Articles in Mind to Hand
Malls have been a pretty sad place to be during the past year and a half with the economic downturn. Mall managers have tried vacancy signs, marketing store fronts for exhisting tenents, and some have …
When it comes to building a business or designing a product, talking with your customers (or users) is essential. do the research to know the needs, culture, and world they live in, and do some …
Lover’s of design, art, and old fashioned printing presses celebrate! And, come check out Levi’s temporary print workshop down on 826 Valencia, San Francisco. This shop is an amazing venue that allows local artists and …
Sometimes the challenge of communicating with a particular culture can turn out to be quite fun! Take this exhibition, design case study:
Culture: a conservative, Christian based society that is extremely sensitive to topics such as …
The dotcom guys got each other excited and created a bust. Banks verified moneymaking programs with other banks, but somehow, they went broke. These groups sought to solve problems and produce value, but the solutions …
It is so easy for people to take the way they see the world for granted.This fact is even more painfully obvious when the subject is sight and blindness.Human beings are so heavily sight-centric that …
After devouring the ready-to-use wisdom in Change By Design, I began to consider the number of industrial designers I’ve met. I asked: were they really implementing design thinking or just doing design? Sadly, most of them …
After browsing through the fashion website Deep Glamour and reading post after post about Coco Chanel, I experienced a sentiment that I do not usually associate with fashion: gratitude. So why be grateful when it comes …
Early in the winter of January 2009, I successfully sold my no-nonsense husband on spending a day at The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. We were both very excited; imagine it, a …
Sometimes good or extraordinary design is associated with something that is very complicated. But many times, a great amount of intelligence is needed to address simple tasks. Just take this cool bench as an example! …
