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PART 3 of 4 Months after eating at El Bulli my thoughts and perspectives on the meal are still changing: Certain taste memories are extremely vivid and seem to get stronger, others are bizarrely still changing. It has also been fascinating to compare and contrast my experience there with other innovative...
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Being a designer is not only a fun job, it is becoming a serious job. They are tasked with the burden of solving many of the world’s wicked problems, doing things they were not even taught in design school. Design education is also at a crossroads. I’ve had many discussions with design education...
Experience Design, Featured Articles, Industrial Design, Mobile Design, Technology
Industry (aerospace, telecom, defense, automotive, consumer electronics, etc.) has developed a growing interest in Human-Computer Interaction. They see it as being powerful with numerous features but that does not ensure a product will be successful at all without having a clear usage understanding by...
Featured Articles, Industrial Design, Social Change
Being the dean of a design school is no easy job today. Design schools are struggling to serve three masters: the student, the industry and society. The last one is a new one as generally designers have now come to a consensus that designs for social change is a part of the design agenda. With limited...
Organizational Design
About a month ago, I attended my graduate school reunion and was struck by two observations. The first was simply how quickly time flies. It’s a mundane thought but in pausing for a minute to think about the implications of passing time, its finite nature drives our world. Whether we’re...
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A growing body of research in the area of addiction suggests that Social Media Addiction Disorder is becoming a real problem, it is a psychophysiological disorder involving tolerance; withdrawal symptoms; affective disturbances; and interruption of social relationships. The most common one is Facebook...
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El·e·gant, an adjective and define or characterized by or exhibiting refined, tasteful beauty of manner, form, or style. Marc Jacob? Chanel? Jil Sander? Hermes? All are unquestionably elegant by design in the fashion world. How about Amazon Kindle? Apple iPhone? Blackberry? Are they elegant? Is elegant...
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Ubicomp, (or ubiquitous computing) is a term that describes how computing devices will become invisible to the user as they gradually find a use and a home in all objects. For anyone who works in the technology space, the idea of ubicomp is incredible, inevitable, and the next evolutionary step for society....
Art and Culture, Entertainment, Experience Design, Industrial Design, Service Design
PART 2 of 4 This is the second in a four part series on my adventure ding at El Bulli. Before heading up the coast to Roses I spent some time in Barcelona exploring the Boqueria market. The market is the perfect place to understand the terroir of Catalonia and a major inspirational source for Ferran...
Industrial Design, Service Design, Strategic Innovation, Technology, Web
This is a week of design for me, meeting with two talented design practitioners in Boston who are running a very successful company, talked to the folks running two of the top design schools and interviewed 4 designers respectively from London, Brazil, LA and Toronto. And catching with my design reading...
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