ID Strategy Conference 2007

Thank You

In addition to all of the wonderful speakers from the conference, we wanted to thank the many other participants who added their gems to our discussion:

Paola Antonelli
Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art

Bob Baxley
Designer, Author, Making The Web Work

Michael Bierut
Partner, Pentagram

Lili Cheng
Director of Windows User Experience, