Thinking Design by Lars Rosengren

Jamie Oliver’s dynamic talk at the TED

larsrose — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:43:22 +0000

I wish for everyone to help create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity
Jamie Oliver

I am pleased to see that Jamie Oliver has reached TED, or rather that his messaged has reached TED. His passion for transforming food consumption is contagious and highly relevant. It has taken me personally a long time to start cooking, but I now feel this is one of our most essential components of life. I may not be obese and I may not have addicted to fast food in the past either, but it is remarkable how we manage to downplay the most important human needs, such as eating, to such an extreme extent as we do. Continue reading →

OLPC XO 3 concept video

Aksha Fernandez — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:27:03 +0000

What is the real meaning of risk?

larsrose — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:43:46 +0000

The other day, Hartmut Esslinger’s book “A fine line” finally dropped in my mailbox. Its green cover with subtle Wega inspired dots instantly makes you want to break open the book and eagerly rush through the pages. I will not review his book yet, as I still have a few chapters to finish, except to say, it is a refreshingly personal and frank book, with many thoughtful ideas.

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Birth 2 business by IDEO

larsrose — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:20:22 +0000

A thoughtful video by IDEO on how we are introduced to new experiences and how they affect us. Birth 2 Business from IDEO on Vimeo.

Experience design languages

larsrose — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:48:13 +0000

Experience design languages View more documents from whatidiscover. Presentation on experience design languages by Shelley Evenson via Slideshare.net

Dan Saffer – Attention Awareness for Interaction Designers 2009

larsrose — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:43:44 +0000

Some relevant thoughts from Dan Saffer via theInteraction Design Association on Vimeo.

Papershow by Dan Roam

larsrose — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:43:25 +0000

During the time I was working in Anoto, Papershow was a proactive, innovative initiative by my client Papeteries Hamelin at the time. It was a challenge to bring Hamelin’s vision into reality, but eventually they did. I am now pleased … Continue reading →

IDEO Human centred design toolkit

larsrose — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:20:41 +0000

IDEO’s open source human centered design toolkit is a good source of inspiration. It will be a help for NGOs and social entrepreneurs to design and implement innovative, customer-centric solutions to specific design challenges for global communities in need via … Continue reading →

Twitter Venn diagram

larsrose — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:56:01 +0000

Found an interesting visualisation tool at neoformix today. It allows you to visualise the relationship between different twitter search terms, in the form of a Venn diagram.

I miss my pencil – Book by IDEO

larsrose — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:31:47 +0000

When Tim Brown was the the V&A last month, he mentioned the book “I miss by pencil” by Martin Bone and Kara Johnson of IDEO, which caught my attention. Although, I have just ordered the book and not yet had … Continue reading →