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How To Make Innovative Ideas Happen

From Robert Hartland
October 22nd, 2010
58 Comments

In one of his recent presentations, Frans Johansson explained why groundbreaking innovators generate and execute far more ideas than their counterparts. After watching his presentation The Secret Truth About Executing Great Ideas, my thoughts began to surface about how meaningful the presentation was regardless of a persons industry, culture, field ...

Five Tips For Making Ideas Happen

From Scott Belsky
April 21st, 2010
118 Comments

Creative types have a problem. We have so many great ideas, but most of them never see the light of day. Why do most ideas never happen? The reason is that our own creative habits get in the way. For example, our tendency to generate new ideas often gets in ...

Behind the Design: 5 Stories of Great Inspiration

From Torley Wong
October 1st, 2008
41 Comments

We grow our creative talents through experience: whether it’s learning from a veteran designer about how things came to be or finding fresh delight in Smashing Magazine posts, no great artist exists without inspiration. Famously declared in reference to scientific progress: “If I have seen further it is by standing ...

Executing Our Ideas: It’s In the Details

From Guest Author
August 15th, 2008
31 Comments

When designing for the Web, how important is it to begin with a brilliant idea for a web-site? Can a quality site be built if the underlying concept is weak? And what happens to a brilliant idea if its execution is less-than amazing? Many hold that execution is a secondory factor ...

Design and Independence

From Guest Author
August 11th, 2008
77 Comments

Designers are independent. In work, mindset and lifestyle. Yet in this Web age aren’t we losing independence? For most designers the first tool to start designing from is the Adobe suite, a quite impressive set of tools that help us to make our work easier. But don’t we rely too ...

25 Mind-Blowing Gadgets

From Vitaly Friedman
February 18th, 2008
86 Comments

Few weeks ago we’ve presented a number of innovative gadgets, devices, designs and concepts. Unless explicitly specified, none of them has been officially released or produced yet, and none of them is currently available for end-users. But what about existing products? What about innovative designs which are already available in ...

15 Stunning Cutting-Edge Gadgets and Technologies

From Vitaly Friedman
February 4th, 2008
38 Comments

We live in a spectacular time. The pace of technology steadily increases, new fields of science are heavily explored and innovative concepts emerge almost every day, resulting in stunning and overwhelming products. The impact of these products can be tremendous: in fact, new technology can completely revolutionize the way we ...

Innovative Designs and Devices

From Vitaly Friedman
January 7th, 2008
85 Comments

Steve Jobs stated once that the “design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” While this statement has proven to be crucial over thousands of years, one shouldn’t misinterpret it by emphasizing the functionality despite the design. When it comes to product ...