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2010/01/19

Worth a Look: Books on Design for Rest of World

Design Revolution: 100 Products That Empower People Featuring more than 100 contemporary design products and systems–safer baby bottles, a high-tech waterless washing machine, low-cost prosthetics for landmine victims, Braille-based Lego-style building blocks for blind children, wheelchairs for rugged conditions, sugarcane charcoal, universal composting systems, DIY soccer balls–that are as fascinating as they are revolutionary, this …

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2010/01/10

Worth a Look: Open Design

Open design is the development of physical products, machines and systems through use of publicly shared design information. The process is generally facilitated by the Internet and often performed without monetary compensation. The goals and philosophy are identical to open source, but reside in a different paradigm. Phi Beta Iota: The emergent Open Design community …

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2009/10/202011/10/22

Journal: Design Thinking for Government

What a great search phrase! Thank you. KEY POINT: Design is not just about physical structures, but about relationships as well as ideas. Will Durant has a great deal to say about this in Philosophy and the Social Problem. KEY POINT: Information is the means by which we harmonize understanding of the threats, sustainable consensus …

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2009/10/112009/10/11

Review: The Design of Business–Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage

In Its Niche Beyond a Six–In Larger Context a Four October 11, 2009 Roger Martin First off, what got me to buy this book does not appear in the book at all–the author on record as saying that Wall Street was not designed to make money for its investors, only for its mandarins–the same is …

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2009/10/012009/10/02

Journal: Systems Design & “Reverse Innovation”

We are fascinated to see Mort Zuckerman bidding against Bloomberg the company for Business Week. He spoke to OSS ’96 to great effect, and with Paul Strassmann has been one of our most dynamic speakers “jacked in” to the real world with real world bottom-line seriousness. We admire all parties concerned, along with TIME Magazine …

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2009/08/172011/10/22

Journal: It’s Time to Legalize Drugs and Re-Design the Entire National Strategy-Policy-Budget Process

It’s Time to Legalize Drugs By Peter Moskos and Stanford “Neill” Franklin The Washington Post, Monday, August 17, 2009 Undercover Baltimore police officer Dante Arthur was doing what he does well, arresting drug dealers, when he approached a group in January. What he didn’t know was that one of suspects knew from a previous arrest …

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2009/07/042009/10/24

Review: People and Organizations–Explorations of Human-Centered Design

Too Expensive, April 3, 2008