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Live From PopTech: Designing for Impact

Robert Fabricant — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:30:33 -0400

The design process really kicked into high gear on day three--Kevin Starr of the Rainer Arnhold Fellows program and I teamed up for our presentation.

Members of the PopTech fellows program

Live From PopTech: Bringing Design to Social Innovators

Robert Fabricant — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:58:20 -0400

Every year (at least for the last two) I have had the honor of serving as part of the core faculty of the PopTech Fellows Program. This means I'm involved in the planning stages for this five-day retreat. No matter how much time I spend preparing for the program, I'm always astounded when I finally meet the fellows.

The Future of Health Care Is Social [slideshow]

Jennifer Kilian and Barbara Pantuso — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:17:56 -0400

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 and the hash tag #futureofhealthcare).

The Future of Health Care Is Social

Jennifer Kilian and Barbara Pantuso — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:00:05 -0400

Health care is a personal issue that has become wholly public--as the national debate over reforming our system makes painfully clear. But what's often lost in the gun-toting Town Hall debates about the issue is a clear vision about how medicine could work in the future. In this feature article, frog design uses its people-centered design discipline to show how elegant health and life science technology solutions will one day become a natural part of our behavior and lifestyle.

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Is the Kindle Destined for SkyMall?

Robert Fabricant — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:38:26 -0400

The hype around the iTablet is reaching a fever pitch with the Kindle increasingly looking like yet another example of Apple roadkill. If Apple can consume 32% of the profits in the mobile phone biz in less than three years, it should be no problem to swallow the nascent e-reader business in one quick bite.
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How to Innovate, Step by Step

Fast Company staff — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:45:05 -0400

So how does a company become an engine of innovation? Although humans and the organizations they create are all unique and unpredictable in their 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 and simple outline.
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MDR-TB: Is Innovation Within Reach?

Robert Fabricant — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:52:49 -0400

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 presented involved partners from outside the public health community.
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MDR-TB: The Galapagos Effect in Health Care

Robert Fabricant — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:00:00 -0400

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 post need to be placed in the perspective of this challenge and the human costs associated with it.
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Hartmut Esslinger's Amazing Apple Mac Prototypes

Noah Robischon — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:23:10 -0400

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MDR-TB: A Healthcare Crisis of Our Own Design

Robert Fabricant — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:49:16 -0400

Last month I attended the Pacific Health Summit in Seattle. It is a pretty exclusive venue (aspiring to be the "Davos of Health Care") attended by senior representatives from the world of health care and public policy (such as Dr. Anthony Fauci from the NIH, Dr.
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Frog Design's Latest: A Postcard App for iPhone

Cliff Kuang — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:53:53 -0400

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How Microsoft Is Priming the Mood of Bing Searches

Robert Fabricant — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:50:53 -0400

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 design--like a smiley face on a utility bill--have a lasting impact.
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Is Innovation at a Crossroads?

Robert Fabricant — Wed, 13 May 2009 22:34:08 -0400

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 recently to the role that scarcity plays in driving innovation.
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Kindle DX: Why Size Matters

Robert Fabricant — Wed, 06 May 2009 12:45:34 -0400

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 wish a larger screen could save the Boston Globe. But I doubt that is the case, at least not in the way people are hoping.
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Re-Kindling your Brand

Robert Fabricant — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:10:56 -0400

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

Robert Fabricant — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:28:03 -0400

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 challenges that businesses are facing cannot be addressed without a strategy for influencing consumer behavior in a positive and sustained manner, in areas like personal finance and preventative care.
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Welcoming Guest Blogger Robert Fabricant: Designing for the Unpredictable

Linda Tischler — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:45:25 -0400

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, Project Masiluleke, was about to debut at Pop!Tech, the annual in-gathering of digerati and the folks who love them, and Robert was the man at the center of the action.
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The Pan-Disciplinary Future of Creative Employment

Alissa Walker — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:06:11 -0400

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 for its annual salary survey.
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Saving The New York Times with Twitter?

Abha Bhattarai — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:18:25 -0500

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 Thursday.

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The Most Innovative Companies in Design

Linda Tischler — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:08:05 -0500

Ideo: The undisputed design champ, with new work for the Department of Energy and TSA, Medtronic, PNC Bank, and (Red).

Marcel Wanders Studio: A growing global brand, Wanders produced a glam design for Miami's Mondrian hotel; a flurry of home products; and a new Villa Moda store for the "Sheik of Chic," Kuwait's Majed al-Sabah.

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Building a Sustainable Design Community

Anya Kamenetz — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:30:23 -0400

"Take the thing that you think everyone would agree on, and turn it around." That's the advice Valerie Casey, green-eyed third child of Irish immigrants, got when writing her first high-school paper, on My Fair Lady. "I actually remember the thesis statement: 'Henry Higgins wished he was a woman.' It was too much! But I remember getting an A on it."
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