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“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.”
Charles Mingus
“Technology is a big destroyer of emotion and truth. Technology doesn’t do anything for creativity. Yeah it makes things easier, you can get home sooner, but it doesn’t make you a more creative person. That’s the disease you have to fight in any creative field: ease of use.”
An inside look at how the Michelin guide reviews restaurants. Good thing I’m reading after dinner!
French designer Mathieu Lehanneur’s lecture talks about the influence of science and scientists on his design process.
My favourite thought? That marketing’s underlying focus on simplification stops us from fully understanding the subtle complexities of human needs, whereas scientific thought aims to expose and understand connections amongst convergent behaviours.
Evian Roller Babies international version (via EvianBabies)
Design Synthesis - http://www.slideshare.net/frogdesign/design-synthesis
Innovation vs. Social Innovation: a competitive end-game vs. a collaborative end-game
What are the aims of socially-driven innovation?
Honda - Failure: The Secret to Success
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Part Three
Inside Ideo - Designing the Shopping Cart
What is design strategy?
Blitzen Trapper - Furr. I just can’t get enough ;)
“Rather than focusing on social media shouldn’t we be focusing on social ideas? Let’s stop obsessing about social media and worry instead about what’s important. While social media channels fade in and out of social significance, social ideas are timeless in their power.
It means ideas that are inherently open, generous and want to include you. It means developing communication that lets you join the dots and complete the story rather than telling you what to do (in the same way at every point of contact). It means thinking about what it is that people like to do and working back from there to figure out what it is we can do as a brand to be useful, helpful or entertaining rather than starting from what we think first.
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Dan Barber’s fabulous TED talk on Spanish farmer Edouardo Sousa’s sustainability practices surrounding foie gras.
In both advertising and experience design: we’re in the business of influencing behaviour (and beliefs).
