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After record amounts of snow this year in Philadelphia, you could be excused for not wanting to see any more of it. But today's snow actually brought us some pretty cool ideas for public spaces and traffic safety improvements along E. Passyunk Avenue in South Philly.

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Creativity Becomes an Academic Discipline

Once considered the product of genius or divine inspiration, creativity — the ability to spot problems and devise smart solutions — is being recast as a teachable skill.

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Design thinking for social issues

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Apple Skeuomorphism Reconstructed In 3-D

"USING PAPER MODELS A TEAM OF ANIMATION STUDENTS CREATES AN ELEGANT CRITIQUE OF APPLE'S IOS. META!"

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How Google Taught Itself Good Design

Google and the shift to beautiful, invisible design

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Solving Problems The Square Way

How Square emphasizes design and engineering to deliver a human centered product.

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Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling--Visualized

The rules of storytelling, according to Pixar!

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Little Devices @ MIT

Affordable Health | Medical Technology | DIY Innovation The Little Devices group at MIT develops empowerment technologies for health. We believe that innovation and design happens at the frontline of healthcare where providers and patients can invent everyday technologies to improve outcomes.

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MakerNurse

Nurses are fabricating solutions to challenges on the front lines of care every day. MakerNurse aims to better understand what drives nurses to innovate and bring nurse making to the forefront of health care.

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Computers are the bicycle of the mind.

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What is Growth Hacking? - Powered by Crunched

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The Next Big Thing You Missed: Why the Most Ambitious of Tech Startups Should Fail Slowly | Wired Business | Wired.com

Fail slowly? Sounds counter-intuitive to the start up culture, but Ceglowski is on to something interesting. 

Big take away from the article, rethink your motivators. "Your life and ideas are far more valuable than the money you’re chasing."

Another cool idea - be a cheap venture capitalist. "Earlier this year, Ceglowski launched the Pinboard Co-Prosperity Cloud, a “fund” that allocated $37 to six winners, including a home-gardening site, a marketplace for home-baked goods, and a forecasting tool for sailors. The idea was that advice, endorsement, and publicity are all you really need to launch a web business if you’re careful with your money — and spend it slowly."

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An early (first?) look into what really matters in design. The experience.