Archive for September, 2007

links for 2007-09-30

30Sep07

Retail Health Clinics Are Rolling Your Way - May 2006 - Family Practice Management
(tags: medicine healthcare)

Design Research Conference– The rest of ‘em

29Sep07

I was going to continue on with my digest series about the design research conference from this year, but instead, I think I’m just going to point you to the New Idiom, the newsletter from the Institute of Design, now running on TypePad.  On this week’s issue, there is a description of most of the […]

Set up projects so they *can* fail [easily] and learn from them

29Sep07

One of my favorite quotes of all time is David Kelley from IDEO’s “Fail Faster, Succeed Sooner”. I’m a nerd, so I even have the quote hung up near my desk to remind me to just make something or do something. Trying it, instead of postulating about it. A friend just […]

Design Research Conference Digest: Darrel Rhea

25Sep07

Well, it’s over, and I’m beat.
Now, I have a ton to catch up with that I’ve slightly neglected over the course of the weekend, but the conference was well worth it.
I’ll do a few posts here and there about some interesting points that the speakers have made:
Darrel Rhea: CEO/Principal, Cheskin. Talked about growth […]

Don’t be evil

25Sep07

This “trick your customer” affair would make Seth Godin vomit.
As reported by Consumerist a while back, a “secret” intranet-only kiosk was placed in the Best Buy stores in order to deceive customers who tried to check product prices.
Here’s the typical use: buyer would be sitting at home on the internet, check a product on Best […]

links for 2007-09-25

25Sep07

ID methods project - ID Wiki
(tags: design methods innovation wiki)

Smart Furniture
Using passivity to store information about student learning - explore for ELR
(tags: ELR learning furniture design smart)

links for 2007-09-20

20Sep07

The Heart of Innovation: Big Problem or Right Problem? The Egg Freckles Saga.
innovation failure- add to IX
(tags: innovation casestudy)

links for 2007-09-19

19Sep07

getAbstract Book Summaries: Thousands of Book Summaries online!
(tags: book summary reference)

Main Page Summary - WikiSummaries, free book summaries
(tags: books wiki Reference summary review)

links for 2007-09-18

18Sep07

Heuristics for User Interface Design
(tags: heuristics user-centered cognition)

Institute of Design: Design Research Conference

17Sep07

This week promises to be a hectic one. Apart from our distinguished prof, Chuck Owens being in New Zealand while our systems class races forward to complete “function structures,” make sure that our “defining statements” are right, and we’re on track to come up with a plan to reform health care. Okay, if you don’t […]

links for 2007-09-17

17Sep07

YouTube - Richard Dawkins - “What if you’re wrong?”
(tags: religion dawkins evolution)

100 Fastest Growing Emerging Market Companies–Watch Them.
(tags: emerging markets enterprise business BRIC)

links for 2007-09-13

13Sep07

Metacognition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
electronic learning record
(tags: cognition learning education)

links for 2007-09-11

11Sep07

Comparison of web application frameworks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
useful for sdr uit2.0
(tags: web design application software reference)

How to Write Remarkably Creative Content | Copyblogger
(tags: creativity writing)

A vegetarian guide from treehugger.com

10Sep07

vegetable Napoleon with tomato coulis
flickr credit: Amelia PS
I use a variety of excuses when people ask me why I am vegetarian. Actually, I mostly got asked why I was a vegetarian this past summer when I was in the PRC. One excuse that I used was that it doesn’t […]

Entrepreneurs and Saving the World, etcetera

10Sep07

Last week, Bill Clinton spoke at the Inc 500 conference about entrepreneurship and challenged small business owners of the fastest growing small companies to tackle large systemic problems by using their creativity: the health care crisis and poverty.
In my large scale systems planning workshop class on Tuesdays and Fridays, that’s exactly what we’re doing.  We’re […]



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  • Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science

    Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science by Charles Wheelan

  • Stumbling on Happiness

    Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert

  • Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics

    Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics by Eric D. Beinhocker

  • Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software

    Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson

  • The Emerging Markets Century: How a New Breed of World-Class Companies Is Overtaking the World

    The Emerging Markets Century: How a New Breed of World-Class Companies Is Overtaking the World by Antoine van Agtmael

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