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The Politics Behind The New Winklevoss Bitcoin Fund ⚙ Co. The Winklevoss twins recently applied to the SEC to create a $20 million Exchange-traded Fund (ETF) backed by Bitcoin.

The Politics Behind The New Winklevoss Bitcoin Fund ⚙ Co

What is Design on scriptogr.am. John Maeda at TEDMED 2013. Design & Emotion : UK Chapter Launch. Invalid quantity.

Design & Emotion : UK Chapter Launch

The Reconstructionists. When asked, a good portion of people would admit in charmingly sheepish self-consciousness to have at one point believed that Ray Eames (December 15, 1912 – August 21, 1988) was a man.

The Reconstructionists

Welcome to Forbes. Katemural : Working overtime with Berlin... 4 Bizarre Design Solutions Inspired By Nature. Before we got here, nature was working pretty darn well, creating an efficient system where everything worked in harmony.

4 Bizarre Design Solutions Inspired By Nature

Can we learn from that? "Bridge" Design Residencies Will Offer Plum Jobs At Path, Pinterest, And Airbnb. Path, Dropbox, Pinterest, Airbnb.

"Bridge" Design Residencies Will Offer Plum Jobs At Path, Pinterest, And Airbnb

They’re some of the most high-profile startups in the world. And now through March 10, the Designer Fund is accepting applications for a new program called Bridge that will allow designers to take a whirl working there. Human-Centered Design Toolkit. For years, businesses have used human-centered design to develop innovative solutions.

Human-Centered Design Toolkit

Why not apply the same approach to overcome challenges in the nonprofit world? This project, funded by International Development Enterprise (IDE) as part of a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, sought to provide NGOs and social enterprises with the tools to do just that. IDEO, in collaboration with nonprofit groups ICRW and Heifer International, developed the HCD Toolkit to help international staff and volunteers understand a community’s needs in new ways, find innovative solutions to meet those needs, and deliver solutions with financial sustainability in mind. The HCD Toolkit was designed specifically for NGOs and social enterprises that work with impoverished communities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Communicating Design (Revised) Design process and how designers communicate their design decisions to others is kind of a obsession of mine.

Communicating Design (Revised)

I’ve been lucky enough to have been involved in just about every aspect of digital product design and I’ve seen the process from the eyes of a product manager, a designer, a coder, a creative director, etc. Design Thinking for Educators. 10 sites pour créer une infographie. Les infographies permettent de visualiser plus facilement un ensemble de données parfois complexe. Une image est parfois plus parlante qu’un long discours ! Elles permettent de comprendre en un coup d’œil les principaux enseignements d’une étude quantitative par exemple. Certains utilisent également ce type de visualisation pour présenter leurs compétences au sein d’un CV original. De nombreux services existent pour réaliser facilement une infographie : nous en avons sélectionné dix.

Réaliser une infographie en ligne Infogr.am Une référence, puisque l’outil a déjà permis de créer plus de 340 000 infographies ! Seven Trends in Social Change in 2012. As a founding director of the Solutions Journalism Network, a strategist for the new $1,000,000 TED Prize, and a journalist myself, it is my job to pay attention to the kinds of creative responses that people all over the world are pioneering to address some of the world’s most difficult problems.

Seven Trends in Social Change in 2012

How to design breakthrough inventions - 60 Minutes. One Design Thinking Tip You Can Use Right Now. Design thinking has its origins in the training and the professional practice of designers. Yet, these are principles that can be practiced by everyone and extended to every field of activity. If you’re ready to start designing your life here’s one design thinking tip from Change By Design you can use right now: Great to see the new @OpenIDEO University Toolkit that enables #opendesign to solve #edu & #highered challenges #design. Why your business card looks cheap. (hint: it's not just because you made it) Last week we delivered a quick n dirty ‘Business card teardown’ to our kinfolk in Inspire9. Our aim was to offer an informal critique session for the startups in i9 who had designed, or were thinking of designing their own business cards.

The cards, some nervously handed over, were a mix of DYO (Design Your Own) and professionally designed. Overall the standard was good. Design for Lasting Impact that Goes to Scale. Rainer Arnhold Fellows design iteration flow format (DIF) August 2011 Here is the primary tool the Rainer Arnhold Fellows Program uses to help people with a good idea design for maximum – meaning scalable - impact.

Design for Lasting Impact that Goes to Scale

This is a design tool to give you the best shot at real impact that will go to scale. The basic approach is this: identify exactly what impact you want, lay out what behavior must happen to get it, formulate the interventions that will drive the behavior, and organize the whole thing into a systematic impact model that can scale up. The result of the process– your model in the DIF – provides a vehicle for easier ongoing iteration and evolution of your idea and your model. Key to American Innovation? Incorporating Art and Design into Education. In the future technology will shatter the physical distance between continents, and create exponentially faster communication between people, companies, organizations, employees, and employers.

