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Welcoming Guest Blogger Mark Dziersk: "Creativity Plus Risk Gets You the Grade"

One of the biggest complaints designers in consumer product companies have is that their organization's engineers just don't ‘get' design. That, they would argue, is why so many products--especially in consumer electronics--are so ...READ»

Why Design Still Has Such Limited Corporate Impact--and What to Do About It

Despite the best efforts of the design community to the contrary, design is still struggling to influence companies in meaningful ways. The fault lies mostly within the design profession itself, which is unable to supply leadership ...READ»

• Six Ways to Avoid Landing in the Product Failure Bin
• The Myth of the Rational Buyer: How Too Much Thinking Can Hurt Your Brand
• Design's Boom-and-Bust Cycle: Ten Years In, Ten to Go

The Myth of the Rational Buyer: How Too Much Thinking Can Hurt Your Brand

What if something you thought you knew to be true, turned out to be exactly the opposite? What if an approach you imagined was working for you was actually working against you? Imagine if it were true, for example, that almost ...READ»

• Design's Boom-and-Bust Cycle: Ten Years In, Ten to Go
• Ten Things to Demand From Design Thinkers
• Welcoming Guest Blogger Mark Dziersk: "Creativity Plus Risk Gets You the Grade"

A Club is Reborn

Kelli Delaney Creative Director Members Only A onetime stylist who helped start celeb-mad US Weekly, Kelli Delaney relaunched Members Only last fall. "Members Only was known for menswear, but we started with womenswear ...READ»

• Designs on Success
• Homage to History
• Beyond Ballistic

What I Know Now

What lessons has Len Schlesinger learned since he went from professor at Harvard B-school to COO of Limited Brands?READ»

What I Know Now

What lessons has Len Schlesinger learned since he went from professor at Harvard B-school to COO of Limited Brands?READ»

Design's Boom-and-Bust Cycle: Ten Years In, Ten to Go

The topic of design has generated a lot of buzz lately--so much, in fact, that some suggest that the renewed interest in all things creative is a passing fad. Not exactly. If we let history be our guide, we'll see that there's a ...READ»

• Ten Things to Demand From Design Thinkers

Six Ways to Avoid Landing in the Product Failure Bin

A decade ago the ability to generate ideas for businesses was a terrific and unique offering, and often a good business. Many companies and consultants were conducting workshops aimed at coming up hundreds of ideas, and ...READ»

• The Myth of the Rational Buyer: How Too Much Thinking Can Hurt Your Brand
• Design's Boom-and-Bust Cycle: Ten Years In, Ten to Go
• Ten Things to Demand From Design Thinkers

Ten Things to Demand From Design Thinkers

Design thinking is currently an "It" concept, the topic of countless books and blogs and conference panels. While it can mean a lot of different things to different people, for me, design thinking is a methodology, a tool, ...READ»

Project Rehab

As an academic renegade, Tim Gunn pushed Parsons the New School for Design to adopt a businesslike curriculum. Now the star of Project Runway is trying to revive Liz Claiborne as its chief creative officer. Can he "make it work" or is it "auf Wiedersehen" for a once-great American fashion house?READ»

• Life After Project Runway -- on the Web
• From Project Runway to the Web
• Put Some Style In Your Lifestyle

Buzz Without Bucks

Smart companies are discovering that you don't need big budgets to deliver a big message. By cleverly cultivating buzz, small businesses with tiny budgets can level the playing field with established giants. Their motto: When it comes to building a brand, word of mouth is priceless.READ»