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So here is the kicker. Android, as well as Chrome and Chrome OS for that matter, are not “products” in the classic business sense. They have no plan to become their own “economic castles.” Rather they are very expensive and very aggressive “moats,” funded by the height and magnitude of Google’s castle. Google’s aim is…
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But not all jugaad stories have happy endings. M. P. Ranjan, an eminent Indian design thinker and a member of the Governing Council of the Indian Institute of Crafts and Design, says that the idea that ad-hoc fixes are good enough might actually be to blame for the country’s notoriously creaky infrastructure. “It is an…
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AIGA Carnegie Mellon: “Design Thinking” Isn’t a Miracle Cure, but Here’s How It Helps
AIGA Carnegie Mellon: “Design Thinking” Isn’t a Miracle Cure, but Here’s How It Helps aigacmu: An interesting article that is very relevant to the discussions we are having in the School of Design and our current lecture series. Helen Walters writes: Recently, Kevin McCullagh of British product strategy consultancy, Plan organized a two-day event for…
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Design Thinking Is A Failed Experiment. So What’s Next? | Co.Design
Design Thinking Is A Failed Experiment. So What’s Next? | Co.Design stoweboyd: Bruce Nussbaum hits the eject button on Design Thinking, saying that this movement — which arose from agencies trying to reach past the narrow confines of product or brand-related design and into the real guts of business — has petered out, it’s goals…
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The NETLab Toolkit is a system for tangible interaction sketching and production. It enables novices and experts to quickly integrate hardware, media and interactive behaviors for products, installations, and research. The NETLab Toolkit (which we often abbreviate as NLTK) is a project of The New Ecology of Things Lab. (via NETLab Toolkit)