Archive for January, 2009

BOOK REVIEW: OUT OF POVERTY – What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail

“Ninety percent of the world’s designers spend all their time working on solutions for the richest 10% of the world’s customers. A revolution in design is needed to reverse this ratio and reach the other 90%.”

Paul Polak’s book, OUT OF POVERTY – What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail, chronicling his twenty-five years in alleviating poverty, [...]

Monday, January 26th, 2009

Does Good Design lead to Good Decision-Making? An interview with Aaron Marcus

An interview with Aaron Marcus
How does significant information come to the surface of our attention, present itself in an orderly fashion, and enable us to make good decisions that affect our own lives and that may affect the lives of many others?
Effective personal, community, professional, national, and global decision-making is always there as a challenge.
Anyone’s [...]

Sunday, January 4th, 2009