Sunday, September 5, 2010
The process for interviewing for a job is similar to the dating process. Generally, it goes something like this: Step 1: Find someone you want to date (find a place where you want to work) Step 2 (optional): Find someone that might know her (find someone that might know someone who works there) Step 3: […]
Sunday, September 5, 2010
My friend listens to a very niche type of music, I call it “Post-Pop”. Post-pop bands are a re-undergrounding of what once was. The sunken Atlantis. One-hit-wonders like Chumbawamba, Bare Naked Ladies, or Live had one famous album and then lost traction. My friend listens to their albums that was released after their famous one. […]
Friday, September 3, 2010
The following are some lessons that Frank Garrity, who owned and ran Bally Design, taught me – how to have principles in the business of design. When I was a freshman, I spent hours crafting a resume-package asking… begging to be considered as a design intern. I didn’t want to spend my summer in any […]
Friday, September 3, 2010
I wore a pair of khaki skaterpants to my first internship interview. Skater-pants, let me remind you, were a popular pair of pants in the late 90’s. They were like bellbottoms, except instead of just flaring out at the bottom, they kind of… kept flaring upwards to the waist. Disco had bellbottoms, Hiphop had hammer […]
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Being “A Professional” is a state of mind, a way of life. To act “Professional” is just a behavior, a facade. Being “A Professional” is a deliberate everyday practice of your inner pursuit to achieve perfection, from how you fill your cup of coffee to how you present your design to your colleagues. It takes […]
Whatever you’re thinking, someone’s already thought it. Whatever you want to do, someone’s already doing it. Whatever you do, you’ll beat them to it. Whatever you finish, it’ll be worth it.
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How we commonly determine a person’s expertise is through a persona’s past “Experience”. If we make a formula on how you gain experience, it would look something like this: Experience = practice x time If we then breakdown “practice”, it’s the added components of Skill 1, Skill 2, Skill 3, etc. As an example: Experience […]
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Saturday, August 28, 2010
When Buckminster Fuller was 32 he started the practice of consciously choosing every word he used. The deliberate analysis of each word seemed to free him from the cultural boundaries created by the limitations of language. It allowed him to rethink and reanalyze common words and change it’s use to effectively communicate his ideas. If […]
Thursday, August 26, 2010
To conduct an ethnographic study, hire ethnography firms, not design firms. Would you go to a firefighter to sequence DNA to check for mutations? No, you go to a geneticist. When I was at Nissan, we hired the best design firms and the best qualitative research firms in the country. It made designers look like […]
Design takes you to some place better than a negative world of problems and take you to a world of happiness. Industrial designers do not solve problems though we sometimes solve annoyances. In the name of business and monetary success, industrial designers have made prolific statements that we are problem-solvers even though the only real […]
