By Ralph Schneider, on August 30th, 2010
The value of a product is determined by a huge amount of factors like hard facts and soft facts or socio cultural, economical and technical factors. Its value itself cannot be described by cash alone but this is the part that lets you calculate a certain ROI. For consumer products these influence factors are . . . → Read More: Cultural value development for New Technologies
By Ralph Schneider, on Juli 26th, 2010
The variety of existing Creative/Culture Industry/Economy reports is already large but they are sometimes hard to find. So I would like to provide you with a collection of available reports.
Please add further reports if you like. I will add them to this article.
01: On March 2010 EU has release a report about . . . → Read More: Creative Industry Reports _ focus design
By Ralph Schneider, on Juni 17th, 2010
This is a very nice videocast of a panel discussion at Cooper-Hewitt brought on YouTube about doing the business called design. Innovation meets design and what is in it in between.
. . . → Read More: The value of design in innovation, panel discussion
By Ralph Schneider, on Juni 14th, 2010
On Frog Design I found a very interesting discussion about the future of design.
http://designmind.frogdesign.com/blog/the-end-of-an-era.html
Interesting because it talks about both sides. Design is everything or everything is design and design was and will be only one part of the orchestra. And this piece has also gone its way of commoditization as engineering and other professions.
Design Thinking was and still is a good thing to talk about but as coming from engineering, all sounds quite the same. With a bit different flavor and perspective of use though. So who is the owner of … SixSigma,Agile,DesignThinking, GoalOriented Design Process etc. ? Is that relevant? Or shall we just need to completely discuss on a different level and refocus our core of interest.
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By Ralph Schneider, on Juni 5th, 2010
The DIT (Dublin Institute of Technology) is presenting a humidity sensitive hologram. I think it is quite cool. It looks nice and interactive though.
See video on youtube here
Continue reading Smart Holograms