Publications
Books
The Meaning of Business
In light of the economic crisis, companies have a historic opportunity to transform the way they do business and provide customers with more value-rich, sustainable, and meaningful products and services. With this special publication on “The Meaning of Business,” we invited business leaders from various industries and disciplines to explore new, innovative models of value creation.
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Tech Trends 2012
We surveyed frog designers, strategists, and technologists from across the globe to share their favorite tech trends that’ll crop up in 2012. In this booklet, our tech forecasters make their predictions, drawing on their expertise in everything from strategy to design to engineering. Among them: moving beyond the computer interface toward voice and gesture recognition, meaningful hyperconnectivity, and more biomimicry.
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Disrupt
In a business world of nonstop change, there’s only one way to win the game: transform it entirely. This requires a revolution in thinking, a steady stream of disruptive strategies, and unexpected solutions. In Disrupt, Luke Williams shows exactly how to generate those strategies and solutions. He also shows how to combine fluid creativity with analytical rigor in a simple five-stage process for successfully disrupting any market.
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Mobile Money
Funded by the Institute for Money, Technology, and Financial Inclusion at the University of California, Irvine, frog Executive Creative Director Jan Chipchase traveled to Afghanistan in the summer of 2010 to conduct a field study of the nascent mobile-phone-based financial service in the country known as M-Paisa. He presents his findings here.
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Innovation X
With so many companies focusing more intensely than ever on innovation, why are so few seeing results? According to frog Strategy Director Adam Richardson, it's because there are a new set of problems besetting businesses known as X-problems. Innovation X defines these tough new challenges and presents guidelines for how to use them to get back on the path to effective change.
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A Fine Line
A Fine Line: How Design Strategies Are Shaping the Future of Business is frog founder Hartmut Esslinger’s story of the innovation process, from targeting goals to shepherding new products and services to the marketplace. With a unique perspective, rich stories, and a global mind-set, Esslinger explores business solutions that are environmentally sustainable and contribute to an enduring global economy.
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Thoughts on Interaction Design
Thoughts on Interaction Design offers readers new insights into interaction design and the connections between people and technology. Now in its second edition, Jon Kolko's best-selling title builds upon its engaging material aimed at educating designers, helping designers educate business owners, and legitimizing interaction design for businesses.
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Passion
What is the thing that eats the clock as if it didn’t exist—that thing you work at and think about with such pleasure and excitement that it doesn’t feel like work at all? Passion is contagious. But it also has a dark side, and change is not always pretty—not at first. Indeed, there’s a fine line between desire and obsession, between excitement and madness. This issue explores all these ideas and more, while giving a glimpse of what, in fact, frogs are passionate about.
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The Stuff of Life
Life is complex, often messy, and always glorious. It is this “stuff” that we sought to explore in our third annual TEDGlobal special issue. We take a behind-the-scenes look at the annual conference held this year in Edinburgh, Scotland with feature articles, interviews, and photography to explore the conference's theme, The Stuff of Life.
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The Connective Issue
With more devices tapped into the Internet than there are people on Earth, people are now more connected than ever. Issue 14 explores all the ways we come together: from a behind-the-scenes look at how Facebook executes its design strategies to successfully connect hundreds of millions of people online, to in-depth essays on how death, government transparency, and courtship are all being re-defined in the Internet era.
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And Now The Good News
For our second annual TEDGlobal special issue we traveled to Oxford, England, to discover the seeds of optimism sprouting around the world, despite the doom and gloom dominating world headlines. And yes, the future looks bright.
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Work – Life
Gone are the days of the 25-year career. The nine to five work week is a relic. The boundaries between work and life are more blurred than they’ve ever been. Issue 12 explores the precarious balance between work and life, if such a thing still exists.
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The Substance of Things Not Seen
This special issue features articles, photography, and interviews that capture the ideas, conversations, and moments on-stage and off of the 2009 TEDGlobal conference in Oxford, England, dedicated to the theme "The Substance of Things Not Seen."
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Power
Recession has altered the economic landscape, and the social Web continues to challenge conventional hierarchies. Now meaning is more important than materialism. Issue 10 explores new definitions of influence and power. Who has it, and where can you find it?
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Motion
Travel, technology, and ideas—everything moves for different reasons and at different speeds. From Obama’s recent victory in the presidential campaign, to the ailing auto industry, to one person’s struggle with ADHD, Issue 09 explores how we move.
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Numbers
The premiere print issue of design mind explores the typography of numbers with legendary designer Erik Spiekermann, along with a look at slot machines, a new singularity, and the cell phone subscription explosion in China.
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