Design Studio in Practice

This week I brought together our client partners and internal team for a day of collaborative thinking focused around two of the main design challenges for the client’s product. People from a myriad of disciplines – marketing, design, technology, product management and strategy – gathered around the table in teams...

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Defining the Design Studio Process

Concept One: Brainstorming +

Brainstorming is a collective creative process of speculation. Its goal is to use diverse talent, expertise and points of view to generate many ideas around a problem or project. One of the key rules of brainstorming is withholding all criticism, reserving it for a later...

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Getting Drupal Running on Amazon EC2

This is for me. This could also be for you. That’s why I’m posting it.

I needed to get a fully functioning Drupal installation running on a Free Amazon EC2 cloud instance. I had to pull in multiple websites in order to do it. Interspersed are some bits of wisdom...

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