Since I moved to Sydney, I have experienced a state of mind that most designers who become freelancers or decide to go at it on their own as an entrepreneur would. This state of mind is the loss of interaction with other designers.
Called “Beautifully useless” by the New York Times, the Buddha Machine is an interesting yet simple product, which reminds us of a less complicated time by defying the current convention of sleek. It just snubs the Cult of Mac by giving the bird to everything
The Strategy Paradox is an interesting book written by Michael Raynor on why certain strategies adopted by certain companies are successful and why some are not. Interesting simply because it directly reflects what I am facing in my industry. However the replies he
When ever we work on our designs we often come to a point in the development cycle when we invariably ask ourselves, will our designs sell? Will it appeal to our target marker or users? And very often, we ask will it be a
Here at Design Sojourn I like to explore the extent of the Web 2.0 and its impact on industrial design. These days we are starting to see many products positioned as windows to such Web 2.0 environments. For example Nokia N-Series multimedia phones
Phew! I’m almost done with my spring cleaning, and believe you me it does not look like much, but it’s a lot of stuff. Here is what I did
Designed by Joseph Graceffa, a designer from IDEO, this is a concept music Hi-Fi system has been doing the rounds on the internet. Apparently it has been posted on 14 blogs world wide. I supposed this blog will be number 15? After studying it,
Something that has always been a career hazard for a designer is being out in front, absorbing information, and then synthesizing to predict what the next big consumer trends are. Trendwatching.com is a great site that does a lot of this data gathering work for you
It always nice as a designer working in industry to catch up with designers in academia. I always come away with an "academic shower" feeling refresh and inspired. Especially when it comes to innovations like dirt repelling paint and ergonomic chairs and my
One thing I have noticed about software companies, something that hardware companies figured out years ago, was they could not design or do everything. In April 1999 Flextronics announced that it would purchase a second manufacturing facility from Ericsson. Perhaps not the best example here,
A few years ago I was involved in design mentoring junior high school or lower secondary school students in the pilot run of the Many Ways of Seeing Project (MWOS). Based on the work by Nelson Goodman, and a few others, this design project was developed
We take a short break from design blogging today to dive into some extreme geek blogging. Apparently you can buy a Windows Vista upgrade for your Windows XP, COOL! But in typical Microsoft manner they actually literally put the upgrade OVER your existing