Debate

Debate: How to Brainstorm Effectively

In my recent post Susan Cain: The pow­er of intro­verts, I men­tioned that I agreed with Cain’s view on brain­storm­ing — that it is ben­e­fi­cial to allow par­tic­i­pants to brain­storm on their own before dis­cussing ideas in a group set­ting. Then last week I came across more arti­cles dis­cussing the pro­ce­dure of brain­storm­ing.

Susan Cain: The power of introverts | Video on TED.com

Susan Cain: The pow­er of intro­verts | Video on TED.com. As some­one who would describe her­self as nat­u­ral­ly more intro­vert­ed, I real­ly love this video high­light­ing the pow­er of intro­verts in a cul­ture that tends to val­ue extro­ver­sion. This video goes along with a long list of arti­cles I’ve read over the past few months […]

Coca-Cola Arctic Home White Cans: Good Move?

Recent­ly, Coca-Cola has received some back­lash from the release of the Arc­tic Home white cans. It is the first time in the company’s 125-year his­to­ry that the cans are not most­ly red. So, was the deci­sion to pro­duce these lim­it­ed-edi­­tion white cans a good one or was it a poor strat­e­gy to raise aware­ness?

The Creative vs. The Marketing Team

The rea­son I like this arti­cle The Cre­ative vs. The Mar­ket­ing Team: Yin And Yang, Oil And Water — Smash­ing Mag­a­zine is because it breaks down the issues between cre­ative and mar­ket­ing teams and encour­ages design­ers to stand up for them­selves and their work. It is, of course, writ­ten from the per­spec­tive of a cre­ative per­son, but it doesn’t put all the blame on mar­ket­ing peo­ple. The author is real­ly seek­ing to have us all work bet­ter togeth­er.

The Design Imperialism Debate

As soon as I wrote my post about Emi­ly Pilloton’s Design Rev­o­lu­tion Road­show, my hus­band was quick to show me this arti­cle writ­ten by Bruce Nuss­baum over at Fast Com­pa­ny: Is Human­i­tar­i­an Design the New Impe­ri­al­ism? This arti­cle has caused quite a stir in the design com­mu­ni­ty. At first glance, I found the arti­cle to […]