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Wednesday February 24, 2010

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Product Design

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Canon's Cantankerous All-in-One Printer

The ImageClass MF8050Cn is a color laser printer with some high-quality features, but its glitches can make printing a hassle

 

Featured Blog

At Davos and TED, people talk about social innovation and designing solutions for the poor but the poor are absent and invisible. At Design Indaba, they are THERE. The problems are in your face. The need for innovation/design-generated economic growth and jobs is clear, not abstract

Bruce Nussbaum, NussbaumOnDesign

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Architecture

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Eco-Cube for American Embassy in London

The proposed design for the new $500 million American Embassy in London is the architectural face of Obama-era diplomacy

 

Auto Design

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Sensitive Cars Are No Fun

Many of the new gizmos installed in modern cars are needed not because of design faults, but because of driver deficiency. Perhaps it's time to rethink

 

Featured Book Review

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Change By Design

In his new book, the CEO of design shop IDEO shows how even hospitals can transform the way they work by tapping frontline staff to engineer change

 

VIEWPOINT: William Hurley

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Augmented Reality: Getting Beyond the Hype

This meshing of digital information with real-world images is all set to take off. But a few hurdles remain

 

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Top Stories

Eye on Architecture 2010

This Bloomberg/BusinessWeek special report takes the temperature of the global architecture industry in 2010

Ron Arad's Rise From a Wrecked Car Seat

London-based industrial designer Ron Arad discusses a career that's taken him from scrap yards to modern art museums

Who Wants to Buy a Digital Elephant?

Sales of virtual goods are taking off. And it's not just kids who are buying

Special Report: The Value of Design

The catalyst for this report on the value of design in business was the outpouring of reader comments that arrived after a bad-tempered blog post

VIEWPOINT: Dave McClure

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The Value of Design to Startups

Design and marketing are way more important than engineering for consumer Internet companies, argues angel investor Dave McClure

 

IN YOUR FACE: Innovation Roadblocks

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Reader Noah Writes:

"Unfortunately, people with the checkbooks are afraid of the unknown."

 

Innovation Top Story

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Why CEOs Don't Get Innovation

Executives roundly proclaim the need for new ideas and products, but it's often little more than empty talk