Counter-Intuitive Rules of Design
Kontra over at counternotions writes: There are many counterintuitive ‘rules’ in product design, these two are among the most intractable: • The more successful a product, the harder it’s to upgrade. •...
View ArticleOrthodoxies in the Hotel Industry
This is interesting. On the 5th of March, Marriott International launched their MOXY brand of hotels at the Berlin International Hotel Investment Forum (IHIF). It is their first entry into the economy...
View ArticleWhen You have the Technology for Disruptive Innovation, What Do You Do?
Chet Huber, former President and CEO of GM’s ONStar, shares that the technology for disruptive innovation is a dangerous thing as the “…technology business is seductively open-ended. It’s like, what do...
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Innovation Makes Existing Models Obsolete
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. – Buckminster Fuller It is not about making something bigger,...
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Design is the Spirit of Things
Image by Start-Up@Singapore. A few weekends ago, I gave seminar on Design Thinking to a number of entrepreneurs at the Start-up@Singapore competition. It was to help them acquire the skills as well as...
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Anthropology of Television
The following guest post is written by Maurice McGinley, a friend and former colleague at Philips Design. While some of the points might be a little outdated, this post showcases a methodology of...
View ArticleWhy Nobody can Copy Apple
Well…they could if they did this: I assert there’s something else that makes Apple is unique amongst its (asymmetric) competitors (e.g. Google, MS, Samsung): It only focuses on one customer: The...
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Silent Design is Design without Designers
I so love this term. Apparently it was created by Peter Gorb and Angela Dumas for a London Business School paper: “A great deal of design activity goes on in organizations which is not called design....
View ArticleThe Key to Creating a Great Killer Product
“The key for having a great killer product is to have incredible hardware, incredible software, and incredible services. And combine them in such away that you can tell what’s what anymore. It becomes...
View ArticleWhat is the Value of Design?
The British Design Council has found that every £1 spent on design gives you over £20 in increased revenue, £4 increased profit and £5 in increased exports. A very nice and handy statistic to be...
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Beyond Design : Explorations Towards a New Practice of Design
I thought you might like to know that I’ve been invited by my friends at the Shih Chien University Industrial Design Department to conduct a workshop to explore the future of the Design Practice and...
View ArticleNimble Design Firms should Do Good
So it seems that Frog’s Chief Creative Officer, Mark Rolston, has left to start Argo a “new type” of design firm that is a hybrid mix of design agency, incubator and product development group. With...
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Can we fall in love with our computers?
We don’t talk a lot about movies at Design Sojourn. Maybe we should? Renowned futurist Ray Kurzweil, also a Googler working on machine learning and voice processing, reviews the latest Spike Jonze...
View ArticleNo One Really Cares About Your Great Idea
I stumbled over a great Q&A over at Quora. Someone asked about what to do with their great ideas and inventions so that they won’t get cheated. I’ve decided to reproduce the question here and the...
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This is why Large Corporations need to INNOVATE or DIE
In the recent months two significant technological driven disruptive events have happen that could bring about the downfall of two of Singapore’s largest corporations. Singtel, or Singapore Telecoms,...
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Next to the Skin Technology Showcase: The Process
As you may know from our last post, we worked with ETPL (the technology transfer arm of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research in Singapore) to develop 10 wearable prototypes for the Next to...
View ArticleDisruptive and Incremental Innovation go Hand in Hand.
If you disrupt and can’t sustain, you don’t win. – Gary Pisano Gary Pisano, in his article: In Defense of Routine Innovation, argues that the world is so caught up with disruptive innovation that we...
View ArticleUsing Design to Build a Great Brand
Robert Brunner (the man more commonly known as the person who hired Jonathan Ives) has achieved something that I always hope to achieve with the clients I work with. He has helped a fledging company...
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Implementing Design Thinking 4: It is a Full Time Activity!
This happens all the time. After a game-changing workshop, where a whole host of innovative ideas underpinned by ethnographic research get plotted on an actionable plan, I call back a few months later...
View ArticleWhen is Design Led Innovation Not Right for You?
We always want the best for our clients, so one of our key business tenets is teach our client’s to fish. You know the old saying, “give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and...
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