Category Innovation
Design intervention at Philips [Fast Company]
A look at Mau’s Massive Change [Business Week]
“What do a featherless chicken, Wal-Mart’s (WMT) logistics system, and an economic theory on homeownership have in common? To Bruce Mau, they all demonstrate the power of design-oriented thinking in the innovation process,” writes Robert Berner in Business Week. “These…
Yahoo! teams with Current TV on viewer created content [Techcrunch]
Philips unveils innovative Lifestyle Home prototype
ZIBA Design’s search for the soul of the Chinese consumer
Belgian experience design lab getting off the ground
One of the exciting initiaves within the Belgian C-Mine project is a new Experience Design Lab within the Media & Design Academy, a platform with the double function of integrating and transforming the various disciplines of the academy, and enabling…
Living Labs Europe – user-driven innovation environments in the information society
A Living Lab is a city area which operates a full-scale urban laboratory and proving ground for inventing, prototyping and marketing new mobile technology applications. A Living Lab includes interactive testing, but is managed as an innovation environment well beyond…
Library 2.0 [Library Journal]
EU working towards eco-innovation for a sustainable future
ThinkCycle: open collaborative design
ThinkCycle is an academic, non-profit initiative, developed and operated by a group of doctoral students at the MIT Media Laboratory, engaged in supporting distributed collaboration towards design challenges among underserved communities and the environment. ThinkCycle seeks to create a culture…
Microsoft designs the school of the future [CNN]
Consumer Idealised Design: involving consumers in the product development process
Veni, Vidi, Wiki [Wired News]
MEDX: Microsoft’s Mobile and Embedded Devices Experience design center [Seattle Post Intelligencer]
A new report on service innovation
In wiki, everyone helps, but where’s the profit? [International Herald Tribune]
Ars Electronica on simplicity
Too Much Information, an IBM research project [ACM Queue]
Berners-Lee calls for Web 2.0 calm [The Register]
Five years after the first internet bubble burst, we’re now witnessing the backlash against Web 2.0 and a plethora of me-too business plans, marketing pitches and analyst reports exploiting the nebulous phrase. Tim Berners-Lee, the individual credited with inventing the…