Ideas, arguments and gadget fetish from the engineering desk. We honor the unheralded designers who love you, the end user — and we keep a running list of the ones who don't.
Ray Kurzweil postulated that innovation drives change at an exponential rate — and extended the idea to economics. What happens to employment when productivity outruns the ability of the consumption class to consume? A meditation on the curve we're all riding.
Read the digWe've been looking for you: the client with the impossible design challenge, the unlikely schedule and the improbable budget. Why the hardest briefs are the ones that make our engineers feel alive.
Read the digThe great thing about great design is the Zen-like 'being without being' you feel when something just works. The great thing about bad design is we get to make a list. Herewith: our ongoing catalog of designs that make you scream at the inanimate.
Read the digCustomers don't want a quarter-inch drill; they want a quarter-inch hole. How Job Mapping and Consumer Mined™ get us past Voice-of-Customer theater to the outcome people are actually paying for.
Read the digWhat ethical responsibilities do corporations carry in the burgeoning Open Innovation movement? Notes toward a healthier relationship between the engineering community and the clients who depend on it.
Read the digOur company was founded on a stubborn belief: superior documentation is the key to product-development excellence. A look at the methodology our clients adopt as their own.
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