Design through or design around

by | Aug 19, 2013 | Post

Every Apple fan has fantasized at least once in this post-Jobs era: Why can’t Jonathan Ive, the creative guru, Jobs’ right-wing man and best friend, the greatest industrial designer alive, take the helm? But as of now, there is no hint of him aspiring beyond the...

Lost in Transition

by | Aug 18, 2013 | Post

Gone are the days of China as the greatest economic miracle. It still is the world’s leading manufacturing country, but it is no longer growing at a two-digit rate per year, and that worries many people.* * Honestly, what is broken isn’t China’s economy but the...

How > What

by | Aug 17, 2013 | Post

According to my experience, the most frustrating aspect of customer communication is not dealing with complaints or negotiating a better rate or as we all imagine, doing what is told to do. It is being told How to do. The definition of “customer” might not be...

Buildings we grow

by | Aug 15, 2013 | Post

How Buildings Learn, a BBC series hosted by Stewart Brand, highlights one of the biggest hidden questions regarding our house: Why do we have to adjust ourselves according to the place we live in? Citing numerous examples, Stewart Brand (the guy who was in charge of...

The wealth is here. It’s just not evenly distributed.

by | Aug 14, 2013 | Post

Here is a nice summary of the differences between the rich and the poor. You may track the linked original articles to doom your doomy Wednesday even doomier. One-third of upper-class Americans say they rarely experience stress, compared to 23 percent of middle-class...