Key to American Innovation? Incorporating Art and Design into Education

We will have self-driving cars, and the advancements of 3D printing will make it possible for anyone to design and create physical objects. Our cell phones will be ambient technology—no longer requiring our attention, learning our behavioral patterns in the background, and politely serving up our next favorite lunch spot. Life will be good in the future. But here's the catch: innovation in the next 100 years could bring a hefty price tag for the United States, figuratively and literally, because much of it will probably happen outside U.S. borders. Consider that the cost of innovation in technology and software—which runs everything from your microwave, to the self driving car—is expensive and takes time. The Best Design Books of 2012. By Maria Popova From Marshall McLuhan to Frank Lloyd Wright, or what vintage type has to do with the evolution of iconic logos.

After the best science books and the best art books of 2012, the season’s best-of reading lists continue with 10 favorite design books published this year. Future of the Hospital: About the game. What if your phone could diagnose your health condition? What if your health and well-being needs could be met at your local Walgreens? The future of the hospital is uncertain. The traditional medical model—which places the hospital at the center—is ripe for change. Shifting patient expectations, shifting care delivery, new pathways for medical discovery, and the healthcare economy itself are just the first areas of major disruption. What if you could completely re-imagine the hospital for the health and wellness needs and opportunities of the 21st century, in just 24 hours?

The goal of Future of the Hospital. Design Council: What Is Design? WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM by Steven Johnson. What the #$%@ is UX Design? Reverse Innovation a Popular Trend. By Yann Cramer Thanks to a number of spectacular successes obtained by blue-chip companies in recent years, Reverse Innovation is becoming a popular trend. Examples include GE’s portable ultra-sound equipment designed in China and sold worldwide, LG’s low cost air conditioner designed in India and sold worldwide, Renault’s Logan low-cost model designed for Eastern European markets and now selling on Western Europe, etc.

In an enlightening article, Vijay Govindarajan outlines a historical perspective from globalisation to reverse innovation, and highlights the key driver behind this evolution: the revenue gap between developed and emerging markets. Why Design – Herman Miller. Dignifying Design. The Histories Of 11 Super Famous Logos, From Apple To Levi's. The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design.

By Maria Popova. If Design's No Longer the Killer Differentiator, What Is? The Elements of the Periodic Table, Personified as Illustrated Heroes. By Maria Popova. Lifework. Lifework. What True Love Has To Do With Great Innovation. The Giant of Design: Bill Moggridge. Bill Moggridge Passes Away at 69. Bill Moggridge, director of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museumsince 2010, died Sept. 8, following a battle with cancer.

Design Thinking’s Timely Death « The Multidisciplinarian. Katemural : Wall of possibility as health... The Role of "Ripeness" in Creativity and Discovery: Arthur Koestler's Seminal Insights, 1964. "I Draw Pictures All Day" Photo Highlights from MoMA’s Survey of 20th Century Design for Kids. Find Fonts. Social Creatives Social Creatives. Tools. User Interface Design Search Engine, UI Elements, GUI Design, Free Downloads. Top Design Boards on Pinterest - Blogs. Social Creatives Social Creatives. The Secret Life of Things Sustainability Animation. Designing for the Internet of Things. Human Rights MakerLab. Human Rights Makerlab DMY Festival Berlin. INFOGRAPHIC.

Knowable.org. Roominate: Make It Yours! by Maykah Inc. Videoprototyping. Back to the Futurist: Anab Jain. 6 Disasters Caused by Poorly Designed User Interfaces. User Experience And The Poison On The Tip Of The Arrow. IDEO.org. HCD Connect. Top 10 Must-See Design Destinations in The World. 12 astounding bus tickets from the 1930s. Project: Design Your Business Card - Design.

Creating visual haikus for stories: Chip Kidd at TED2012. How New York Pay Phones Became Guerrilla Libraries - Arts & Lifestyle. The Wicked Problem of Wicked Problems « Censemaking. Design Museum's aspirations for inspiration. Datavisualization.ch. Jonah Sachs at Compostmodern '11. Collaborative Fund. Hi, i'm francesca. 8.4. heapq — Heap queue algorithm — Python v2.7.2 documentation. The igraph library for complex network research. Kate Ettinger Twitter tweets related to: Field, Trips, Ideas, Life, Innovation and more.

100 logos in 100 days on the Behance Network.