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  • IQ. EQ. We Need CQ--Creativity Intelligence.


    		designBytes
    04.05.2010


    Understanding the Creative Quotient: In BusinessWeek, Bruce Nussbaum, H/IDSA writes of a multi-disciplinary team’s innovation process. “[T]hey observed and empathized with the local culture, collaborated among themselves and with their partners, brainstormed to generate new options, iterated a few and chose the best one.” From this classic tale he extracts lessons for understanding and developing the creativity quotient (CQ) of an organization. Which “design” group is he writing about? Go here to find out: http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/NussbaumOnDesign/archives/2010/03/what_is_your_cr.html.

     






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  • Seven Principles for Sustainable Interaction

    designBytes

    the electronic newsletter of the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA). Here's the latest design and design-related news we've collected from around the web.

    nteraction designers have been sitting on the sidelines for far too much of the sustainability movement. That’s what Valerie Casey, IDSA told a SXSW audience earlier this month. After her talk, many in the IxD community inquired about what they could do to transform their own systems thinking. Casey has answered by launching a conversation aimed at providing principles and action items for interaction designers to begin implementing as they check in to the sustainability game and spot up along the triple bottom line:






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    bio.22 contest The Biennial of Industrial Design is an international design exhibition that highlights current trends in contemporary design through its selection of well-designed products with an emphasis on quality, originality, innovation, and sustainability. Every two years since 1964, thousands of renowned designers, commissioners and producers from more than 50 counties from around the world have presented their best works at this acknowledged international design exhibition in Ljubljana , Slovenia . BIO has hosted many designers and design oriented companies like Naoto Fukusawa, Ron Arad, Ingo Maurer or Enzo Mari and Alessi, Vitra, Iittala, Ergonomidesign, Zanussi, Olivetti, Porsche Design Studio, Elektrolux, Zanotta, Gaggenau,…




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