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design teaching

Paper folding exercise

February 4, 20091 min read

1. Do something with paper to make it stand.  2. Make four more of them, doing different.  3. Choose the "best" one from the five

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design, teaching
design writing

managing in a clumsy world, designing a better one

December 4, 20087 min read

Management is a noble profession. Or at least, it should strive to be one. The sad reality is that, however, we don’t think of it

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design, writing
design

the power of theory in the construction of the world and the responsibility that comes with it

December 2, 20084 min read

The last Friday was supposed to be a “Black Friday”. And, yesterday was “Cyber Monday” . Black Friday means that this is the day when

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design, digital innovation, digital innovation
design

Roger Martin on Design Thinking

November 9, 20081 min read

This is a video clip from an interview with Roger Martin, Dean of Rotman School. His reaction to the question about the current financial trouble

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design
design

Amazon’s Frustration-Free Wrap

November 4, 20081 min read

Amazon's video clip on  frustration free wrap is a great example of design thinking. I wish they would make it easy to embed the video

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design
design

importance of making stuff

October 16, 20082 min read

On Tuesday, I attended the 11th Innovation Idea Award Reception. The highlight of the event was the keynote talk by Chris Martin, the CEO of

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design, digital innovation
design teaching

another video clip from the students

June 20, 20081 min read

This is the second video clip from the students who went to the design study tour. And, here’s a comment from one of the students:

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design, Fox School, study tour, teaching, video
design

organizations as prototypes

May 17, 20082 min read

Yesterday afternoon, I visited Stanford d.School. I briefly spoke with Liz Gerber who's joining Northwestern this fall. It was exciting to talk to people who

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d.school, design
design

idea and curiosity

May 16, 20081 min read

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design, digital innovation
design

Don’t hang your coat on that spring-cooler

May 12, 20081 min read

This one is from the Renaissance Hotel in Cleveland. Apparently, a lot of people must have tried to hang their coat on this and broke

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design, hotel
design

iPod in Starbucks

May 9, 20081 min read

Few weeks ago, I was in New York City and sitting at a Starbucks store. There was a music played and I had my iPod

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design
design

Cubic House (Kubiswoning), Rotterdam

May 6, 20081 min read

(taken from cube houses) One of my students wrote about houses that he saw while he was in Netherlands. According to Wikipedia, the houses were

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architecture, design

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