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Change Your Life with Design Thinking

This-column-will-change-y-007This is a link to a nice article from Saturday's Guardian on how Design Thinking can improve your quality of life.  The article describes design thinking as "thinking that focuses on creating better things, while analytical thinking, which is standard in business, is choosing between things".  I don't think this quite right, as creating better things clearly involves a process of choosing somewhere along the line.  But the empahsis, indeed, is on creating things.  The concept of 'life kerning' is also an interesting one and the subject of a recent book (see link below).

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Life Kerning: Creative Ways to Fine Tune your Perspective on Career or Life

Posted by on December 04, 2011 |

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Custom Logo Design

Hmm! Nice and such a interesting article post related to design.

Posted by: Custom Logo Design | December 09, 2011 at 07:57 AM

rc helicopter

Impressive blog! -Arron

Posted by: rc helicopter | December 21, 2011 at 10:14 AM

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