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A conversation with Ed Niehaus, new CEO of Cooper
by The Editors
A few weeks ago, Cooper appointed Ed Niehaus as President & CEO. Ed is a Valley veteran, with a rich background is in public relations, branding and business-building. He met Alan when Visual Basic was merely a twinkle in Alan's eye, and since then, Ed has worked with a long... (Continue)
A “to do” list for integrating design into your organization
by Kim Goodwin
The good news: whether it’s thanks to the economy or to the iPhone, more senior executives understand that they need to get some design love. The bad news: Most expect that it will be easy. Most execs who want to integrate design into their organizations (or expand the role of... (Continue)
Each One, Teach One: Get Involved in Mentoring!
by Kim Goodwin
In my closing keynote at Interactions 09, I spoke about some of the challenges facing interaction design as a profession, perhaps the most important of which is a shortage of designers just when the world is starting to demand what we do. Increasing numbers of college and university programs will... (Continue)

The Drawing Board: Our Building's Elevator

by The Editors on October 31, 2008

Here at Cooper, we find that looking at the world from the perspective of users and their goals makes us notice a lot of bad interactions in our daily lives. Being solution-minded designers, we can’t help but pick up a whiteboard marker to scribble out a better idea. (Just ask our partners and friends—we really can’t help ourselves).

This sort of thing makes a fun thought exercise, so we thought we’d share it with you as a series of narrated slide shows we’ve called “The Drawing Board.” These aren’t meant to be slick, highly-produced demos—just some ideas we’ve thrown up on the board to stimulate thought and discussion. So…enjoy. Discuss. Design.



The Drawing Board: Our Building's Elevator on Vimeo.

Filed under: Cooper, Features, Innovation

Comments

On Nov 3, 2008, Tamlyn said:

Even better: build a horizontal shaft to transport the elevator from the 0-21 shaft across to the 21-27 shaft, thereby eliminating the dual elevator problem and being very cool in the process!

On Nov 3, 2008, Jan said:

What a beautiful episode. Thanx a lot! :)
Jan
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