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A note on privacy

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Insitute of Design talk March 1st, SF

Institute of Design Strategy Workshop
If a little pricey...

Overview
Themes like "total user-experience" and "reliable methods of innovation" are becoming important to business, and business leaders are increasingly looking to design to help in these areas (for an example, see this recent article in Business Week). The challenge for both designers and business managers is to find methods and frameworks for bringing the two groups together. To meet this challenge, there needs to be an increase both in business leaders' expectations of design and in designers' abilities to link the creation of user value to the creation of economic value.

This program will bring together designers and managers from engineering, marketing and other fields who want to help identify ways that design can be used in a more strategic way than it normally is. It will start with short presentations and panel discussion covering a range of topics, including:

# Design and entrepreneurship
# Designing services
# Designing the business
# Educating executives about design
# New initiatives from the business press and associations
# A new joint publication between IIT and I.D. Magazine about design and strategy

These will be followed by a workshop where participants will contribute ideas that can help design practice, design education and the people writing about design. These ideas will be captured and shared with the participants and others who can make use of them.

+Jono

Digital guru floats sub-$100 PC

Digital guru floats sub-$100 PC

He said one laptop per child could be " very important to the development of not just that child but now the whole family, village and neighbourhood".

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