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Business Today Needs Deanna Troi
When Paramount debuted Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1987, it included not only new characters but new roles for those who commanded Starfleet ships. Among the most original was the character of Deanna Troi, ship’s “counselor.” Many, including the writers for the...
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Aspen Design Conference 1981
I just found this poster online and it reminded me that my design journey really started at this conference in the Colorado Rookies in 1981. I hadn't heard of the conference but I went on the recommendation of our family friend, Karen Laubhan (who had attended a few...
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Teaching Sustainability
Last week, I participated in a webcast for Sustainable Minds on using their tool for teaching and, non general, how we teach sustainability to our students. Creating Knowledge Workers for the Greener Product Marketplace, Part 12: Creative innovation educators...
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IKEA Instructions Proposal
Way back in 1998, I and a three others at TheUnderstandingBuinsess worked on a quick proposal to IKEA to redesign their assembly instructions (just imagine if they had taken us up on the idea!). To send it to the corporate office in Sweden we designed the entire...
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It’s the Relationship, Stupid!
I don't post on Medium very often (or here, for that matter), but when I have something to say... https://medium.com/@nathanshedroff/its-the-relationship-stupid-a1863a70f6d6#.7mre9fq4u
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Blind Spot the Trailer
JJ Hadley made an excellent trailer to talk about why our new book is so important to business: www.vimeo.com/192042612
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Blind Spot finally published
This book has been five years in the making, rewritten (from scratch) four times, and has finally shipped! My co-authors, Steve Diller and Sean Sauber, have worked tirelessly on it with me and it's time to share it with the world. Douglas Rushkoff was kind enough to...
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New presentations posted to Slideshare
It was a busy two months in February and March with two different trips to Seattle and workshops and talks both times. In addition, I was in New York City with WebVisions also speaking and leading a brand, new workshop! I've posted everything to SlideShare for those...
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My article on the ethics of business
I wrote this several months ago and updated it but it should be relevant: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jd-beltran/spending-monday-giving-tu_b_8722958.html Thanks to JD Beltran for getting it published!
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My UX Poland talk
My presentation from UX Poland this Spring on The Value Design Brings to Business, was just posted to YouTube.
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