Welcome to the Virtual Crash Course in Design Thinking Welcome to the d.school’s Virtual Crash Course resource page! We know not everyone can make a trip to the d.school to experience how we teach design thinking. So, we created this online version of one of our most frequently sought after learning tools. Using the video, handouts, and facilitation tips below, we will take you step by step through the process of hosting or participating in a 90 minute design challenge. If you choose to participate, in 90 minutes you will be taken through a full design cycle by participating in The Gift-Giving Project. Through this experience we hope you will take away some of the basic principles of Design Thinking and start to adapt them into your personal and professional routines. Below, you will find three sections: Gear Up!
Understand Innovation in 5 Minutes Pesquisa - Classe C Urbana do Brasil 10 Tendências de Consumo para 2013 – Trendwatching No ano passado, a gente falou aqui, um pouco sobre tendências e o trabalho de pesquisa dos coolhunters. Mostramos como as cores são escolhidas pelas empresas para inspirar a moda, design, decoração e produtos durante um ano todo. Fato que cada vez mais, essas informações previstas traduzem futuros comportamentos para marcas e consumidores. “Tudo começa com um trabalho de pesquisa baseado em dados bem concretos. No último Trend Briefing (documento gratuito mensal que é divulgado em 9 línguas e enviado para mais de 200.000 profissionais do mercado em mais de 180 países) recebemos as 10 TENDÊNCIAS DE CONSUMO CRUCIAIS PARA 2013 – que você confere agora através de um resumo e alguns exemplos: PRESUMERS/CUSTOWNERS são os caras que se envolvem com o lançamento de produtos antes mesmo de eles serem lançados, financiando-os ou até mesmo co-criando-os. EMERGING² é uma tendência de marcas emergentes atendendo desejos de classes médias emergentes do mundo todo. Nota como o mundo muda em um ano?
Why Jeff Bezos Is Our Greatest Living CEO The Harvard Business Review recently published its list of the 100 Best Performing CEOs. This list is better than most because it looks at long-term performance of the CEO during his or her time in the job – with many on the list in service more than a decade. #1 was Steve Jobs. #2 is Jeff Bezos – making him the greatest living CEO. It is startling just how well these two CEOs performed. Both of these CEOs achieved greatness by transforming an industry. The Amazon story is all the more remarkable because it has been written in the far more mundane world of retail – not known for being nearly as fast-changing at tech. Lest we forget, Amazon started as an on-line seller of books frequently unavailable at your local bookstore. But Amazon’s industry transformation has gone far beyond bookselling. As digital uses grew, Amazon moved beyond the slow-paced publishers to launch the Kindle and give us eReaders displacing paper books and periodicals. Just look at this last holiday season. Wait!