User-generated future for gaming [BBC]
Roger Martin on designing decisions
In this interview, Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management (the University of Toronto’s business school) explains why managers need to learn how to think like designers, and why all design is really decision design. The interview was…
At museums: invasion of the podcasts [New York Times]
Designing politics – the politics of design
With a commitment to conducting a discourse on the social responsibility of the designer and defining the democratic quality of design, the International Design Forum (IFG) Ulm, Germany announces its public call for project proposals addressing the topic of the…
“Experience design is about the way a person experiences a brand”
Deloitte’s eye to the future
Yahoo! relaunches research site
Tech speak confuses everyday audience [Digital Web Magazine]
Major usability and accessibility initiative launched in the UK [BBC]
Firms turn R&D on its head, looking outside for ideas [Boston Globe]
Defeating feature fatigue [Harvard Business Review]
The aim of simplicity [Christian Science Monitor]
Thumb Culture: The Meaning of Mobile Phones for Society (Book)
Stanford conference ponders world with machines more powerful than their creators
When the new old are eternal youths
Rotman Magazine on the Creative Age
How to build a better product – study people [PC Magazine]
PC Magazine just published a long feature story on how anthropology is moving into the corporation. Product development has historically been predicated on a “build it and they will come” basis. But times are changing, consumer choice is increasing and…