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When clients have unrealistic goals, how do you bring them back to reality without convincing them to take their business elsewhere?
“We want to be on the Today show!” That was the response Jennon Bell Hoffmann heard when she asked some new clients what their goals were for their project, an educational video series that needed to crowdsource funding.
The 13 Inspiring Winners Of Our 2015 Innovation By Design Awards
In the eyes of our esteemed judges, these projects represent the year’s best design.
After hundreds of hours mulling over the best design work in the world, Fast Company is proud to announce the winners of this year’s Innovation by Design Awards. This year’s entries were as strong as we’ve ever seen, with over 1,500 projects from across the globe. In the eyes of our esteemed judges, the projects you’ll find below were the best of the best. There were only 13 winners anointed in the entire competition. Each of them represent what’s best about design today: Big ideas, meticulously thought out details, and a clear viewpoint about how we live now—and how it could be better.
What’s In A Refugee’s Bag? See What People Carry As They Flee
Heartbreaking photos of the things people take when they have nothing left.
When Iqbal, a 17-year-old, fled the fighting in Afghanistan, he took a single bag. One change of clothes, $100, some Turkish lira, and SIM cards for Afghanistan, Iran, and Turkey. A comb, a few bandages. He also brought face whitening cream and hair gel.
The 2015 Innovation By Design Awards: 3-D Printing
From amazing new bricks to designs that help people walk again, here’s what changed the world in 3-D printing in 2015.
This year, Fast Company gave 3-D Printing it’s own category in the Innovation By Design Awards, to recognize all the ferment in the industry. The finalists and winner below all use 3-D printing to rethink major categories, from the way our buildings are constructed to the way movies are made. Congratulations to everyone, and a big thank you to our judges: Andrew Dent, vice president of materials research at Material ConneXion; Bre Pettis, cofounder of MakerBot and founder of Bold Machines; and Bradford Shellhammer, founder and CEO of Bazar. And finally, a sincere thank you to everyone who entered and supported Fast Company‘s commitment to elevating the design profession.
20 Lessons Of Design
Once upon a time, design was considered unimportant among most top business leaders, a secondary realm prowled by precious egotists and aesthetes.
At best, design was an afterthought, like slapping a coat of paint on an already-built house or adding a cool tail fin to a finished product.
The 2015 Innovation By Design Awards Winners: Experience
From making flights tolerable to modernizing the museum, here are 2015’s best examples of experience design.
Good design goes beyond the simple act of imbuing a product with visual beauty or perfect functionality. It’s also about making someone feel satisfaction, excitement, or comfort while interacting with it. That’s where experience design comes in, and this year’s finalists and winner exemplify this facet by updating the museum visit for the 21st century, making your flight less miserable, or making it easier to navigate through complicated spaces. Congratulations to all, and many thanks to our judges: Dan Gardner, cofounder of Code and Theory; Mauro Porcini, SVP and chief design officer of PepsiCo; and Kevin Young, SVP of product experience at Continuum. And finally, a sincere thank you to everyone who entered and supported Fast Company‘s commitment to elevating the design profession.
The “Sharing Economy” Is Dead, And We Killed It
Five years ago, everybody was excited about the idea of using tech to borrow things like power drills. In practice, though, not so much.
“How many of you own a power drill?” Rachel Botsman, the author of the book The Rise Of Collaborative Consumption, asked the audience at TedxSydney in 2010. Predictably, nearly everyone raised his or her hand. “That power drill will be used around 12 to 15 minutes in its entire lifetime,” Botsman continued with mock exasperation. “It’s kind of ridiculous, isn’t it? Because what you need is the hole, not the drill.”
How To Avoid Getting Hacked At The ATM
Data breaches at ATMs are at a 20-year high. Here’s what you can do to protect yourself—and your money.
We’ve heard the warnings for years now to avoid sketchy ATMs, yet folks continue to withdraw from hacked ATMs and later watch helplessly as money drains from their accounts.
5 Huge Misconceptions About Startup Life, Revealed In Private Email
A (former) Silicon Valley entrepreneur and mother explodes some of the myths about “having it all” by combing through old email and IMs.
When news of Hillary Clinton’s email trouble broke, I felt queasy, but not with worry over national security or doubts about the woman who might end up running our country. No, my instant concern was much more visceral and self-centered: What if that had happened to me while I was running a company?
