BYRavi Sawhney Relevancy Score: 100 Wed Nov 11, 2009 at 7:25 PM
Shifting the consumer paradigm to sustainable products, processes, and experiences has to begin with a fundamental shift in the way we think, the way we do business, and the way we all live our lives.READ»
The greatest design innovations invariably have a story behind them: the insight that led to a radical new way to solve a problem, the failure that led to a breakthrough, the serendipity where colliding forces led to a profound ...READ»
BYRavi Sawhney Relevancy Score: 100 Thu Aug 27, 2009 at 2:34 PM
A "dream team" of designers could improve America's ailing system by focusing on health care as a series of meaningful, user-centered experiences.READ»
BYRavi Sawhney Relevancy Score: 100 Tue Jun 9, 2009 at 1:48 PM
In my last post, I shared five short-term strategies for surviving the downturn by using design thinking as a roadmap to connect your business with consumers. Once you've weathered the worst of the economic storms, it's time to ...READ»
BYAlissa Walker Relevancy Score: 100 Fri Jun 5, 2009 at 7:45 PM
With more details about the Palm Pre and some rumors about Apple’s 2009 iPhone event on Tuesday, it seemed a good time to gather our design experts together and ponder some issues about our love affair with mobile. Today's question: How can cell phones be used to improve the world?READ»
BYRavi Sawhney Relevancy Score: 100 Thu Jun 4, 2009 at 10:43 AM
History has shown that hard times can provide as much opportunity as pitfalls. Want proof? Motorola, Hewlett-Packard, and Xerox are just three innovation-driven companies that were founded during the Great Depression. More recently, ...READ»
BYRavi Sawhney Relevancy Score: 100 Fri May 22, 2009 at 1:56 AM
Over the past decade, driven by an ever-more sophisticated consumer, design has gone from being a bonus to being an essential ingredient in almost every market sector.
Target earned itself a spot on Fast Company's 2008 Fast 50 ...READ»
BYRavi Sawhney Relevancy Score: 100 Fri May 8, 2009 at 2:57 PM
Design. Everyone seems to know about it. Some discredit it as superficial, while others crave it as a lifestyle. Business can be perplexed by it or harness its power. Not even designers can agree on its meaning.
It's no wonder ...READ»
BYRavi Sawhney Relevancy Score: 100 Tue May 12, 2009 at 2:23 PM
A couple of weeks ago, the billionth iPhone app was downloaded from the App Store. Not bad for only nine months. How are iPhone apps related to heroes? I believe that a key to truly successful design is creating products that ...READ»
BYRavi Sawhney Relevancy Score: 100 Wed May 13, 2009 at 2:08 PM
While designs are often the result of great inspiration, I'm even more interested in designs that themselves inspire. I'm a great believer in design's power to effect positive change in the world. Understandably, the first job ...READ»
BYRavi Sawhney Relevancy Score: 100 Fri May 15, 2009 at 10:59 AM
In professional industrial design, designs aren't really for the designers. They aren't even for the clients. They're for the end-users. I believe we get the best results when we "design from the first-person perspective" ...READ»
BYAlissa Walker Relevancy Score: 98 Tue Jun 9, 2009 at 3:38 PM
Once again we've got our favorite design experts gathered around our virtual roundtable, talking about cell phones. Here's how our design roundtables work: We choose the topic, put forth a few questions to our panel ...READ»
BYRavi Sawhney Relevancy Score: 97 Mon May 11, 2009 at 6:12 PM
I like to explore design's reach into unexpected places. Today, I'd like to focus on design in politics… specifically, how, by creating emotional connection, the Web site my.barackobama.com (commonly known as MyBO) ...READ»
Design educators are reinventing the industry from the inside out as employers are less interested in students' ability to sketch, and more interested in their ability to think and communicate strategically. READ»
BYAlissa Walker Relevancy Score: 51 Thu Jun 4, 2009 at 4:24 PM
Wouldn't it be fun, we thought, to gather our growing roster of design expert bloggers in a room and toss out hot-button design issues for them to ponder, peruse and debate? Well, we can't overnight them to our Fast Company ...READ»
BYLinda Tischler Relevancy Score: 37 Thu May 7, 2009 at 2:49 PM
I am not a slave to design. I have an embarrassingly low tech cell phone. Carry a functional, non-designer handbag. Do not wear cool, Kazuo Kawasaki glasses. But I'm in love with my cleverly-designed water bottle. It's the envy of ...READ»
