Are You Underinvesting In A Lifetime Opportunity?
July 9, 2010 – 4:57 am | No Comment

It is a common sight in Chinatown (both San Francisco and New York City) and it has always disturbed me.  It is the sight of old, Chinese ladies hauling big bags of plastic bottles and …

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Malls Go Unscripted!
January 14, 2012 – 5:51 pm | No Comment
Malls Go Unscripted!

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 …

Is Your Research In Danger?
June 25, 2011 – 1:39 am | No Comment
Is Your Research In Danger?

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 …

Levi’s Temporary Print Shop
July 19, 2010 – 6:49 am | No Comment
Levi’s Temporary Print Shop

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 …

Designing Around Seahorse Sexuality!
June 27, 2010 – 1:51 am | No Comment
Designing Around Seahorse Sexuality!

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 …

Innovation: Avoiding Nails and Finding Fertile Ground
January 29, 2010 – 12:26 am | No Comment
Innovation: Avoiding Nails and Finding Fertile Ground

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 …

Designing Touch: Creating Experiences the Blind and Seeing-Able Can Share
January 4, 2010 – 8:16 pm | No Comment
Designing Touch: Creating Experiences the Blind and Seeing-Able Can Share

 
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 …

Stroking Ego or Solving Problems?
October 29, 2009 – 7:17 am | No Comment
Stroking Ego or Solving Problems?

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 …

Thank You Ms. CoCo Chanel
October 10, 2009 – 3:10 am | No Comment
Thank You Ms. CoCo Chanel

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 …

Save The Tech Museum From Itself!
September 23, 2009 – 8:21 pm | 2 Comments
Save The Tech Museum From Itself!

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 …

Even The Simple is Exquisite
September 10, 2009 – 12:13 am | No Comment
Even The Simple is Exquisite

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! …