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The Gremlin Strategy, or How to Ward Off Disruption

Matthew May

Such a person is Brian Muirhead, who at age 41 in 1993 accepted the job as flight systems manager of the Mars Pathfinder project and with it the NASA challenge to land a cutting-edge, remote-controlled robotic all-terrain rover on Mars that would reliably beam back images, collect samples, and return scientific data on the red planet.

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Emotional Design with A.C.T. - Part 1

Boxes and Arrows

As UX professionals, we strive to design engaging experiences. These experiences help to forge relationships between the products we create and the people who use them. In Part 1 of this two-part article, I’ll be discussing how emotions command attention. Attractive people can have the same effect.

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Design for Emotion and Flow

Boxes and Arrows

We create software and websites to display and represent information to people. Information architects and designers play a critical role in ensuring the products they design provide users’ with a return on their investment of attention. All this information has a lot of positive effects, but it also creates challenges.

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How the B Corp Movement is Redefining Business for Good

Econic

How do we redefine business for good? The B Corp movement is raising the standards of how businesses are run on multiple levels. With a shared vision to make business a force for good, three friends founded B Lab in 2006; this sparked the beginning of the B Crop movement. What are some examples of B Corps in action?

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Information Architecture for Audio: Doing It Right - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design

Boxes and Arrows

Boxes And Arrows : The Design Behind the Design Register or Log In Search Stories Ideas Forums People Events Jobs About December Issue, 2008 Jens Jacobsen 32 Reputation points Jens likes writing for multimedia and loves tracking down usability issues. He founded the company “ Content Crew ” in 2006, and is its CEO since this time.

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Why you need extreme constraints to fuel innovation

hackerearth

In their book A Beautiful Constraint: How To Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It's Everyone's Business , Morgan and Barden, say. “By By making a constraint beautiful, we mean seeing it as an opportunity, not a punitive restriction, and using it as a stimulus to see a new or better way of achieving our ambition.”.

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Brown Bag Innovation

Gregg Fraley

.” Gregg Fraley, keynote speech, circa 2006. It’s a lunch time workshop for those who are typically not involved in focused innovation efforts. It’s a lunch time workshop for those who are typically not involved in focused innovation efforts. It’s designed to help change cultures.