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guidePOD - Helping to lead blind or vision impaired people around obstacles.

The guidePOD is a module which can be worn on the arms, legs, chest, waist, head and walking sticks, to help lead blind or vision impaired people around obstacles. The basic components of the guidePOD are as follows Ultrasonic Sensor Micro-controller Power Supply (Battery) Alarming device System Mounting Box slots for mounting bands Arm, leg, waist, head or stick band iPOD docking station is an option These are all off the shelf items which we can purchase from hobby electronic… Continue

Added by Daniel Christadoss on December 5, 2009 at 7:02am — No Comments

gemPOD - Universal Generator Motor Module for the pemmPOD

Detailing the dream on the gemPOD The gemPOD is the Prime Mover module for the pemmPOD a.k.a Personal Emotional Mobile The basic building blocks of the gemPOD is the single wheel mounted to a tubular stub axle with an integral universal interface for power, communications and TTL. This gemPOD attaches to the chassis and docks to the pemmPOD chassis. The gemPOD serves as a motor as well as a generator. So, it can be attached to a chassis in one, two, three or four wheel… Continue

Added by Daniel Christadoss on December 3, 2009 at 3:12am — No Comments

Personal Emotional Mobile Module - Chris Bangle - Singapore

I have been playing with a concept for creating a modular mobile clubbing an office desk, laptop computer, iPOD and a personal customizable mobile which is locally manufacturable with renewable material. This is part of the overall dream of creating a self sustaining city The articles are in http://dancrissco.wordpress.com/ It is a work in progress and now I am working on the digital prototyping phase Professionally I am what you call a factory auto… Continue

Added by Daniel Christadoss on November 27, 2009 at 1:23pm — No Comments

What a Shame "Samsung Launches Open Mobile Platform"

As one of the leading companies in the mobile phone industry Samsung has an amazing change to do something extraordinary. Something we can all profit from. So they launch the new platform Samsung Bada. http://tinyurl.com/yjdpku8 A new platform that tries to divide and conquer. Interesting enough the words they use to sell it are words that show they know what they should be doing. "In order to build a rich smartphone experience accessible to a wider ran… Continue

Added by Arne van Oosterom on November 12, 2009 at 12:00pm — 3 Comments

If we stopped discussing, we stopped caring

This post is a reaction to the discussion we had on Twitter about the Service Design Network and the location of the conference in 2010. And the discussion that continued on this forum set up by Joel Bailey: http://servicedesigners.uservoice.com/pages/32825-servicedesigners I suggested we should be in London, because we should go to the UK and London seems a logical choice. But, so it I learned, Cornwall already h… Continue

Added by Arne van Oosterom on November 5, 2009 at 10:00am — 15 Comments

Updates: The Power of 8, Superflux, TEDIndia

I'd like to point you to the Power of 8 project site, where we have now documented the process and outcomes, which formed part of the London Design Festival. We are now developing some of the ideas further, through new commissions and collaborations. Any suggestions will be appreciated. Also I am off to TEDIndia as a… Continue

Added by Anab Jain on October 31, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

Co-Creation Sucks!

Cocreation Sucks!

"Presentation done by Asier Perez, director of Funky Projects, at Service Design Conference 09 in Madeira 2009 Oct 26. This presentation challenges the belief that a co-created project is brill… Continue

Added by Arne van Oosterom on October 28, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

David Kelley Bootcamp Fireside Chat

David Kelley dropped by Bootcamp to talk with students about the d.school and how design thinking can change the world.

Bootcamp Fireside Chat from Caroline O'Connor on Vimeo.

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Added by Arne van Oosterom on September 30, 2009 at 12:54pm — No Comments

MIT's Next Lab

I'm sharing a post from my blog: http://ayanabaltrip.wordpress.com I inadvertently stumbled upon MIT’s Next Lab project’s web site as I was trying to correct an incorrect link a friend sent. What an interesting project. Their mission partly states: “. . . believing that the global dissemination of knowledge will rapidly bring well-being to those who need it most. . .The Next Lab project challenges MIT students to address some of t… Continue

Added by ayana baltrip balagas on September 17, 2009 at 2:45am — No Comments

Europark - The perfect parking

"The Swedish service design agency Transformator was asked by Europark to create a vision of the prefect parking. Based on in-depth consumer insights Transformator created this animation to show what parking with the users needs in focus could be like."

