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Thinking of Design: The Power of First Impressions
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Observations and conversation about the art and engineering of design and Design Thinking in particular. Other things of interest. Thursday, April 3, 2014. The Power of First Impressions. Lately, I've been researching and reflecting on the history of design and Design Thinking in particular. While doing that, I've often found it necessary to reframe my verbal and visual vocabulary in order to understand someone else's points of view about what they think is and isn't Design Thinking. First, their composi...
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Thinking of Design: December 2015
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Observations and conversation about the art and engineering of design and Design Thinking in particular. Other things of interest. Monday, December 21, 2015. Balancing Brains and Teams. Tony Buzan's classic Use Both Sides of Your Brain. Two recent articles, one in FastCompany; 4 Tips to Master Thinking with Both Side of Your Brain and Boot Creativity. And the other from the National Institutes of Heath; The Neural Basis of Optimism and Pessimism. NIH; "Like all other human experiences, the basic mental a...
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Thinking of Design: April 2016
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Observations and conversation about the art and engineering of design and Design Thinking in particular. Other things of interest. Saturday, April 30, 2016. How does the Navy train these young men and women, some barely out of high school, to operate safely and effectively on this floating warrior city? The answer is Crew Resource Management and a rolling wave of training. Notice the number of people involved. At first it looks like they are just milling around. In this launch sequence there are ...Watch...
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Thinking of Design: Interviewing with Empathy
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Observations and conversation about the art and engineering of design and Design Thinking in particular. Other things of interest. Tuesday, September 16, 2014. Interviewing with Empathy can be one of the more challenging Design Thinking skills to learn. One method is to observe someone else who knows how to do it, but I recently came across the web page of an organization that appears to have been polishing their empathic listening skills since the 1960's. The Center for Nonviolent Communication. In that...
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Reflections on Walt Disney: Three Favorite Walts
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Walt Disney the man and the things which made him one of the most remarkable and creative individuals of the 20th Century. Other things of intetest. Monday, September 26, 2016. Among the hundreds of images of Walt Disney there are three which are my personal favorites because of the way they portray him. The first is a young Walt, laying on his stomach, holding a camera, smiling. Of course, for casual, it's hard to top Walt in a hammock, but not at work. September 27, 2016 at 8:13 AM. Dont be nervous Mr&...
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Reflections on Walt Disney: That "Nervous Breakdown" thing.
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Walt Disney the man and the things which made him one of the most remarkable and creative individuals of the 20th Century. Other things of intetest. Monday, April 28, 2014. That "Nervous Breakdown" thing. Don't be nervous Mr. Disney. They only cost $186,000 each. One of the less explored areas of Walt's life are the three times which he spoke of reaching the end of his rope. The first was in 1931, the same year that Mickey Mouse was born. His description of the event is a bit stoic:. A review of Walt's p...
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Reflections on Walt Disney: Practically Perfect and Probably Painful in Every Way
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Walt Disney the man and the things which made him one of the most remarkable and creative individuals of the 20th Century. Other things of intetest. Saturday, April 26, 2014. Practically Perfect and Probably Painful in Every Way. When I was a boy, my family would pile into the car and head out to visit our Missouri cousins in the summer, so when I read about Walt's boyhood on the farm, its very easy for me to imagine what it was like for him. All my aunts and uncles were farmers, who ate their big me...
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Reflections on Walt Disney: Disneys in Florida?
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Walt Disney the man and the things which made him one of the most remarkable and creative individuals of the 20th Century. Other things of intetest. Friday, August 26, 2016. Flora and Elias Disney. Elias Disney's Petition for Citizenship. Today, Paisley Florida is a census-designated place. In Lake County with a population of about 700. While it is part of the Orlando. Metropolitan Statistical Area,. Paisley has never been much more than a wide spot in the road, currently near where. Lake County Road 42.
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Reflections on Walt Disney: August 2016
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Walt Disney the man and the things which made him one of the most remarkable and creative individuals of the 20th Century. Other things of intetest. Tuesday, August 30, 2016. A Billion Fearless Dollars. That will be all. "Don't cause any further public disturbances.". The smiles all around were contagious. At this point I had two types of moisture running down my face and it wasn't raining. I can't even imagine how hot and humid it must have been inside those Storm Trooper suits. That's what Disney does;...
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Reflections on Walt Disney: Patently and Exclusively Walt
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Walt Disney the man and the things which made him one of the most remarkable and creative individuals of the 20th Century. Other things of intetest. Saturday, December 3, 2016. Patently and Exclusively Walt. Between May 26, 1931 and November 25, 1958 the US Patent and Trademark Office awarded Walter Elias Disney eight patents, each of which expresses an element of Walt's vision for the company and the park that bears his name, starting with an ornamental design for the toy figure of a mouse. This inventi...