The Art of Design Research (and Why It Matters) | Blog | design mind

June 1, 2011

Design can exist without “the research.” But if we don’t study the world, we don’t always know how or what to create. Recently, my colleague Ben McAllister contributed a piece to this section called “The ‘Science’ of Good Design: A Dangerous Idea.” In it he cautioned against a simplistic view of research as it applies [...]

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Teen Who Sold White iPhone Kits Reveals How Apple Hunted Him Down

May 28, 2011

via Fast Company One of the last followers of tech news to hear the reports Thursday that Apple had sued Fei Lam, the 17-year-old Queens high … Read More >>

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What Really Keeps Poor People Poor

May 27, 2011

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Xerox PARC, Apple, and the Creation of the Mouse : The New Yorker

May 23, 2011

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The Knee Bone’s Connected To The Smartphone

May 19, 2011

via Fast Company That’s the future we envision, after seeing this Microsoft tech that projects what’s going on underneath your skin, on top of … Read More >>

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frog design: Be Like Water

May 11, 2011

via PSFK The design world seems to be drifting away from its heritage. More and more designers are becoming increasingly … Read More >>

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Facebook Roulette pits you against three friends, the loser’s account is deleted

May 11, 2011

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The New Role of Money in Admissions: Is This the End of the Meritocratic Ideal?

May 11, 2011

via GOOD Affluent students in the U.K. are about to get a big leg up in the college admissions game. Under a new proposal, students … Read More >>

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Chucking TV Helped me Start my Company (joshwhiton.com)

May 9, 2011

One smart thing I did after college was get rid of my TV. I was trying to start a company and television was getting in my way. With my daily diet of setbacks, tough decisions, and steep learning curves, it was too easy to turn on the TV when things got tough and too hard [...]

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EUobserver / Portugal gets own Silicon Valley

May 7, 2011

Headed up by former Microsoft and IBM employee Steve Lewis, the project will see thousands of engineers, scientists and technicians jet in to live in and work on the most energy efficient urban space in Europe, a sort of Portuguese Silicon Valley. “The purpose of PlanIT Valley is to house on a world scale the [...]

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