The Power of Design

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The Power of Design

Want to innovate? Want to forge lasting connections with customers? Want to outflank competitors? Want to grow? The creative and incisive folks featured in our second annual report on the Masters of Design have a lot to teach you.

Intelligent Design

You don't have to wear black and read pricey journals to get the latest insider thinking from the design world.

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/95/

Strategy by Design

In order to do a better job of developing, communicating, and pursuing a strategy, the head of Ideo says, you need to learn to think like a designer. Here's his five-point plan for how to make the leap.

Fast Take: Creating a Design-Centric Culture

Few people have had as much experience trying to inculcate design into a traditional corporate culture as Claudia Kotchka, P&G's VP for design innovation and strategy. Here are some of her lessons.

The Case for Design

Steelcase Inc. chief James P. Hackett on design as a competitive advantage, the collaborative shift, and coveting the life of a hotel-desk clerk.

Be the Next Jonathan Ive

Design recruiter RitaSue Siegel divulges what companies want in design executives (think Apple), why collaborative is the new cocky, and how the bottom line is as important as blueprints.

CEOs Toe-dip Into Design
What would Herman Miller do?

See Speak Up here:
http://www.underconsideration.com/speakup/archives/002423.html
AIGA National Conference Focused Session:
Who Will Lead Design In The 21st Century?

Business + Design
http://www.bplusd.org/index.php

ConglomerateBusiness, Law, Economics and Society
http://www.theconglomerate.org/2005/09/law_and_design.html

Danish DesignCentre
http://www.ddc.dk/DESIGNVIDEN/artikler/ord_designet_kamille_friis_learning_lab

New Skill Sets for Designers
http://connecta.typepad.com/cph127/2005/07/new_skillsets_f.html

AIGA Design Conference 2005
http://designconference.aiga.org/content.cfm?Alias=descriptions

Core77s Design Blog / Who Drives Design?
http://www.core77.com/corehome/2005/06/who-drives-design.html

Preparing the Next Gen
http://cbdd.typepad.com/colleen/

Thoughts on the Institute of Design Strategy Conference
By Peter Merholz of Adaptive Path.
http://www.peterme.com/archives/000507.html

Design Related Social InnovationDoors of Perception
http://doors8delhi.doorsofperception.com/links.html

Managing Design: An Oxymoron for the Ages?
IA Practice Management Knowledge CommunityA Preconvention Workshop
Presented at the AIA 2005 National Convention, Las VegasBy Amy M. Yurko, AIA
http://www.aia.org/nwsltr_pm.cfm?pagename=pm_a_20050722_convention

IDEO site
http://www.ideo.com/ideo.asp?nArc=1&m=8&y=4
Building Innovation Scenarios and Simulations
http://www.dmi.org/dmi/html/education/seminars/biss_outline.htm

Xblog
http://xplane.com/xblog/?cat=32

Managing As Designing Site
http://design.case.edu/sites.html

Info Design
http://www.informationdesign.org/archives/cat_interviews.php

Design Observer
http://www.designobserver.com/archives/000288.html

Global Brain Blog
http://wrede.interfacedesign.org/categories/education.html

Usability Works
http://usabilityworks.typepad.com/uwdotorg/2005/06/nextd_talks_wit.html

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interaction_design

Paths for Innovators
http://qviews.typepad.com/innopaths/

Design vs. Design Thinking
http://www.yayhooray.com/thread/56276/Design-vs-Design-thinking

d.notes/ Another Side of Design
http://designmichaelsurtees.blogspot.com/2005_03_01_designmichaelsurtees_archive.html

The Growth Experience Blog
http://www.growthexperience.com/Designingforgrowth.html

Collabor8Cross Cultural Collaborative Design Studies
http://www.ianmcarthur.net/COLLABOR8/content/links.html

Design-Management Blog
Everything about design, management and business issues around design
http://www.design-management.de/archive/2005/08/podcast-5/

Putting People First BlogExperience design, user experience and innovation
http://blog.vanderbeeken.com/2005/06/nextd__nextdesi.html

Eye2Eye BlogDiscussing multidisciplinary, cross-cultural design practice, innovation
http://aiffhead.blogspot.com/2005_07_17_aiffhead_archive.html

Functioning Form BlogContext, Consistency,Clarity, Control
http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?94

TransLearn at Hyperwerk
http://magnolia.hyperwerk.ch/home/translearn/Core-Meeting05.html

Forskning og uddannelse
http://www.arkade.dk/links/50/510/5110/?pager_offset=31

WorldChanging
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/002033.html

Archinect
http://archinect.com/links/detail.php?id=18423_0_26_0_M75

Sam Brodie Blog
http://www.brodieinc.com/iamsam/mdm.html

FreeGorifero Blog
http://www.freegorifero.com/weblog/2003_11_01_weblog_archive.html

Progressive Aspects of Design
http://progressiveaspects.blogspot.com/2005/06/design_16.html

Infonomia
http://www.infonomia.com/blog/index.asp?dia=29/04/05

Link Up Copenhagen
http://www.linkup-cph.dk/linked.asp?cat=5

Interaction Design
http://interaction-design.ask.dyndns.dk/

Perspectives on Design + Strategy
Points of View from the 2005 Institute of Design Strategy Conference
Chris Conley Josephine Green Larry Keeley Donald Norman GK VanPatter Patrick Whitney Institute of Design at IIT Chicago
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Design Planning Education and the Adaptive EconomyBy Hans Kasper Hugentobler, Human-Centered Innovation ConsultantPresented at the 6th International Conference of the European Academy of DesignUniversity of the ArtsBremen, Germany
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The Curious Case of Changing ManagementBy Naomi Gornick, Design Management ConsultantPresented at the 6th International Conference of the European Academy of DesignUniversity of the ArtsBremen, Germany
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Taking Care of Business: A Model for Raising Business Consciousness Among Design StudentsBy Uday Gajendar, Interaction Designer, Oracle Corporation
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Research Skills As a Basis For Industrial Collaboration In Design EducationBy Nicolas BeuckerFaculty of Art and DesignUniversity of Duisburg-EssenPresented at the International Engineering and Product Design Education Conference Delft, The Netherlands
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The Role of the Artifact in Participatory Design ResearchBy Birgitte Geert JensenAssistant Professor, Industrial DesignerAarhus School of ArchitectureAarhus, Denmark
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AskNextD
AskNextD is a new series in which questions submitted by journalists, post-graduate students, and design educators are addressed by the NextD team and shared with readers.

Design 1.0, 2.0, 3.0
Making Sense of Design NowIn August 2005, Mr. Sune Aagaard a writer at Kontrabande, a journalistic consultancy in Denmark submitted eight questions while researching and writing articles for INDEX on "how the methodology of design is affecting innovation processes in organizations".Mr. Sune's articles are scheduled to appear in a special edition of Monday Morning, (published in Copenhagen) about INDEX: and "The design agenda". The magazine is being designed by students from Art Center College of Design in California and will contain approximately ten articles.
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GK VanPatter: The Prepared Mind Podcast
Podcaster Christopher Gee of the Prepared Mind interviews GK Van Patter regarding how the NextD initiative got started, its continuing mission and the need for a new generation of design leadership skills.
http://www.thepreparedmind.com/pm/

GK. VanPatter: The InfoDesign interview
Peter J. Bogaards of InfoDesign interviews GK. VanPatter regarding business innovation, complexity overload and the value that a reinvented design brings to business transformation.
http://www.informationdesign.org/special/vanpatter_interview.php