Creative Process
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Innovative Interactivity (II) | Brainwriting – a new brainstorming tool for innovation
Regardless if you are brainstorming a new multimedia package, website, or mobile app, considerable time must be invested up front to do the necessary research before development begins.storytelling
Research has caught on "tape" the moment of insight that comes to us in a daydreaming state of mind.
"Aha" Moments Caught on Tape | Psychology Today
INNOVATION is today’s equivalent of the Holy Grail. Rich-world governments see it as a way of staving off stagnation.
Schumpeter: Think different | The Economist
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A remarkable story about Victorian platform innovation Radio is in flux. First-wave digital platforms are in danger of being eclipsed – even before they’ve achieved anything like full adoption.
Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity | Brain Pickings
In May, I had the pleasure of speaking at the wonderful Creative Mornings free lecture series masterminded by my studiomate Tina of Swiss Miss fame.
The Auteur Myth | Wired Science | Wired.com
Randall Stross recently wrote an interesting piece in the Times extolling the virtues of the Apple design process by comparing it to Google’s engineer driven approach. According to Stross, who riffs on a well known talk by John Gruber, the success of Apple is a tribute to the auteur model of design:
The Eight Pillars of Innovation | Think Quarterly by Google
The greatest innovations are the ones we take for granted, like light bulbs, refrigeration and penicillin. But in a world where the miraculous very quickly becomes common-place, how can a company, especially one as big as Google, maintain a spirit of innovation year after year?
Showcase of Impressive Design Process Explanations
A common feature amongst the top design portfolio and agency websites is a visually presented explanation of their design process.
Branch Holder for making stick-swords - Boing Boing
This is a cute design concept: a rubber sword-guard intended to be affixed to stray branches to make them more sword-like. I can't tell whether designer Naama Agassi has produced these, but they look like they'd be a fun DIY project to make out of cardboard or Sugru or some other material. Where not otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution.DJ Kool Herc: 'When I extended the break, people were ecstatic, because that was the best part of the record to dance to.' Considering the event is thought to be the birth of a globe-spanning, music-based culture almost half a century old, the ambitions that lay behind it were endearingly modest. Cindy Campbell just wanted to raise a bit of money before the new school term began to buy some clothes from boutiques on Delancey Street, 10 miles south on Manhattan's Lower East Side, rather than wear the same clothes as her classmates who'd be shopping nearer home.