Archive for the ‘tools’ Category

RGD Ontario Webinar – Strategy in Design: How To Create Meaningful & Successful Designs

RGD Ontario Webinar – Strategy in Design: How To Create Meaningful & Successful Designs

In this webinar, it’s founder Mel Lim revealed how her studio and team create designs through strategies and methodologies that are unique to each of the brands and businesses they serve. Read more →

Inside Recruiting at Yeh IDeology: Career Development

Inside Recruiting at Yeh IDeology: Career Development

Our client Angela Yeh from Yeh IDeology recently did an interview podcast with Peter Clayton on a topic that I think will be useful to all designers + business peeps on how creative talents are driving business success.. Read more →

RGD Ontario Webinar – Bridging The Client/Designer Relationship

RGD Ontario Webinar – Bridging The Client/Designer Relationship

Designers often blame clients for not “understanding design” or not getting “us designers”. We blame them for being under-paid, under-valued, treating us like slave labour… Read more →

DMI Viewpoints: Bridging The Designer/Client Relationship. It’s Not Them. It’s Us.

DMI Viewpoints: Bridging The Designer/Client Relationship. It’s Not Them. It’s Us.

Many designers, including myself, have often blamed clients for not “understanding design” or not getting “us designers.” We blame them for everything, from under-paying, under-valuing, to treating us like third world labor. Read more →

DMI Rethinking Design Conference San Francisco – Recap

DMI Rethinking Design Conference San Francisco – Recap

This is my 3rd DMI conference. What can I say? I LOVE THEM!
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Do startups need VC funding?

Do startups need VC funding?

A couple weeks ago, Joe and I attended the local SD TechCrunch Meetup at Karl Straus in the Sorrento Valley Tech Center, organized by Vipul Bahety of Qualcomm. Read more →

CONNECT FrameWorks Workshop: Strategy in the 21st Century: Open Innovation, Business Model Design and Portfolio Agility

CONNECT FrameWorks Workshop: Strategy in the 21st Century: Open Innovation, Business Model Design and Portfolio Agility

Yesterday, I was excited to attend a workshop on strategy innovation. It’s because this workshop is NOT in my usual San Francisco area. Read more →

We can play and innovate!

Many times, people often think designers are too “crazy” or that we have no “focus” or we play too much. Or we are not serious enough for “business talk”. Watching this reminds me of why I love design + business and how I can still be me. Do some of these exercises from Tim Brown, IDEO. A corporate office does not have to be serious at all as innovation stems from a lot of play.
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Technology for Humanity

It’s been a while since we’ve posted some new discovery. We’ve been so caught up with the January events of ’09. First Joe and I had to finish up our 2009 new year resolutions, which turn out to be more like long to-do list than resolutions.
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