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Design revelations from Shanghai [Business Week]
For the last 10 years, the state of mainstream design in China has approximated the first stage of design in the U.S., writes Patrick Whitney in a Business Week column. Consumers in the emerging mass market are gravitating toward products…
Intel launches Community PC for India
Intel Corporation just launched an innovative PC platform that has been developed exclusively to meet the needs of rural villages and communities in India. Designed as a result of defining locally relevant computing solutions based on Intel technology, the Intel-powered…
Daily Fix, a new MarketingProfs blog
Creativity and innovation development in business schools [Business Week]
Forbes special report on communicating
What you’ll wear in 10 years [Wired Magazine | Forbes]
Brick by brick: Lego’s new building blocks [Fast Company]
The art of spurring creativity [Wall Street Journal]
Creative communities: a bottom-up perspective on welfare and local development
African mobile phone subscribers hit 100 million mark [Mobile Africa]
The number of mobile telephone subscribers in Africa has risen from 8 million, five years ago, to 100 million, Kenya`s information and communication minister Mutahi Kagwe said Tuesday. He said one in every nine Africans subscribes today to a mobile…
Peter Morville presentation on ambient findabilility at SXSW
“The next big thing is us” or Time Magazine’s take on what’s next
Business Innovation Insider reports on the cover story in this week’s TIME Magazine which looks at cutting-edge developments in nearly every sphere of human endeavor, including politics, technology, sports, medicine and fashion: There’s one unifying theme here: “We are on…
Man versus machine in newsreader war [Wired News]
Going off the beaten path for new design ideas [The New York Times]
How the masses will innovate [Business Week]
Designing for Stanford’s d-school
Design for social justice
The role of ethnographic research in driving technology innovation – Lessons from Inside Asia
In a story in Pakistan’s Daily Times, Bill Siu (whom I presume to be an Intel Vice-President), shares some of the insights gained from Intel’s ethnographic research in Asia. The Inside Asia project team, led by Dr Genevieve Bell [which…
Wi-fi set to re-wire social rules [BBC]
Once the net becomes ubiquitous like power and water, it had the potential to be “transformative”. The divide that separates people from their online lives will utterly disappear. Instead of leaving behind all those net-based friends and activities when you…