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Added by Arne van Oosterom on September 16, 2009 at 5:09pm — No Comments

Big In Kuopio!

Lauren Currie, Marc Stickdorn, Fergus Bisset, Arne van Oosterom and Renato Troncon caught off-guard during the Experience Service Design conference Finland 2009… Tell me: What is your personal Service Design one-liner?

Big In Kuopio (Experience Service Design FInland) from DesignThinkers on Vimeo.

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Added by Arne van Oosterom on September 13, 2009 at 6:19pm — 3 Comments

"Designing an Extraordinary Life" - Corey Ford - Keynote Speech

"Corey Ford's (Fellow & Lecturer Stanford d.school) tells the story of how the adventures of the Morehead Scholarship diverted him from a narrow, linear path to unexpected, extraordinary opportunities - from National Geographic, to the San Francisco Giants, to PBS FRONTLINE, to Stanford Business School, to the Stanford d.school. Just like designing an extraordinary product requires a non-linear series of flaring and focusing, so does designing an extraordinary life."

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Added by Arne van Oosterom on September 13, 2009 at 5:01pm — No Comments

Are we thinking 360º?

Sometimes I feel that technology blinds our perspective of the world. If in one hand technology provides us tools of great importance on the other hand in certain contexts technology isn't the best tool - developing countries that need to provide every kind of jobs in order to provide economical power to the community and the obvious lack of technological devices or expertise. This makes me wonder: As a MS student of Service Engineering and Management, would I be able to design a good service w… Continue

Added by Inês Carvalho on September 12, 2009 at 12:36pm — 9 Comments

Service Design - Hospitals of the future

In this Thinkaboutit video, Tine Park, Strategic Design Consultant, at Designit shares her experiences from design processes at Danish hospitals.

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Added by Arne van Oosterom on September 11, 2009 at 6:02pm — No Comments

Valerie Casey (IDEO) On Design Thinking and Sustainability

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Added by Arne van Oosterom on September 11, 2009 at 5:49pm — 1 Comment

Tapping In To Creative Potential - George Kembel

George Kembel, co-founder and executive director of the d.school, describes how creativity can be awakened through the design thinking process.

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Added by Arne van Oosterom on September 11, 2009 at 5:39pm — No Comments

Redmonk's James Governor: Design Thinking

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Added by Arne van Oosterom on September 11, 2009 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Dissertation Writing Process Explained In 6 Simple Steps

Dissertation writing is not an easy task and it is extremely challenging for almost all students. Dissertation writing is the most important part of your degree. It requires dedication, perseverance, ability to do in-depth research and determination. Writing a dissertation is challenging but not impossible if you are provided with professional dissertation help. You should try to facilitate your… Continue

Added by Edna Cohen on September 11, 2009 at 5:54am — 1 Comment

LIST OF THREATS TO "BUSINESS AS USUAL"

I'm working on a presentation I'll be giving at the Experience Service Design event in Finland. I'm trying show how change is a constant, it is how we grow, learn and survive. Change is life. And the only real thread is not changing. For one part of my presentation I'm compiling a list of threats to "business as usual". I asked people on Twitter to help me with this list. Which they generously did :-)) Please tell me if I'm… Continue

Added by Arne van Oosterom on September 5, 2009 at 5:00pm — 2 Comments

Book Project on Social Games

I'm in the process of writing a book for Carnegie Mellon University's ETC Press. The book will expand the work started with my recent blog posts, and in practice, the book will be written by posting drafts of sections every couple of weeks to my blog. My goal is to finish the manuscript spring 2010. I will also take advantage of my on-going design projects, workshops, and teaching next semester to give the book an accessible,… Continue

Added by Aki Järvinen on September 2, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments