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MBTI INFOGRAPHIC MOVIE

PROJECT MÜ

MÜ is a multimedia installation featuring children fairy tales. MÜ is intended for infant schools (5 – 6 years old kids).The educational purpose of MÜ is the early learning of hearing, musical and creation, through activities that can be played alone or in group.

Three key protagonists :

* Children : From 5 to 7 years old, in infant school. Goals: to interact, to learn, and to dream. To identify oneself to the characters of the tale, in order to better understand it.
* Teachers : Goals: to extend reading and tales experience in an entertaining and concrete manner. To make children discover with their senses.
* Parents : Goals: to reinforce parent’s interest in children’s learning basic skills. To involve oneself and share a story together.

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the Design & Emotion society

the Design & Emotion society raises issues and facilitates dialogue among practitioners, researchers, and industry, in order to integrate salient themes of emotional experience into the design profession. Do vistit the tools & methods section!

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CREATIVE JUICES

Behind the scenes tour of of an award-winning creative farm, juicing process and distribution in South West England.

The South West produces some of the UK's finest creative work (animation, web design, design, fashion, architecture....) Now you know why....nice conditions, space to breathe and opportunities with some of the best firms around.

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Ask Nature

Nature's elegant solutions to building challenges include the Scots pine's adaptive growth, the thorny devil's passive water collection, and a leaf's on-site energy production. AskNature can help you solve your design challenges.

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BRAND MAPPING TOOL - BRANDZEAL

MADE TO STICK - CHIP & DAN HEATH

Six Principles of Sticky Ideas
According to Chip and Dan, there’s six principles that help you craft a sticky message:

* Principle 1. Simplicity
* Principle 2. Unexpectedness
* Principle 3. Concreteness
* Principle 4. Credibility
* Principle 5. Emotions
* Principle 6. Stories

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The most important piece of software for an Industrial Designer

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BEEDOCS: CREATE TIMELINE CHARTS

Knappe tool om je creatief proces of ontwerpproject chronologisch te illustreren. Geen freeware maar wel een free trial...

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IDEO METHOD CARDS

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Interactive TRIZ Matrix & 40 Principles

The TRIZ Matrix is a database of KNOWN SOLUTIONS (principles) able to OVERCOME CONTRADICTIONS.
I.e, You need a static object to be longer without becoming heavier. This is a contradiction. The improving feature is ' #4, length of stationary object ' and the worsening factor is ' #2, weight of stationary object '. Use the matrix to discover possible ways of solutions, the PRINCIPLES.

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MOODSTREAM - GETTY IMAGES

Moodstream is a powerful new brainstorming tool. Looking for something happy? Move the slider. A bit more warmth? Tweak it again. With every adjustment you make, Moodstream delivers a new set of images, footage and music to help take your creative in inspiring, unexpected directions.

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What does design thinking feel like?

Design thinking is different and therefore it feels different.

Firstly it is not only convergent. It is a series of divergent and convergent steps. During divergence we are creating choices and during convergence we are making choices. For people who are looking to have a good sense of the answer, or at least a previous example of one, before they start divergence is frustrating. It almost feels like you are going backwards and getting further away from the answer but this is the essence of creativity. Divergence needs to feel optimistic, exploratory and experimental but it often feels foggy to people who are more used to operating on a plan. Divergence has to be supported by the culture. ...

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GOOGLE SKETCHUP

Google SketchUp is software that you can use to create, modify and share 3D models. It's easier to learn than other 3D modeling programs, which is why so many people are already using it.

We designed SketchUp's simplified toolset, guided drawing system and clean look-and-feel to help you concentrate on two things: getting your work done as efficiently as possible, and having fun while you're doing it.

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RESCUE TIME

RescueTime is a web-based time management and analytics tool for knowledge workers who want to be more productive. The best way to get a sense of how it works is to sign up (for free!). You'll be up and running in a minute or two.

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Interview Sir Ken Robinson on creativity and education

In this interview on AlJazeeraEnglish, former CNN news anchor Riz Khan speaks with world renowned creativity and education expert Sir Ken Robinson who strongly believes the current state of education may begin holistically but progressively focuses "on the head, and then just to one side."

Aviary - Creative Applications

Aviary is a suite of powerful creative applications that you can use right in your web browser. It's also a community of friendly artists to share and collaborate with. Aviary is Trustware. They allow you full access to the tools, but trust you to pay for them.

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ADOBE PHOTOSHOP EXPRESS

Photoshop Express is a powerful image editing tool. Quickly upload photos and crop, rotate or add effects on the fly. With 2GB of free storage, this is a great solution for photo editing on the go.

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STICKY NOTE EXPERIMENT - EEPYBIRD

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ffffound - image bookmarking

FFFFOUND! is a web service that not only allows the users to post and share their favorite images found on the web, but also dynamically recommends each user's tastes and interests for an inspirational image-bookmarking experience!!

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SEE THE WORDS

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DESIGN INSITE - TU DENMARK

Design inSite is the Designer's guide to manufacturing. Various manufacturing processes and materials are described as well as the products where they are used. The purpose of Design inSite is to inspire designers in their designwork to consider materials and processes which are new or unknown to them. By being aware of the new possibilities already in an early stage of the development process new and innovative products will emerge.

