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The Top Political Surprises of 2015

January 02, 2016

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Fairy tales and pop culture as inspiration for design innovation

In this podcast episode, David Rose , an instructor at MIT’s Media Lab and CEO at Ditto Labs, sits down with Mary Treseler , O’Reilly’s director of strategic content for our design space. In the interview, Rose defines his mission: “to make technology more elegant, more embedded, and hopefully, more humane.” Technology itself isn’t what drives Rose — he’s looking for inspiration in places that have captured and fueled our imaginations for centuries: “I’m trying to be very, sort of, fairy-tale driven rather than tech driven. In the book [ Enchanted Objects ], I go back to some of the patterns that are revealed through Hans Christian Andersen or the Brothers Grimm or other pop culture, like spy culture or Harry Potter or Frodo, and I try to think about what those technologies are or how those services are transferable from one person to another. “Super powers like Superman’s ability to fly don’t count because he can’t give that to anyone else, but if it’s boots that allow you to wa...

College 3 by 5: Programs in Product Design

University programs in Product Design – also referred to as Industrial Design – train students to become professionals who bring ideas to life. Industrial designers are part artist, part entrepreneur and part engineer, trained in multidisciplinary programs where students design products that benefit consumers, industry, and business; create designs for medical and computer applications, transportation and environmental projects. The iPod, the Volkswagen Beetle, the Eames Lounge Chair, the slinky dog, the Electrolux vacuum cleaner. All of these iconic designs were once just ideas being tossed around in design incubators. Here are five undergraduate programs for future Product Design professionals: Arizona State University , Tempe, AZ The goal of ASU’s Integrated Innovation curriculum for Industrial Design students is to produce design solutions that have value in the marketplace, meet consumer need, and benefit society and the environment. Senior-level students may col...

conceptual thinking leads to innovation

In thinking conceptual thinking is problem solving or thinking based on the cognitive process of abstraction and conceptualization -is a process of independent analysis in the creative search for new ideas or solutions, which takes as its starting point that none of the accepted constraints of “today’s reality” need necessarily to apply to or to shape the future. Thus it does not accept received wisdom, the status quo nor inertia as necessary determinants of every bit of the future. Conceptual thinking can be a valuable analytic or problem solving tool in any field; for instance, Environment Canada in a note on “competencies meteorologists” defines it as follows: Conceptual thinking is the ability to understand a situation or problem by identifying patterns or connections, and addressing key underlying issues. Conceptual thinking includes the integration of issues and factors into a conceptual framework. It involves using past profe...

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