Archives: March 2006

Intel Vs. The $100 Laptop For The Bottom of The Pyramid.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on March 30, Categories: ethnography

While there has been tons of coverage of the $100 laptop for rural Asian villages sponsored by famous Nicholas Negroponte, Intel is rolling out an alternative to that $100 PC...

Are the French Rebelling Against Risk-Taking And Innovation?

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on March 29, Categories: french innovation

I'm trying to make sense out of a million French--led by the country's best-educated students--taking to the streets, holding strikes and battling the police to protest against a law that...

Arup Joins IDEO with Cards for Innovation.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on March 22, Categories: Creativity

The Foresight & Innovation team at Arup, the fascinating engineering, planning, and designing collective out of Europe best known for the Sydney Opera House, has developed a 50 card deck...

Apple and the Cost of Innovation.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on March 21, Categories: apple design

If you haven't checked out Noise Between Stations, do it right away. It's one of my favorite blogs on innovation and design--a thoughtful aggregator and originator. Noise Between Stations has...

Apple's Jonathon Ive Speaks Out Publicly.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on March 20, Categories: apple design

The secretive senior vice president of design for Apple, "Jonnie" Ive will give a rare public presentation this week on why so many people have white headphones coming out of...

American Inventor

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on March 17, Categories: innovation

So I watched American Inventor last night and the beginning was so bad I actually switched over to the awful movie Gigli with Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck. The first...

Nike Design vs. Microsoft Design vs. Apple Design.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on March 16, Categories: nike design

I received this comment from Chas Martin on the video parody of Microsoft designing the packaging of the iPod and want to make sure everyone gets a look at what...

Wall Street Doesn't Get Apple or Innovation.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on March 16, Categories: apple design

So we have TheStreet.Com's senior writer wringing his hands over Apple because it is "holding the line" on spending on innovation and wondering if this frugality will hurt its amazing...

Microsoft Designs Ipod Packaging Video--It's Parody and in Parody, There is Truth.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on March 15, Categories: design humor

It's been buzzing around for weeks, creating laughter everywhere--the MS version of iPod packaging put out by the MS packaging group itself. I don't quite know where it leaked but...

The American Inventor Show--Is It Cheesy?

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on March 15, Categories: innovation

The ABC show, American Inventor, brought to us by the folks who gave us Idol, airs on Thursday and the gossip within the design and innovation crowd is that it...

India Vs. China in Innovation: The UN Weighs in.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on March 14, Categories: India vs. China in Innovation

The debate over India vs. China, who is most innovative, was addressed in the Wall Street Journal yesterday, March 13, in an article, "Low Costs, Plentiful Talent Make China a...

IBM Dives Into Innovation.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on March 14, Categories: ibm design

IBM is setting up an innovation web site as part of a new effort to expand its drive to transform itself into an innovation driver for global corporations. Hint: Check...

Nokia, LG, Octicon, Loggerhead Tools, CC Concepts, Fischer, Skanterm--Red Dot Design Winners.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on March 14, Categories: european design

The Red Dot design awards have just been announced and the winners are spectacular. Red Dot is not that well known in the US but winning a Red Dot has...

Google's Design.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on March 13, Categories: design strategy

It's difficult to find anyone willing to criticize Google's very welcoming user interface but Don Norman, one of the most brilliant design thinkers around, takes a pretty good whack at...

P&G's Open Source Innovation Revealed.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on March 09, Categories: innovation management

Procter & Gamble's Larry Huston and Nabil Sakkab show how P&G's open source model for innovation now generates 35% of the company's innovations and billions of dollars in top line...

An MBA's Views on the Core77 and Business Week Conference

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on March 08, Categories: innovation management

I really like seeing design through an MBA's eyes because it is always full of surprise. Check out this post from Rolf Mehneit at the Zollverein School of Management and...

Economics, Intangibles and Innovation.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on March 08, Categories: intangible innovation

Economics is discovering design. Heaven help us! There is an interesting post on Intangible Economy blog by Ken Jarboe about design as a competitive weapon. It is filled with facts....

Malcom Gladwell is Blogging.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on March 08, Categories: Creativity

Check out Gladwell's take on NBA Heuristics....

Happiness and Innovation Work for Google, Honda and Others.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on March 08, Categories: Creativity

There are insights and then there are blinding insights and IDEO's Diego Rodriquez has a truly brilliant insight in his column on the relationship between happiness and innovation. Diego builds...

The Core77 Design 2.0 Conference Rocked.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on March 01, Categories: design conferences

Google's Marissa Mayer, Method's Kevin Farnham. Peer Insight's Jeneanne Rae and futurist Andrew Zolli drew a standing-room only crowd in NYC of 200 plus to the Core 77 Design 2.0...