Vol. 2: design-management.de

Mark Vanderbeeken over at Experientia/Turin, Italy pointed me to an interesting article about School 2.0. Even thought the article is written in French (and I have to admit that my skills in talking /reading French have unfortunately decreased considerably over the last couple of years ;-( it attracted my attention since over the last couple […]

TED | Talks | Paola Antonelli: Treating design as art (video)
Personally I do find it difficult and riskful to discuss design next to art as the two fulfill different purposes. Design is aiming deliberately to address and solve everyday (user) problems while art in itself is free of any restraints.
(tags: art conference design TED Antonelli […]

In the light of my latest delicious bookmark posting today Core77 attracted my attention by pointing to a current online article in International Herald Tribune. Among others it sheds some closer light on Paola Antonelli’s view on design’s relationship with science and technology.
At the recent World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, CH “… Alice Rawsthorn, […]

oobject » items to build an (home) apple store
If you’ve fallen in love with Apple as it happened to me with my MacBook Pro recently you might be interested in the the range of suppliers of the furniture and decoration assetts in the original Apple store. Needless to mention that several German compan
(tags: apple_computer design […]

Hugh Dubberly: Toward a Model of Innovation
Interesting Description of the conceptual and visual development process of a model on the nature of innovation. From my perspective visualisation skills for managers (and designers) will become more and more important in the future.
(tags: design innovation model Dubberly process)

For the German speaking readers of this blog I’ve found a quite nice yet critical review on Heise Online of the Digital Life Design 08 Conference I’ve blogged about earlier on Monday this week. For the rest of us Jeff Jarvis has posted his impressions and musings on his blog as well.

A great piece perfectly describing my very own journeys between academia and practice and written in a well articulated format has been published now by frog design consultant Jon Kolko over at Core77. Well, this has been exactly the kind of piece I would have wanted to be written by myself for a while … […]

Today is day one of a phenomenon which stock market analysts call a ‘crash’! - However it’s also the time of the year where the caravan of business leaders are heading for the World Economic Forum in Davos, CH (23-27 January, 2008) after making a stop at DLD08 in Munich last weekend (smart choice by […]

In the course of a current client project my interest in ‘empathic design‘ research tools has been triggered recently. Amongst others I’ve also come across personas as a tool to ‘uncover’ possible dimensions of a set of archetypical attributes of (possible) customers.
Therefore with great interest I’m watching the current conversation between blog/web veterans Steve Portigal […]

Scientific Web Design: 23 Actionable Lessons from Eye-Tracking Studies
A concise and at some points quite surprising summary of key findings from Eye-Tracking studies. Especially typo focused readers amongst you will find some interesting insights e.g. “Text attracts attention before graphics”.
(tags: usability webdesign eyetracking design research tips)