Semester’s over and updates to the blog are overdue

I’ve got 2 days left in my extended interview/mini-internship and I’ve promised myself to write at least 5 new blog posts over the next 10 days. There’s so much I need to capture for myself, including my learnings from this semester, and my anticipation of my next extended interview/mini-internship at GravityTank.

I need to come up with a better name for what I’m doing. I’m not sure Minternship or Exterview will do.

Great article on the design of the Samsung Instinct for Sprint

Parrish, head of the Experience Planning group at Motorola pointed me in the direction of this article on the development of the Samsung Instinct for Sprint. The discussion came about as we were talking about how large companies such as Microsoft, Boeing and Target were using smaller design groups to spur the larger company to take greater chances. The talk then led to the concept of open innovation, which was a topic I had just finished writing a paper on.

Anyway, here’s the link:
http://sender11.typepad.com/sender11/2008/10/design-of-the-s.html