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The design community needs to move on from the incessant argument over the importance of design thinking and process. It is time to claim victory. Get over it. The argument is boring. Design is important. We stipulate that design is about more than sexy products. We get that design is about delivering a compelling customer experience. We know that business model innovation is fundamentally about designing new ways to create, deliver and capture value. Now, can we get on with putting design thinking and process to work to enable business model innovation?

—In The Problem With “Design Thinking,” my friend Saul Kaplan goes a little nuclear on his designer friends. I actually think the discussion around design thinking (to which, I confess, I have contributed more than makes me in any way comfortable) has moved on, though I still think examples of those who’ve figured out how to implement its ideas effectively are few and far between. This is an excerpt from Saul’s new book on business model innovation, just published, and which I’m looking forward to reading. (via thoughtyoushouldseethis)

stoweboyd:

Someone who hasn’t fallen for George Orwell’s trope ‘whoever is winning now will always seem to be invincible.’

Here’s Why Google and Facebook Might Completely Disappear in the Next 5 Years - Eric Jackson via Forbes

In the tech Internet world, we’ve really had 3 generations:

1. Web 1.0…

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I am sorry to write such a long letter. I didn’t have time to write a short one.

—Mark Twain (via soxiam)

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Design is moving centre-stage in the eternal human quest to make beauty out of necessity

— Paola Antonelli, The World in 2036: Design takes over, says Paola Antonelli via The Economist (via stoweboyd)

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I really kind of wonder about Frank Gehry. I just don’t understand how you can get so many tin cans and make architecture out of it.

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This article is absolutely wonderful, and anyone with any love for photography, architecture, and such things should take a few minutes and read it. 

Simply lovely Q&A with Pedro Guerrero in Architect magazine. The 95 year old was the longtime photographer of the work and life of both Frank Lloyd Wright and Alexander Calder, and his stories are tender, wry and insightful. If you’re in Los Angeles, please go along to the retrospective, Photographs of a Modern Life, showing at the Woodbury University Hollywood Space until April 25th — and let me know how his pictures are in real life! (via thoughtyoushouldseethis)