January 2009
3 posts
Greg Holderfield gave a talk entitled “Habits of Successful Design Driven Companies” in a class of mine early this week. He offered important points about how to turn mediocre companies into successful design-minded companies. This included putting “design” on the meeting agenda for every meeting in every department, and having a designer on all project teams, having a formal Design Board that...
new to me but old to the world
The Kiss Communicator “The Kiss Communicator is an IDEO concept prototype that allows you to blow a kiss to your beloved when s/he’s at the other part of the world. To let a partner know that you are thinking of her or him, you squeeze the Communicator gently. It responds with a slight glow to invite you to blow into it and create your “message” in the form of an animated...
“Kids are notoriously tolerant of heavy backpacks, but they are also good at...”
– Bill Moggridge explaining how the first camera phone prototypes had an attached backpack (This is because the designers wanted to test the user interaction before they had figured out how to store all of the electronics in just a little phone. They needed more space for their early prototypes.) This...