The Designers Accord is a global coalition of designers, educators, and business leaders working together to create positive environmental and social impact. Adopters of the Designers Accord commit to five guidelines that provide collective and individual ways to integrate sustainability into design. The Designers Accord provides a participatory platform with online and offline manifestations so [...]
Lijiang Studio
Lijiang Studio is a place for farmers, scientists, artists, students, workers, professionals and amateurs to start processes of learning from real needs. Visitors to the studio are free to set up their own study groups, which other members with similar interests may join. In addition to these study initiatives the studio can offer a curriculum [...]
Corner Office – Tim Brown, IDEO Chief, Values Questions Above Answers
This interview with Tim Brown, the chief executive and president of IDEO, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. via Corner Office – Tim Brown, IDEO Chief, Values Questions Above Answers – Question – NYTimes.com.
The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase Profits
… in a free society… “there is one and only one social responsibility of business – to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.” via [...]
Book Review: Change by Design, A Fine Line and Design-Driven Innovation – WSJ.com
As much as Apple’s iPod has done for the music industry, it has done even more for the field of product design. The success of the iPod, with more than 220 million units sold, has vividly shown other companies the value that effective design can create—and, potentially, the value of design consultancies, such as IDEO [...]
Software for the Masses: The iPhone, Crowdsourcing, and Logistics :: Logistics Viewpoints
“Everything counts in large amounts.” These Depeche Mode lyrics popped into my head when I read the news from Apple that “more than two billion apps have been downloaded from its revolutionary App Store [and] there are now more than 85,000 apps available to the more than 50 million iPhone and iPod touch customers worldwide [...]