Wednesday.

"If you have a dream, make it your goal."

i will follow

Very nice song I would love to share ~ ^^

Tuesday .

"Humbition is one part humility and one part ambition....We notice that by far the lion's share of world-changing luminaries are humble people. They focus on the work, not themselves. They seek success — they are ambitious — but they are humbled when it arrives. They know that much of that success was luck, timing, and a thousand factors out of their personal control. They feel lucky, not all-powerful. Oddly, the ones operating under a delusion that they are all-powerful are the ones who have yet to reach their potential...[So] be ambitious. Be a leader. But do not belittle others in your pursuit of your ambitions. Raise them up instead. The biggest leader is the one washing the feet of the others."

http://www.sgentrepreneurs.com

An Idea .

An idea must come from somewhere, because if it merely stays where it is and doesn't join us here, it's hidden. And hidden ideas don't ship, have no influence, no intersection with the market. They die, alone.

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/

L.I.F.e.

Nice post on my friend's blog here.

For more nice readings, check out this one. :)

Embracing the Upcycle-Seth Godin

Someone who gets better whenever he fails will always outperform someone who responds to failure by getting worse. This isn't something in your DNA, it's something you can learn or unlearn.

When the lizard pushes you to recoil in fear, that's your cue to embrace the trembling fear and do precisely the opposite of what it demands. This won't work the first time or even the tenth, but it's the path to an upcycle, one where each negative input leads to more productivity, not less.

More articles on http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/

Design Thinking - Tim Brown

Last week,we attended The Design Singapore lecture series 2010 with Tim Brown as the main speaker on that event. It was unbelievably inspiring and has lots of things to share and apply on our daily routine as designer.

Some points here I'd love to share,

. Design thinking is all about desirability --- viability --- feasibility

. Design starts with human, what they need/might need, to understand innovation,aspiration, inspiration of people you design for ( bringing communication to all + technology )

. Design doesn't stop in thinking, it's all about creating things from beginning to the end

. Use of prototype: to speed up the process by knowing which idea to scale up, testing up our idea and experimenting

. Nowadays, brands are judged by how they interact + encourage us to interact with them

. The design challenge is to affect rules, tools, and norms to change people's behaviour

. By simply putting up a notice isn't gonna work, we need to use some innovation

. Not only design need to have stories, but it needs to create a movement for people to get participate in it

. First, we have questions to ask before we diverge our thinking, then we create choices, and converge those choices/make choice

Design thinking is an approach to tackle some of the world's more pressing problems.

The Crazy Ones

Here's to the crazy ones.
The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They're not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can quote them, disagree with them,
glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can't do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They push the human race forward,
And while some see them as the crazy ones,
We see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough to
think they can change the world,
Are the ones who do.

Design Can Change Behavior

A designer's strength should not be defined by their aesthetic nor their style
Instead, it's truly and deeply thinking about the person whose design can meet
their needs to solve the problem.

The successful design experience begins by first, having a love affair with your audience and really understanding and digging into their needs.

And second, bringing your design skills to bare and solving those needs in a very human way.

If you can accept the first part, the second part will really become relevant. Once you start thinking about a person's problem, it will quickly become a habit and that habit will lead you to better design and best of all when you work in spring from a desire to transform a problem into a positive experience for someone, then it will be going to solving many issues

-Deborah Adler (http://thirtyconversationsondesign.com/deborahadler/index.html)

Concept of People.

T-shaped people : those who possess, horizontally, a broad-based domain of relevant knowledge and yet vertically, with depth of specialised competencies of a high order

I-shaped people : those with "their feet firmly planted in the mud of the practical world, and yet stretch far enough to stick their head in the clouds when they need to

H-shaped people : those whose vertical pillars of talents;attitudes and temperament are reinforced by the horizontal beam of desired creative habits


-Design Society Journal No.1-

Be Influencers~

The video was posted by a friend of mine, such a nice one :)

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