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The Future of Work is All About (Democratic) Design

You can’t open a business magazine these days and not see someone talking about how important design is.
The conversation is typically about designing better products in order to provide a good design “experience” for the consumer, ideally solving a problem while resonating with the user emotionally. The iPod is now the archetype of great design. [...]

Inside the WorldBlu List 2007: Continuum and the First WorldBlu Council Meeting

One of the companies on the WorldBlu List of Most Democratic Workplaces 2007 is Continuum, a Boston-based innovation and design consultancy. This past spring they were featured in an article entitled, “Democratic Principles Making Business More Transparent,” which appeared in the Christian Science Monitor.
Last Thursday and Friday, November 1-2, we had our first WorldBlu [...]

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