Here’s an interesting quote I came acrosss in Business Week magazine.
As one MBA joked, in his world, the language of design is a sound only dogs can hear.
-Marty Neumeier
Welcome Lofu, Goodbye Crocs. The trend in bashing Crocs as ugly has finally motivated one company, Lofu to design their own cellulose foam shoe. It’s awesome! Get it here.
Recently attended a workshop on the Creative Problem Solving Process, a facilitation method for generating actionable ideas grounded in research and data. Six steps are involved in the process.
1. Objective Finding: Identify a goal, wish, or challenge
2. Fact Finding: Gather information for a clear and understandable objective
3. Problem Finding: Sharpen awareness of the problem and create a crisp problem statement that invites solutions.
4. Idea Finding: Generate potential ideas that addresses the problem statement
5. Solution Finding: Select solutions using criteria to evaluate potential solutions against the best fit
6. Acceptance Finding: Identify resources and actions to support implementation of the selected solutions
Last week, the family spent the day in Uptown. I took Murph to the dog park to do a little research and Haze took the girls to the playground. Murph isn’t shy about getting his butt scratched! He justs backs up into you.
Murphy, our pocket Rott!
Fire Hydrant
On one of walks with Murphy, I came up with a design of a Fire Hydrant inspired by Johnny Cupcakes - a really clever concept that put a new twist on the skull and bones design trend.
