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Idealism

• Service Design, Idealism

  Lazy iPhone 4 designers

  06.25.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  “Gripping any mobile phone will result in some attenuation of its antenna performance, with certain places being worse than others depending on the placement of the antennas. This is a fact of life for every wireless phone. If you ever experience this on your iPhone 4, avoid gripping it in the lower left corner in […]

• Creativity, Idealism

  Creative leadership in a time of great transition

  01.28.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  I don’t know about you, but some days my little monkey brain has about had enough. Enough change, enough global anxiety, enough information, enough speed of business, enough of being under the fire hose. Then I meet someone who doesn’t even have a cell phone, e-mail, or internet access.
  Sounds like whining, huh? Or a grass […]

• Space, Creativity, Collaboration, Idealism

  February House: Experiments in Communal Living

  09.12.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Imagine W.H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee holed up in an old boarding house in Brooklyn, working as hard and fast as they can to create as much new work as possible before the US enters World War II. Can you imagine the discussions? The arguments? […]

• Collaboration, Idealism

  Brainstorming: only bad if you don’t know what you are doing…

  08.02.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Over the last day or so, there has been some buzz around Marc Andreeson’s post “Brainstorming is a Bad Idea” with Scott Berkun writing a succinct and useful response “In defense of brainstorming.”
  I posted my response by writing “Skills and Practice Make Brainstoring Useful” on Adaptive Path’s blog today.

• Creativity, Idealism

  Cultivate Your Barren Soil

  07.27.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  “While a man, infatuated with the promises of greatness, wastes his hours and days in attendance and solicitation, the honest opportunities of improving his condition pass by without his notice; he neglects to cultivate his own barren soil, because he expects every moment to be placed in regions of spontaneous fertility, and is seldom roused […]

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Cartographies of Imagination, by me, Sarah B. Nelson, is about navigating the world of collaboration, through methods, tools, techniques and ideas. I'll share methods, tools, and ideas to inspire you to draw on the collective wisdom around you. I'm an interaction designer and design strategist at Adaptive Path.

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