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Does Democracy Kill Freedom, When It Comes To Design?
I was drinking coffee at a rickety table in a cafe in Madrid yesterday — there are so many different, small cafés scattered across the city — and I realized that it was difficult to do this in the U.S....
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In Pursuit Of The Perfect, We’re Overdesigning Our Lives
Looking into the refrigerator in a home in Lima, Peru I realized that I didn’t recognize anything. Nothing was labeled: there were no brands. Different types of food were arrayed on plates or in bags....
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In Pursuit Of The Perfect, We’re Overdesigning Our Lives
Looking into the refrigerator in a home in Lima, Peru I realized that I didn’t recognize anything. Nothing was labeled: there were no brands. Different types of food were arrayed on plates or in bags....
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What We’ve Lost With Anonymous Designs Like The Kindle
Emily Dickinson is disturbing me. It seems that whenever I pick up my Kindle, there she is staring back at me. And when I think of the thousands of other readers with the identical Kindle and the...
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What We’ve Lost With Anonymous Designs Like The Kindle
Emily Dickinson is disturbing me. It seems that whenever I pick up my Kindle, there she is staring back at me. And when I think of the thousands of other readers with the identical Kindle and the...
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One Way to Innovate: TedxOrangeCoast
Goals, Passions, Contradictions and Old Clothes - Harry West talks about innovation at TedxOrangeCoast.
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Design Makes Social Change: Commerce A Powerful Leverage For Social Innovation
“Harry West, designer and CEO of Continuum, an innovation consultancy company with offices around the world, explains why commerce is a very powerful leverage when we speak about social innovation. For...
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You Can’t Find the Future in the Archives
This interview with Harry West, chief executive of Continuum, an innovation design consulting firm, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. Q. What were some early influences on your leadership...
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Three Rules For Innovation Teams
Our business at Continuum is design and innovation (if you’ve used a Swiffer or pushed a new Target shopping cart, you’ve encountered us), so naturally we are always looking for ways to innovate how we...
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Innovating In The Scary Zone
Sometimes when I am reviewing the work of our innovation groups I see how hard they tried to be innovative, and, as a result, completely missed the point. If innovation is the creation and delivery of...
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What’s Happening in Innovation
Innovation in Boston is special. At Continuum we work around the world in hubs of innovation: Boston, Los Angeles, Milan, New York, Seoul, and Shanghai; but Boston has a very particular take on...
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Literacy a Hidden Hurdle to Financial Inclusion
Literacy is often a hidden hurdle to bringing financial inclusion to the unbanked. Systems that should work in theory break down when poor people are unable to learn how to use them or are unable to...
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Working with The Poorest Women in Pakistan
We recently completed a project for CGAP that used applied product innovation techniques to finding ways to help government-to-person (G2P) beneficiaries in Pakistan. The insights from this research...
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