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What Formula Made Steve Jobs as an Innovation Leader So Successful?

IdeaScale

And until 2001, that was it. When Apple did debut a new product in October 2001, it was completely outside those categories as well: It was the iPod, a personal music player that worked with Macs. Part of this was the design. The iPhone was designed to be elegant; you didn’t need to poke at it with a stylus.

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Why designers need systems thinking

The Inovo Group

Design thinking is big in the corporate world. Ever since Tim Brown wrote his seminal book ‘ The Art of Innovation ‘ in 2001, the role of design thinking in innovation has grown – and for good reason. One can argue the reasons for systems thinking not catching on the way that design thinking has (e.g. Original Article ».

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When Information Design is a Matter of Life or Death

Boxes and Arrows

Subsequently, leaflets are heavily regulated in the way they need to be designed, written, and produced. Adding to the design challenge is the fact that the guidelines for how medicine information leaflets are designed changes from country to country, and the guidelines are often vague. Possible Design Improvements.

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A Revolutionary Idea – Thinking Inside the Box

Destination Innovation

In 1766 in England James Brindley designed a box boat with wooden containers to transport coal by canal to Manchester. McLean designed and patented the standard container; 8 feet tall by 8 ft wide by 10 ft and made from thick corrugated steel. McLean died in New York in 2001.

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Nine Short Innovation Lessons from Lego

Destination Innovation

Jorgen Vig Knudstorp joined in 2001 and was promoted to CEO three years later at the age of 36. They asked customers to help design new products. There are many books and studies describing the company’s approach. Here we try to compress all the myriad comments and analyses into a few transferable lessons.

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The Rise of Product Management

Moves the Needle

Also, while human-centered design certainly existed, the practices of “design thinking” reaching tech companies to any real degree was still a decade away. By 2001, I was running Product Management at a different company. Agile and Human-Centered Design The Agile Manifesto of 2001 was a game-changer in product development.

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New Decade, New What?

100%Open

I attended the Stanley Kubrick exhibition at the Design Museum last year and learned that Arthur C. Clarke made one bizarrely accurate prediction as two astronauts in the movie 2001 can be seen reading a newspaper on something that looks suspiciously like an iPad, that he calls a Newspad.