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28 Jan 2010 0022H

Another year, another Apple event

Or was it? I’ve been saying this in various places, but, I think we saw a game changer of an event today. Technologically nothing has changed. But because it addresses emerging markets and unmet user needs, the iPad will change computing as we know it, really make it part of our contemporary everyday experience, almost [...]

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10 Aug 2008 0826H

Gap goes back to basics

From BusinessWeek:
“For several years, Gap, under former Disney (DIS) executive Paul Pressler, relied heavily on focus groups and spent little time in the stores. Early on, Gap North American President Marka Hansen encouraged Robinson to have breakfast with store managers at Gap’s flagship on 34th Street in New York City. As he scribbled furiously in [...]

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08 Apr 2008 0745H

On “Chinese Design Everyday”

Is there such a thing as Chinese design?
Of course there is design produced by Chinese, either Americans of Chinese descent or Chinese in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taiwan, or Singapore. That is Chinese design after a fashion. But is there a vernacular we can call Chinese design? What makes it so?
I would aver, as the exhibit [...]

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28 Mar 2008 2027H

At last it’s come to this

With nothing more about the candidates to discuss, and, after the Diddy/Tupac fiasco, certainly no capability to discuss, the LA Times is focusing on the typefaces of the candidates’ campaigns. 

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15 Jan 2008 1319H

Macworld ‘08; Starbucks; Good to Great

No telling what’ll happen this week. Movie rentals on the iTunes Store? Eh. Would put a cork in the non-debate that is HD-DVD vs. Blu Ray, since frankly people are bypassing it all via direct downloads off P2P networks. So, if it ain’t broke, why fix it? I’d like to see iPhone rolled out to [...]

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10 Jan 2008 0931H

the Tata People’s Car

I’ve talked a lot about cars here in the past, mostly small cars, and how cars represent a design challenge because of their impact on the environment and users and usage contexts and the like. So, by now people probably have heard all about Tata Motors’ bargain basement car, Rp1 lakh/$2500, comes with nothing but [...]

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