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 that you just made. 4. Make it better. 5. Look at your last model and think of ways to improve it further. Here are some additional pictures taken from my … Read more
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: “It was the most worthwhile course I’ve taken as a student, not only in the MBA program, but also in all my years in academia. The Design Tour was a … Read more
This is a video clip that students from the design tour class made about the tour. Pretty cool!
Today was the last day of the trip. We had two visits in one location. It starts with a presentation by Luke Ogrydziak, an architect in SF area. He talked about the impact of digital tools on the way he approaches to the design problem using two projects, about 10 years apart. He mentioned how … Read more
The day began with a long line at Starbucks. I don't know why there were so many people there this morning. The first stop was Stanford d.school. Charlotte Burgess-Auburn gave us a tour. I was most interested in how their teaching model works with the projects and the way these projects were funded. It was … Read more
Today, we visited SAP Design Services Team. We start the day by me giving a talk on my work on organization designing. The talk was a bit rough as I had to deal with audience in Germany and the session started about 30 minutes later than scheduled. At any rate, I hope I conveyed the … Read more
The good staff members at Hotel Diva made sure all the needs were taken care of. 
We started with students making brief summary statements on the project that they’ve been working on. … I will write more about their work and presentation tomorrow. 
At 11AM, we had a session with Matt Mullenweb , the founding programmer of WordPress and the founder of Automattic.
Yesterday, I finished my visits to Gehry Partners, Randall Staut Architects and Grant Architecture — all in LA. They were very rewarding visits. Today, I spend sometime at DeSimone Engineering who collaborate with Gehry and Staut. Now, the first part of the trip is over. I am now waiting for the Design Study Tour to … Read more
A group of students in my class, Design and Innovation, began team blogging. They use it for their data collection and also sharing their reflections. I am very glad that they began doing it.
From May 19-22, I am taking 18 Fox MBA students to San Francisco area to visit a number of design studios. It is a part of a new course that called, Design & Innovation.
This semester, I am teaching a new course. It is the first time I am teaching undergraduate students since I did a SAGES class few years ago at Case. Working with undergraduate students will be fun as they will bring a lot of energy to the class, I hope. Students will be working on three … Read more
My students and I started constructing some buildings on our island. We built open-air classroom and an office. They got rug, a bookcase, desk and chairs for the office. They even hung a sign that says, “Future office of Youngjin Yoo”. The classroom is still under construction. But we have enough chairs to have students … Read more