Interesting Articles from Design Sojourn

Sometime back, during a discussion about creativity, molly-coddling and entrepreneurial education, we encountered an interesting blog named Design Sojourn, and we will like to showcase some of his interesting articles here in SG Entrepreneurs this week.

Design Translator (DT) is currently living in Singapore, and his passion is to educate the masses in design. He sees, knows and learns about design into a language that the man on the street can understand. He is a design manager for an electronics company in the day, and he blogs and takes care of his family in the night. So, he realises that there are many blogs and websites that talk about design or showcasing the new new, but nothing on how the budding designer can lean to rule the world. He started to present this in an easy to read but nonsensical non-boring way through his blog Design Sojourn.

Among his articles, we would like to feature a few interesting articles: Can you measure the success of your designs or ideas?, Patents: Everybody is doing it, why not we? and $100 Laptop Prototype.

The first article discusses about how we quantify the success of a design. DT offers his view on this issue in the article:

Combining the two instances together we actually cover all aspects of this act of “measuring” design. The first way is by methods in selecting the right design in the concept phase that allows for quantifying within the corporate environment. The second method, as highlighted by the blog, checks to see if the designs have been successful outside of the corporate environment after it is launched.

In the second article it describes his take on patents, and he demonstrated with a good example about the use of patents in a corporate setting. Finally, in the last article, we hear about the current development of a $100 laptop that is running on Linux, an open source and free software developed in MIT. This laptop has defied many critics including Bill Gates that it is going to help to educate students in the developing countries living in poverty.

Hope that you enjoy DT’s design entrepreneurship articles and we will be inviting him to contribute to us sometime soon.

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