Interactions Cafe

XV.1 January + February 2008
Page: 80
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On innovation, appropriateness, intervention design…


Authors:
Richard Anderson, Jon Kolko

Shortly after attending the ICSID-IDSA CONNECTING '07 World Design Congress in San Francisco, EICs Jon and Richard sat down to discuss the conference and its relationship to this issue of interactions. Jon: I'm concerned with the overabundance of the word "innovation" in our professional discipline. At CONNECTING '07, the theme was neither subtle nor convincing: Nearly every speaker talked about innovation (some better than others), yet no one over the course of four days managed to define the term. Apparently, if a business isn't focused entirely on innovation right now, their business is completely ruined and they won't be…




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