Palmer, former design chief, thought that reaching out to consumers was an idiotic idea.
Harrison radically re-thought his design and produced H4, a timekeeper that resembled a large pocket watch.
"We were blown away by the thought and design that went in to these submissions, " said Ben Kaufman, Founder and CEO of Quirky.
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His seemingly careful research was very thorough in terms of its research design, and was thought to reveal many intriguing insights about fundamental human nature.
With design cues that we thought had been abandoned by 2006-era laptops, we're left scratching our heads as to why no one felt the need to stick this on a treadmill for a couple of weeks -- although Fujitsu did say that it would have had to pass the costs of shrinking the hardware onto the consumer.
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The genesis of the modern-day share economy is best traced to San Francisco in 2008, where Chesky and Joe Gebbia, recent Rhode Island School of Design graduates who had fled west, thought they could make some pocket cash by housing attendees at an industrial design conference on air beds in their apartment.
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" Dr Piekarski explained, "The hardware requires a lot of care and thought in the design.
This little afterthought is good for a chuckle, but does not indicate a thought-through design.
The role of landscape architecture is once again one of green embellishment, adding parks here and there, rather than sustainability agenda-setting through thought-provoking design.
Apple thought it could design hardware and software in house and use standard off the shelf parts but that leads to copy cats because parts are parts.
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Wright connected the two disparate works and thought, why not design a game that involves interaction among people from the ground up?
Design for Internet companies is often thought of as just a top layer of pretty paint, but Facebook and other start-ups are integrating design as an integral part of their overall strategy.
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This type of protection requires constant diligence, and a great deal of thought and planning in the design of information systems.
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"I approached the Ambulance Trust because I thought maybe I could produce a design that would benefit them, " he told News Online.
However, when you close your eyes and think about what makes Apple an iconic company, the chances are your first thought will be a Jony Ive design.
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Plenty of thought appears to have gone into the design: For example, there's an extra laser microphone under the keyboard, complementing the two mics next to the camera, allowing the software to cancel out any noise you might make while typing on a video conference.
Buying the needed technology and acquiring the design team from Digital would solve its problems, management thought.
Well, you might have thought we suggested that Apple knew nothing about design or stores or sales!
And I thought that this might mean that a newer design would be released to deal with the design problems that led to that manufacturing problem (specifically, the scratching of the anodised aluminium case).
Genta's original trial design included 270 patients--a size Warrell said they thought was OK because Schering-Plough (nyse: SGP - news - people ) had done a cancer trial that small.
We went to Lotus, told them what we thought would work, and they came back with this design.
Meanwhile, prices have dropped for three of the four MacBook Air models, which, since their 2008 debut, have been thought of as the gold standard in ultra-thin laptop design.
The authority, which agreed to fund the repairs on 2 October, said investigations during the design phase of the scheme had revealed that more work was needed than initially thought.
This Chris Anderson, not the author of Free, runs the exclusive TED conference (Technology, Entertainment, Design), which began in 1984 as an invite-only hobnob session for thought leaders.
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It is thought that they form the north-eastern corner of the building, which followed a design described in Henry V as "this wooden O".
Yet the implications of their own social thought should have made them anti-utopian pragmatists, well aware that none of us know enough to design a perfect society in the here and now.
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