June 3rd, 2007 by mdSeveral students in Creating Infectious Action (MSE288) at Stanford came up with a very cool way to explain design thinking to others by executing, and documenting by video, a rapid design process. The four students, Mada, Ana, Dot, and Mannan are masters students in the class which I co-teach. They captured a totally authentic look […]
May 19th, 2007 by mdMy colleagues Bob, Perry, and I went for a week to the Higher College of Technology in UAE to teach a short seminar on Innovation and Product Design to a group of students and executives. It was a long, but really fun trip. The students were about 80% nationals, the remainder from elsewhere in the […]
March 30th, 2007 by mdFull disclosure, I had to censor some of the content regarding the trip. Here are some of the things I left out in the form of a partial list of posts that didn’t make it:
Three things you don’t do at the Leper Colony on Molokai
What the labels on the toilets said never to flush
A picture […]
March 24th, 2007 by mdThis is one of the coolest things I have seen in a while. A friend recently told me about this as a way to gather feedback quickly and economically from real people.
Mechanical turk.
This platform allows a researcher (say a company, a product designer, an academic, even a computer etc.) to post a question or task […]
January 22nd, 2007 by mdSomeone recently asked me to describe some of the broad themes / opportunities in consumer technology, specifically online. As I thought about it, four buckets came to mind — three verticals and one horizontal point.
Commerce. Household penetration of the Internet has reached mass market levels and is holding steady in the high-70s or low-80s percent […]
September 9th, 2006 by mdI read yesterday that Stanford’s service employees union approved the new proposed contract by 95% Yes vote. Does it strike anyone else — no pun intended — that the University cleared the bar by a little too much? If I were the union, I would not have released the voting figures. It weakens their position […]
Category : Work September 9th, 2006 by mdI recently read a positive review of a book called Severance by Pulitzer Prize winner, Robert Owen Butler. The book is a collection of very short stories in the voice of famous and not so famous people who have been decapitated. An interesting subject.
When I was in 10th grade, I wrote an essay about the […]
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