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How to Crowdsource Your Research and Development. Brazil's most popular automaker, Fiat, sought a design for its 2009 concept vehicle, the Fiat Mio. Rather than turning inward to its core team of designers and engineers to come up with the new look, the company turned outward­—and let the world decide how the car would look, feel, and drive.

By crowdsourcing the design of the car through its website, fueled by a viral marketing campaign, the Fiat Mio became the world's first fully-crowdsourced vehicle, debuting at the Sao Paulo International Automobile Show to rave reviews. All in all, the car's design took into account some 10,000 suggestions from people in more than 160 countries. "A good designer tries to realize the wishes of everyone, and with this concept car we were truly working on everybody's behalf," said Peter Fassbender, manager of Fiat's design center, Centro Estilo, in a release. "The group of designers working in the Fiat Mio house were totally open. First, Define Your Use of the "Crowd"

Generative Human Imagery: From a Branding Project to an Elegant, Custom Tool. The Tech Virtual | Your Online Museum Design Community. Cartographier les connaissances scientifiques. Les techniques cartographiques peuvent s’appliquer à toutes les disciplines scientifiques, notamment en biologie où elle servent entre autres à décrire les réseaux trophiques (plus connus sous le nom réducteur de « chaînes alimentaires ») ainsi que des réseaux complexes d’interactions entre molécules. Je m’intéresserai aujourd’hui à leur application à l’épistémologie, c’est à dire l’étude de ce que sont les connaissances humaines. Les techniques cartographiques peuvent en effet décrire l’état des connaissances scientifiques ainsi que la dynamique de la recherche. Après un historique rapide des cartes des sciences et quelques exemples récents, j’évoquerai les usages et applications de celles-ci.

Une brève histoire de l’organisation des connaissances Illustration 1. « Système figuré des connoissances humaines » Cette classification vieille de deux siècles et demi semble aujourd’hui quelque peu désuète. Illustration 2. Les premières cartes des sciences Illustration 3. Illustration 4. Notes. How Two Uni Friends Started DesignCrowd & Built a Multi-Million Dollar Business - TNW Australia. DesignCrowd is a design crowdsourcing service — a site where buyers can list a job for a logo, web design or other visual end product and receive a number of options from designers around the world. When the buyer decides which of the entrants has provided the best solution, that designer gets paid out and the design becomes the property of the buyer. DesignCrowd and services like it are an excellent way for people and businesses on a shoestring budget to get their design needs met.

Bootstrapped startups, for instance, love sites like DesignCrowd. In fact, funded startups do too: when 99designs received $35 million in funding last month, they revealed that most investors had heard about them when other startups in the capitalists’ portfolios used the service to obtain an inexpensive logo. The Founding of Design Crowd DesignCrowd was founded by Alec Lynch and Adam Arbolino, a team comprised of business mastermind and programming wizard. Growing Pains The launch wasn’t all roses, though.

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Polices à télécharger. iPad Peek. Welcome to Ember! The best way to share your design inspiration! BOOOOOOOM! - CREATE * INSPIRE * COMMUNITY * ART * DESIGN * MUSIC * FILM * PHOTO * PROJECTS.