The best way to design would be to start from the heart of the product you are designing.
Sierra Wireless's first stab at a Windows Mobile-powered smartphone, the Voq Professional Phone, was pretty much doomed from the start the design was awful, Sierra had zero experience in marketing handsets, and they were never able to convince a single wireless carrier to offer the phone to its subscribers (which for better or for worse is how most phones get sold in the US).
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At the same time, they design in a buyback option from the start, to secure long-term brand control.
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Other faults highlighted in the report were a lack of clear objectives from the start and flaws in the design of the project.
The strong speed and design of the App are early positives for the start-up.
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Likewise, the dowdy design of Dell's music players help doom them from the start.
Right from the beginning, by design, in this land here, you start with a Bill of Rights, Constitution to set the rules of the game, and then you build the institutions.
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While we're missing key hardware specs at the moment, at least potential buyers can start pondering whether they'll be down for the design revisions or not.
He argues in our film that if design can be improved, it is possible that - just as with the design of somewhere like the Lincolnshire town of Stamford in his own constituency - people might start to accept new homes.
What we do is we start by making the part design.
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Feeling immediately confident that I have the measure of my environment, I start to explore the shanty town setting, admiring the quirky design style of the bystanders.
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Unfortunately, for PwC and the Academy, the design and implementation of the new system have been fraught with issues, delays and complaints from the start.
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In other news, this week marked the start of the world's largest design event -- the Milan Furniture Fair.
Start in the spring by creating a design and selecting the types of plants, shrubs and trees you want to include.
You see, contrary to popular belief, the START menu was not about taste in UI design.
"It was the first design where we said 'let's not start with a phone'", said Richard Sharp, Nokia's vice president of multimedia.
"The in-depth assessment confirmed the basic vehicle concepts of the SLS, allowing the team to move forward and start more detailed engineering design, " Gerstenmaier said.
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To design them, bioengineers had to start with cadavers, which furnish the data on precisely how much force a human chest can withstand, say, before the ribs start to break.
To design a glove, travel to myevolution.slugger.com and start the process.
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China is set to start work on a novel design for a nuclear reactor with the help of a firm founded by Bill Gates.
It signals the start of the technical process known as the generic assessment design (GDA), which makes a detailed examination of all aspects surrounding nuclear reactors.
From the start, they decided to focus Vanguard on one-design dinghies, which, like one-design racing cars, are meant to provide a platform where skill and strategy, not equipment, win races.
And while Intel said it will start selling a new processor design, dubbed Nehalem, in the fourth quarter of this year, AMD countered that it will shrink the size of the transistors on its existing server chips by the fourth quarter to match Intel's.
We saw a need that we knew we could meet, as we built up our rather eclectic (not to say quirky) team, attracting some incredible talent and experience from diverse backgrounds in technology start-ups, NGOs, urban design, political risk consulting, the Peace Corps, aid agencies, policing, rule of law, and the Special Forces.
The project will nurture tech start-ups, small businesses, art and design, education, and more.
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Mr Maude called for a fresh start and for the Prime Minister to heed the advice of his "design guru" Lord Rogers to appoint a senior national figure with no possible taint of party politics to manage the project.
MIT, the design consultants think that a central area should be set aside as cheap accommodation for company start-ups.
Instead, the report itself admits that by the time a detailed design has been sketched out and the bidding process finished, actual construction of the store may not start until at least 2035.
To everyone's surprise, including their own, the young architects won with a dramatic design of a great tilted disk, a very fast professional start that produced an extraordinary building 12 years later, in 2001.
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Design work is continuing at the proposed Meadow Lane site, but because there are still technical issues to resolve, a start date has been delayed.
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