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DINBELG

This site is the result of the research project "DINBelg 2005". The aim is to gather up-to-date anthropometric dimensions of the Belgian population.

The human body dimensions are useful for designers of products, interiors or buildings,... The ergonomists can also use these data when designing or evaluating work places.

To enhance the user-friendliness of the dimensions, 433 students of the Flemish design schools were questioned by means of a written questionnaire. It was asked how the students use anthropometry nowadays and what they would suggest for improvement.

The navigation on the left will help you further to concrete dimensions or extra information about the calculations.

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IDEMAT - TU DELFT

What is IDEMAT?

IDEMAT is a powerful tool for material selections in the design process. IDEMAT provides a database with technical information about materials, processes and components in words, numbers and graphics, and puts emphasis on environmental information. With IDEMAT you can lookup and compare information about materials, processes or components and you also can let IDEMAT search for materials that match your criteria.

IDEMAT is available in two editions: a student edition and a professional edition. Both editions have equal contents but the professional edition is equipped with an edit module for complementary information to be added by the user. The professional edition also offers the possibility to make custom graphs, all properties and environmental indicators can be selected as units for x and y axis while the student edition is limited to price and Eco-indicator 95.

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Designing with your users

Human Centered Design

David Lynch on Ideas

The future of design is human-centered

Low-key and thoughtful, IDEO founder David Kelley seems the antithesis of the "design star" -- and indeed, he says that product design, within the past two decades, has become much less about the design and more about the user who'll be experiencing it. In this classic 2002 talk, he shares some video of products coming out of IDEO, including Prada's famous high-tech dressing rooms, "Dilbert's ultimate cubicle," and a gotta-have-it gadget called Spyfish. He finishes by discussing a project he's passionate about: ApproTEC -- now called KickStart -- offering designs that give Kenyans the means to end poverty.

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7 ideas: convergentietoolbox

"Honderden ideeën na een brainstorm. Maar hoe zoek je de pareltjes of het meest veelbelovende idee. Vaak gaat alle aandacht (en fun) naar de divergerende fase. Maar slim convergeren maakt vaak het verschil. In deze 7 ideas een toolbox om ideeën te selecteren. Zowel convergentie-technieken als algemene criteria om een idee op te beoordelen.

Enjoy,

Marc Heleven"

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Mobility Vision Integration Process

The Mobility Vision Integration Process (mVIP) investigates ways that expert designers can support and accelerate dialog about the future of sustainable mobility. These mVIP cards are an experimental tool that supports rapid future scenario development on the topic of sustainable mobility so that groups and individuals can quickly enter a dialog and brainstorm about possible outcomes, solutions and strategies. The deck contains 109 cards in 11 categories and is also available as an online brainstorming tool. Game and tool developed by the Art Center College of Design.

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Design skills

Although many designers are multi-disciplined, design is divided into different practices. This separation necessitates collaboration and interaction.

While we can use words, designers also use an array of additional tools in order to develop, communicate and implement their design ideas.

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FROM CENTRE POMPIDOU TO AIR MAX

Just found this video on youtube about the inspiration for Nike's revolutionary Air Max 1s (you know, the shoes with the air cushion you can see). Turns out, it all started with a trip to the art museum.

"When you sit down to design something--and it can be anything: a car, a toaster, a house, a tall building, a shoe--what you design is a culmination of everything you've seen and done in you life up to that point."

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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC - GALLERY

Dive into the national geographic gallery, those of you looking for form or color inspiration are bound to find something. Making moodboards with the life in color series is a pleasure. [Ph: by Ingo Arndt]

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FLOKOON - FOTALIA APPLICATION

An(other) online visual search interface that represents search results for music, videos & images queries by a network-like diagram. results appear alongside related items, which can then be further refined.

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DOODLE: EASY SCHEDULING

Plan een activiteit zoals een vergadering, een zakenlunch, een conference call, een familiebijeenkomst, een filmavondje, of eender welke andere groepsactiviteit. Maak een keuze tussen films, menu's, reisbestemmingen, of tussen eender welke andere opties.

Hoe werkt Doodle?

1. Maak een peiling aan.

2. Stuur de link naar de peiling door naar de deelnemers.

3. Volg online hoe de deelnemers stemmen.

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CREATIVE COMMONS

Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."

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PLAY RETHINK - ECO DESIGN GAME

Have you ever wondered how to make everyday objects and services more environmentally and socially friendly?

Then you should 'play rethink' and join our network of creative individuals. You can register, upload and share your projects with the 'play rethink' network.

And if you've played rethink, you're a rethinker. This site will help you to:

* share and develop your ideas
* be inspired by other projects
* be featured in the 'project of the month' competition
* showcase your concepts to potential employers (coming soon!)

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WORDLE - TAGCLOUD TOOL

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

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Nintendo DS Cooking Guide

Zoek en vind recepten op basis van het aantal calorieën, de specifieke kookmethode, de bereidingstijd en meer! Compleet met handige boodschappenlijstfunctie, rekenmachine en keukenklok, is Cooking Guide alles watje nodig hebt voor je culinaire creaties.

