“Yesterday’s graphic designers are today’s UX designers. Will tomorrow’s UX designers will be avatar programmers, fusionists, and artificial organ designers? Yes, according to the illustrious roster of design leaders we spoke with here. “Design has matured from a largely stylistic endeavor to a field tasked with solving thorny technological and social problems, an evolution that … [Read more…]
Forward thinking is more than a generic phrase. Lisa Bodell describes in Strategy + Business specific tactics to help companies capitalize on future trends. Source: Five Steps to Formalizing Forward Thinking in Your Organization
Good design succeeds without innovation, but innovation rarely succeeds without good designers. Universities don’t teach how to manage innovation projects. There’s no established best practices for an innovation project management track at PDMA. This might be why companies too often manage innovation projects the same way, and with the same people, as they do their renovation, … [Read more…]
“Bell Labs is a toolbox. Every day we ask ourselves: What do we want to build? And we can ask this knowing that what we build will have real world deployment through Alcatel-Lucent. Some people say the era of the big lab is over, but we don’t. The pressure is on Bell Labs to do … [Read more…]
Amazon’s new product innovation skunk-works, Lab126, will see a boost in funding and manpower over next five years. What can we expect to see from this company who is unafraid to be experimental and learn from their successes and failures. Source: Secretive Amazon Lab To Develop Wearables and Household Devices
Design is inextricably linked to innovation. Maybe you never thought about it this way, but designers touch and shape every single part of your day; they are a constant presence in your life. Source: Letter From the Editor: Why Design Matters More Now Than Ever Before | WIRED
We’re always scouring the world of products for the innovative, clever, and beautiful. Source: 21 Awesomely Well-Designed Products We’re Dying to Own | WIRED
Design Thinking is one of the more hyped (and frequently misunderstood) terms in business. Many companies have jumped on the Design Thinking bandwagon without really knowing what it means. Source: “Design Thinking” cartoon | Marketoonist | Tom Fishburne
MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has debuted a novel solution that allows users to create more complex items in a fraction of the time and cost by printing up to ten different materials simultaneously. Source: MIT’s newest 3D printer spouts 10 materials at a time
For successful innovation, you have to spread a culture of creativity throughout the organization. Creating a separate innovation lab doesn’t work. It’s just a trendy name for what used to be called the R&D group. We learned that didn’t work back in the 1970s and 1980s. Calling it an “innovation lab” doesn’t make any difference … [Read more…]