The Monday Morning Movie
At Daedalus we recently started a new tradition — we call it the Monday Morning Movie, or MMM for short. But before telling you about our new tradition, let me …
The Meaning of Experience
My mom is barely old enough to remember a world without color television. As far as I remember, we’ve always had a computer in the house, and my younger brother …
Conventional Thinking Parallels Conventional Brainstorming
When Daedalus was sponsoring the Pittsburgh Technology Council’s event The Creative Technology Network’s Innovator Series Presents Roger Martin: Gaining Competitive Advantage with Design Thinking (5/22/2012), I decided to read Martin’s The Opposable …
Daedalus Sponsors Upcoming Roger Martin PTC Talk
Daedalus is pleased to announce our sponsorship of an upcoming PTC talk by Roger Martin, a leading business speaker and global Design Thinking evangelist: The Creative Technology Network’s Innovator Series …
Why Ordinary Brainstorming Doesn’t Work
Recently there have been several prominent articles published that disparage brainstorming, making the claim that brainstorming is a failed corporate experiment … that it doesn’t work. Most recently and perhaps …
Gingerbread House Competition
What happens when you give industrial designers and engineers the supplies to make gingerbread houses and 7 ½ minutes to do so?
Differences To Consider Between Clinical And Home Environments – Industrial Design
Several of our group recently presented at the 2011 Plastics in Medical Devices Conference, in Huron, Ohio. Here’s what Chris Connors had to say on the importance of considering the …
Design Thinking: Designers Don’t Get It
Okay, the title is a gross generalization and should more likely be “Design Thinking – Some Designers Get It and Some Don’t.” In May of last year I spoke on …
What Is Design Thinking?
What is design thinking? It’s undoubtedly a term that has exploded in use over recent years, but its meaning is a little more than fuzzy. Some believe it’s the key …
Questions, Vision, and Innovation
We were struck today by two blog posts on the Harvard Business Review website. In fact, they were the first and second most read posts on the site on March …