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IAF Method Database

This site is dedicated to providing managers, team leaders, and facilitators with online and face-to-face tools for creating, leading and following up group meetings.

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The Visual Dictionary

The Visual Dictionary is designed to help you find the right word at a glance. Filled with stunning illustrations labeled with accurate terminology in up to six languages, it is the ideal language-learning and vocabulary dictionary for use at school, at home or at work.

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VIEWZI - VISUAL SEARCH

An adaptive visual search website that is able to radically change in both appearance and function depending on the search term. Viewzi consists about 16 different views, including a “3D Photo Cloud”, “Album View”, "Celebrity Photo View" & a “Weather View”. each view draws results from different sources, ranging from Amazon to Weather.com.

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Creative Economy Report 2008

The Creative Economy Report 2008 is the first comprehensive study to present the United Nations perspective on this emerging topic. it presents a policy-oriented analysis intended to facilitate a better understanding of the key issues underlying the emerging creative economy at national and international levels.

The Report includes contributions and concerns from five United Nations organizations, namely UNCTAD, UNDP Special unit for South-South Cooperation, UNESCO, WIPO and the International Trade Centre (ITC), in a joint endeavour to enhance policy coherence and international action in this area.

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HOW IT FEELS TO HAVE A STROKE - JILL BOLTE

Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.

TAGGALAXY

a space galaxy like representation of the relationships between tags on flickr. the initial tag is illustrated as a star, surrounded by “planets” that represent the complementary tags. drilling down to that sphere creates another galaxy cluster centered with a star made from the combination of tags, & more orbiting planets. selected stars morph into a image collection globe.

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Yves Behar - Creating objects that tell stories

AN INTRODUCTION INTO VISUAL THINKING

EVERNOTE

Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at anytime, from anywhere.

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DOODLE

Plan online een activiteit… zoals een vergadering, een zakenlunch, een conference call, een familiebijeenkomst, een filmavondje, of eender welke andere groepsactiviteit.

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TIPS FOR MANAGING A CREATIVE ENVIRONMENT

CREATIVEMINDS

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AltsR.US - top alternative search engines list

AltsR.Us is a list of the best alternative search engines arranged by popularity. The popularity rank is updated on a weekly basis by using the data from Compete.com and Alexa.com.

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BRAND TAGS

“The basic idea of this site is that a brand exists entirely in people’s heads. Therefore, whatever it is they say a brand is, is what it is… A collective experiment in brand perception. All tags are generated by people like you and do not reflect the opinions of the site owner or anyone else he knows. Have fun.”

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Amy Tan: Where does creativity hide?

Novelist Amy Tan digs deep into the creative process, journeying through her childhood and family history and into the worlds of physics and chance, looking for hints of where her own creativity comes from. It's a wild ride with a surprise ending.

HERMANN BRAIN DOMINANCE

The Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI) is a system claimed to measure and describe thinking preferences in people, developed by William "Ned" Herrmann.

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Read more on the theory behind the HBDI®.

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INFORMATION DESIGN PATTERNS

“This application prototype is part of the Master thesis ‘The Form of Facts and Figures,’ developed by Christian Behrens in the Interface Design program at Potsdam University of Applied Sciences. Its goal is the development of of a design pattern taxonomy for the field of data visualization and information design.”

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COLOR PICKR - FLICKR

A very useful tool for picking pics all matching in tint

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KILLER INNOVATIONS - PHILIP MCKINNEY

THINK / DRAW / MAKE

Lest We Forget…
Frustrated at seeing designers:

* draw & make but don’t think
* think & draw but don’t make
* think & make but don’t draw

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COLORJACK

Creative professionals daily delve into the world of Color. Color is powerful, it affects us all in countless ways. ColorJack’s tools help us choose the right colors for websites, print jobs, or any design project.

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Patrick's MBTI® Naslagwerk

Vindt informatie op de volgende manieren:

• 4 Dimensies (4D) - EI SN TF JP
• 8 Voorkeuren (8P) - E I S N T F J P
• 4 Functies (4F) - Se Si Ne Ni Te Ti Fe Fi
• 16 Types (16)

Of met behulp van de verschillende lenzen:

• Vier attitudes (4A) (IJ / IP / EJ / EP)
• Vier kwadranten (4K) (IS / IN / ES / EN)
• Vier functieparen (4P) (ST / SF / NF / NT)
• Vier temperamenten (4T) (SJ / SP / NF / NT)

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THE FUTURE OF ADVERTISING - PAUL ISAKSON

PICTURE TO LEARN

If a picture is worth a thousand words, perhaps drawing and visualizing can help science students understand more than they get from their textbooks.

MIT research scientist and science photographer Felice Frankel is exploring this idea through "Picturing to Learn," an educational technique that is being tested at MIT.

Picturing to Learn is creating a data base of over 4000 drawings from various science undergraduate courses. Students are asked to respond to a homework question by creating a visual explanation whose purpose is to teach a high school senior about that particular phenomenon. They are also asked to "evaluate" their own drawings.

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ALLE TESTS OVER... - 123TEST

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