As it was the last day of the sales product wasn’t the best thing to look at on this unscheduled visit. I was entranced instead by the interior of the main department store. It really is grandiose. Unlike the UK, France has very tightly controlled sales periods: they start on the same day all over the […]
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10 rules of good design by Dieter Ram
Given that there is so much “design” around, much of it less than wonderful, the views of Dieter Ram, one of the masters of product design, are worth remembering. Good design is … 1. innovative 2. makes a product useful 3. is aesthetic 4. makes a product understandable 5. is unobtrusive 6.is honest 7. is long […]
Multi-tasking is bad for business
In the last few years we’ve all prided ourselves on simultaneously juggling multiple tasks, particularly women (we feel as if we’ve been doing it all our lives). research has now confirmed that it is bad for us and we end up doing many things badly rather than a few things very well. In “My Experimental Life” writer […]