So, not a post in nearly two weeks. Things have been really busy. Over the past two years I have been developing and managing a business intervention programme here in Ireland to make companies more competitive through design. I’ve been working with some amazing people and am confident in saying we’ve produced some amazing results. [...]

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Was I the only one to spot the irony in this? CITY DESIGN COMPANY NETS AWARD FOR HELPING FIRMS TO CUT PAPER USE Graphic design company Alder and Alder has scooped the award for best environmental company in Devon at the first annual Federation of Small Businesses Awards. The firm launched a five-step leaflet called [...]

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Ultimately, we are deluding ourselves if we think that the products that we design are the “things” that we sell, rather than the individual, social and cultural experience that they engender, and the value and impact that they have. Design that ignores this is not worthy of the name. – Bill Buxton‘s personal mantra

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So, for the first time I am making a double post between the Design Innovation blog and Verticalbones. My assumption is that few of you actually use the sidebar links ->, so if I truly find some interesting things around design, I should probably post them here as well. It takes time to maintain three [...]

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I suppose I’m a geek at heart, or at the very least, I acknowledge my inner geek. I was programming BASIC on my Atari home computer shortly after I owned my first bike. I have suffered gadget envy. I lived with MIT students when going to school at BU in Boston. I would have quit [...]

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