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		<title>Some Highlights from the DMI Re-Thinking Design Conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are some synopses from the sessions I most enjoyed.
Re-Thinking and Re-Designing Business Strategy
It’s probably my own particular bias that I thought that the panel with Jeanne Liedtka and Tony Golsby-Smith, moderated by Roger Martin, was the highlight of the conference. But the session really stood out for me as one of the most spirited [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://designasterisk.com/2009/06/some-highlights-from-the-dmi-re-thinking-design-conference/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on the Design Management Institute&#8217;s 2009 Conference &#8220;Re-Thinking Design&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I attended the Design Management Institute’s 2009 Design/Management/Brand Conference, titled “Re-Thinking Design”. It was my first DMI conference, and I was initially attracted by the “strategic conversations” focus of the conference, being organized by Roger Martin of the Rotman School at U. Toronto and Darrel Rhea of Cheskin Added Value. Adding to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://designasterisk.com/2009/06/thoughts-on-the-design-management-institutes-2009-conference-re-thinking-design/</link>
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		<title>Design in the White City</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just finished reading the best-selling historical novel Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson, about the development of the Chicago Columbian Exposition in 1893. I picked it up out of interest in knowing more about Chicago history, and the book does a really outstanding job of bringing the physical reality of the city [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://designasterisk.com/2008/08/design-in-the-white-city/</link>
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		<title>The Fallacy of Novelty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I was having a discussion with Angela about how design sometimes misses the mark when it comes to supplying elegant solutions to complex problems. Too often designers come up with overly elaborate or contrived solutions to issues that could stand to use a more mundane and commonplace approach (either for purposes of simplicity, cost, or implementation). [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://designasterisk.com/2008/08/the-fallacy-of-novelty/</link>
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		<title>Morning becomes electric (cars, that is)</title>
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BMW&#8217;s new electric MINI
The rising cost of gas for automobiles has kicked-started the development of electric and hybrid cars out of the realm of niche and into mainstream, albeit early adopter mainstream. BMW just announced a new electric version of their MINI and Tesla Motors has just released their high-end electric sports car. While this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://designasterisk.com/2008/07/morning-becomes-electric-cars-that-is/</link>
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		<title>Can you hear me now?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Widex Inteo hearing aid in translucent black
I&#8217;ve recently been experiencing the acquisition of a new set of hearing aids, two Widex Inteos. I had my previous hearing aid (Oticon Adapto) for about 5-6 years, and it was conking out on me, sputtering from repair to repair. I finally made the decision to go for hearing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://designasterisk.com/2008/07/can-you-hear-me-now/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t complain, critique</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not often that I write a letter to the CEO of a company to provide insight to my experience with their organization. In fact, it takes quite a bit to get me off of my, shall we say, &#8220;correspondance&#8221; ass. However, the stars aligned and I was compelled to send out a two page [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://designasterisk.com/2008/07/dont-complain-critique/</link>
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		<title>A Lesson in Half-Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is an interesting article in the Chicago Tribune this morning regarding a new milk jug that has just been rolled out to Wal-Mart and Costco. I won&#8217;t get into all the specifics of what&#8217;s good and bad about the introduction &#8211; but suffice to say that the product designers had one customer in mind: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://designasterisk.com/2008/07/a-lesson-in-half-design/</link>
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		<title>Encounters with Bad Service Design (Airlines)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This whole thing with the airlines charging for bags. Call it short-sighted or wrong-headed, it really seems like a bad solution. Or at least, the airlines aren&#8217;t considering the full spectrum of the problem. They are seeing the problem only through the lens of fuel costs, and not at all through the lens of customer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://designasterisk.com/2008/06/encounters-with-bad-service-design-airlines/</link>
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