IDEO, and other design firms like it, are changing the way large organizations interact with their customers.
Here's an analysis of how this and other design elements turned an imposing showplace into a livable space.
Other design notes: that speaker grille up front has a funky circular pattern, which we're not really digging.
Another other design choice that might haunt Apple: only one USB port.
If the U.S. public had known of the crashes, lower-than-expected stealthiness and other design problems that afflicted this aircraft early on, Congress might well have prematurely terminated its production.
There are many other design-thinking principles that entrepreneurs need to heed, such as the fact that products and services are bought by human beings, not target markets segmented into demographic categories.
That and other design changes were worked out in virtual reality laboratories that allowed engineers and designers on two continents to discuss the car as if they were in the same room.
Flash and HTML5 generally displayed correctly despite a few minor rendering bugs, and the curved tabs and other design touches make it one of the more elegant Android browsers we've played with.
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The candidate will be expected to performance radiation performance measurements, create test plans, execute them, publish test reports, provide feedback to the other design engineers, and lead some of the manufacturing of antenna.
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At Trash-Couture, which boasts a massive list of celebrity clients like Penelope Cruz, Rachel Weisz, Kirsten Dunst, Celine Dion and many others -- ethical fashion and the way they reuse, redesign, respin, and recycle leftover fabric from their own collection and that of other design houses is part of the design.
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Aside from this and the other external design differences, the software won't look quite the same.
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If we adopt this type of mindset, think of how we can impassion and motivate each other to design system solutions to wicked problems!
In other green design news, artist Michael Jantzen has released designs for a solar-powered seed-sowing machine that would plant flowers at sites of environmental destruction.
Adobe has made a beta version of Shadow available as part of Adobe Labs, which also houses other web design offerings like Adobe Edge and Muse.
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You can enter to win a dry erase calendar set (or other funky design) found here at WallPops (no Fathead or Euro for purposes of the giveaway due to license restrictions).
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Thrun is also working with other companies to design and tailor classes to specific needs in the work force.
Understanding such social behaviour may hint at ways to design other sorts of superconducting material or even, paradoxically, better insulators.
The other new hardware design that is getting attention is glasses and for this we can thank Google (GOOG) and Google Glass.
Apart from its uniqueness, Concorde is seen as a pace-setter because all other attempts to design such aircraft have relied on its delta wing design.
Barring a miraculous surge in demand for Zip disks and drives, Iomega's best strategic move may lie in helping other electronics companies design devices that incorporate its storage technologies.
Apple, on the other hand, has no SEPs: but it does have a lot of design and other, not SEP, patents.
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He mentioned that LG offers two high-end product lines, one focused on premium design (Optimus G), the other on high-performance design (Optimus G Pro) and shared a diagram with us to illustrate this (after the break).
Other than that, this has fundamentally the same design as the other Yoga laptops, which is to say its screen can fold all the way around into tablet mode (with in-between options, like Tent and Stand modes).
But other experts worry that design patents in particular are often drawn too broadly and granted too easily.
Unlike Stuxnet, which specifically damaged Siemens PCS 7 systems, Duqu appears to be only collecting information about the design of other industrial control systems.
This will prove not just through products linked at the back end to each other, but in design features employing more flexible HTML5 technologies.
Work closely with other RF and antenna design engineers, mechanical and industrial designers, and EMC engineers to integrate the antenna design in our products.
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Mr Armstrong explained that in the example of a house, money invested in its construction led directly to further spending on furnishings, architectural and landscape design and other household products.
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The longevity of our industry and the infusion of new and diverse ideas that appeal to ALL consumers depend on getting more women into engineering, math, design and other STEM-related disciplines.
While specific industry knowledge can be an asset, it also can result in failure to sufficiently consider other approaches to incentive design and performance measurement that may better fit the strategy of the company.
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