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Designs of the Week: Kitchen Design
By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy. What are the necessities of your kitchen? Now that our eating habits have gone from picking fresh vegetables outside the window to making sure our freezers are filled with microwavable meals, we were curious how today’s modern
Redesign That: Online Personal Finance (Part 2)
By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy. Last week, we proposed that money management websites (e.g. Quicken) could use a serious design overhaul. To start that design process, we’ll take a sweep of the market landscape. This week we’re reviewing three popular websites: Mint,
Designs of the Week: Political Campaign Posters
Although the US presidential election has come and gone, after seeing graphic artist and illustrator Shepard Fairey’s recent Obama “Hope” posters, we became curious about how past presidents portrayed themselves through the graphic design of their posters.
Redesign That: Online Personal Finance (Part 1)
By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy. Redesign That: Personal Finance 3.0 Seeing as how many of us are trying to put a lockdown on our spending this year, we decided to take a broad look across personal money management websites, evaluate their pros
Designs of the Week: Simplicity
By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy. Does anyone else feel as though things are way more complicated than they have to be? After we read John Maeda’s book ‘Laws of Simplicity’, he quickly became one our heroes as an advocate for simple design.
Design That Moves Business: What exactly is “customer-centric”?
By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy. Everyone claims to take a “customer-centric” approach to business these days. You may have even heard more people using the terms “design research” or “strategic research.” Such an approach has been used to validate the work of
Designs of the Week: Organic Furniture Design
By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy. It is only in the past 30 years or so that organic design has only been able to be manufactured industrially, making it available on the mass market. In design, the term “organic” relates to curves and
Designs of the Week: Redesigning the Wine Experience
By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy. The experience of drinking wine holds all the allure of history, science and nature poured into one glass. While we will always appreciate classic and traditional approaches to wine drinking, we’ve found people redesigning the modern-day wine
