"You were spending more time fighting politics than doing design, " said Alastair Curtis, Nokia's chief designer from 2006 to 2009.
He took a job working for a chain of magic shops, doing graphic design and demonstrating tricks.
Before doing architectural design, he was a glass sculptor.
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"Panasonic engineers bring us in to make evaluations and listen to what we have to say, so that when they are doing the design work they take our considerations into effect, " said Steven Poster ASC, cinematographer.
In an effort to keep costs down and build good will, NASA is welcoming other countries to join the effort, though NASA will be doing the actual design work.
While the Gameport isn't entirely Ben's doing, he did design the casing for the device, not to mention pick the name for it.
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He skimps on the design, not doing enough tests and hurrying building the device, so that he can focus on successfully freezing his wife before she dies.
These days the best designers are not just doing one small part of the design process, Aronowitz said.
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"What we are doing is the basic science to design these things, like how big should items be, and how they can stop interfering with each other, " explained Professor Brewster.
"Graphics companies come and go, but with TSMC, you have a manufacturing-services provider that will also be doing business with the next hot design house that comes along, " says Matt Cleary, Asia tech research chief at Lehman Brothers.
He is proud that they are doing heavy lifting on the environment, that they design products with the environment in mind.
Also know that by design, scripts block a Web browser from doing parallel downloads, so browsers have to wait until a script is downloaded from Google before moving on to any others.
Many app-oriented startups use design to mask the fact that what they are doing with data is actually rather thin.
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University College Falmouth opened in 1902 as an arts school and has about 4, 000 students doing mainly degrees and post-graduate studies in art, design, media, performance and writing.
The halo effect of the marketing and desirability of devices like the Lumia 920 will be vital to this endeavor, and by using consistent design cues across the Lumia range, Nokia are doing their best to encourage this.
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"The overall economy at the upper sphere is doing very well, " says Jerry Gore, chief executive officer of Gore Design Completions Ltd. in San Antonio, Texas.
"Our design goal would be to make the astronauts, when they're doing geology, look like a geologist on the surface of the Earth, " Lutz says.
We are doing research at the Festival this year among Senior Marketers to see how we could design an engagement for them that would dramatically help them build their personal leadership and capability.
In the job, she would be more disconnected from the design work she loved and she would be focused far more on finances and doing deals.
And coders may not become better designers (many developers just wish somebody else would do the design) but they will certainly become more productive and have more confidence in doing things they have never done before.
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As Vice President of Branding for Highgate Hotels, Susan Jaques oversees brand strategy for a group of over 40 properties including the Paramount Hotel in New York City and the Parc 55 Hotel in San Francisco and takes on design projects in her role too everything from overhauling hotel lobbies to re-doing specialty suites.
All in all, with its metro-style design, its completely overhauled UI, and its radical integration of touch functionality, Microsoft is finally doing something truly bold and interesting.
Thus, ThinkPad is doing what it should do: delivering a product, year in and year out, that touches on the same design elements: black, squared off, and so on.
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