's the problem. In an age of 24/7 connectivity, time feels more pressed than ever. Yet, it may be that the very technology allowing us this around-the-clock connection can transform how we manage our health.READ»

Is the Kindle Destined for SkyMall?

Five strategies to save Jeff Bezos' e-ink empire before it's too late.READ»

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How to Innovate, Step by Step

So how does a company become an engine of innovation? Although we are all unique and unpredictable in our strengths and shortcomings, most successful innovators follow some common steps in the innovation process. In his new book "A Fine Line: How Design Strategies Are Shaping the Future of Business," frog design founder Hartmut Esslinger presents these steps in a broad outline.READ»

MDR-TB: Is Innovation Within Reach?

As a participant in the recent Pacific Health Summit, I was struck by the bold talk of innovative approaches to addressing the global threat of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). And yet few of the projects that were ...READ»

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MDR-TB: The Galapagos Effect in Health Care

I hope I got your attention with my last post about the Pacific Health Summit and the acute global threat of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB). All of the issues around innovation in public health that I are covered in this ...READ»

Hartmut Esslinger's Amazing Apple Mac Prototypes

Rare images of Apple Macintosh prototypes found in frog design founder Hartmut Esslinger's new book offer a glimpse of Apple's alternate history.READ»

MDR-TB: A Healthcare Crisis of Our Own Design

What happens when innovation meets with the messy reality of domains like public health?READ»

Frog Design's Latest: A Postcard App for iPhone

Postcard Express lets you send geotagged e-postcards everywhere you go with your iPhone.READ»

How Microsoft Is Priming the Mood of Bing Searches

There is a growing dialogue within the design community around how to drive sustainable behavior change in areas like health and energy. With it has come an increased awareness that often seemingly trivial elements of a ...READ»

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Is Innovation at a Crossroads?

Over the last few years the traditional thinking about innovation has been turned on its head. We used to assume that innovation was driven by access to the most advanced tools and resources. But the emphasis has shifted more ...READ»

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Kindle DX: Why Size Matters

People have a lot of expectations for the new, larger-sized Kindle DX. Interesting how a shift in size / form factor can hold the fate of an entire industry (newspapers in this case) in its hand. Wow, the power of industrial design! I ...READ»

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Re-Kindling your Brand

It's such a relief to have a new cause celebre in the world of product design--particularly something not made by Apple. I am talking about the new Kindle, of course. I can finally take the iPhone out of every one of my presentation ...READ»

As Consumers' Demands Change, Designers Are All in the Behavior Business

Over the past few months, I've been busy riling up the design community with a theory that designers are now in the "behavior business," and I plan to explore this further in my posts in the coming weeks. Many of the ...READ»

Welcoming Guest Blogger Robert Fabricant: Designing for the Unpredictable

Camden, Maine in October is a pretty laid-back place. But when I saw Robert Fabricant, VP of creative at frog design, there last fall, he was a pretty distracted guy. The initiative he had been working on for more than a year, ...READ»

The Pan-Disciplinary Future of Creative Employment

Creatives today need to be "superpeople" who can write, be personable and--gasp!--talk finance as well. That's the takeaway from a panel of design professionals convened at SXSW by Coroflot, the design jobs site well-known ...READ»

Saving The New York Times with Twitter?

Coming up with innovative ideas is a lot like constructing a good joke. At least that's what Luke Williams, creative director with product-design firm Frog Design, said at Columbia Business School’s BRITE Conference on ...READ»

The Most Innovative Companies in Design

You have seen our Fast Company 50. But what are the companies within specific categories doing creative and ground-breaking work? Who is leading an industry into the future? Here we present the top ten firms in Design.READ»

Building a Sustainable Design Community

Valerie Casey of Ideo is rallying the creative community to the Designers Accord, her version of a Kyoto treaty for designers -- and her peers are signing on in droves. Now comes the hard part.READ»

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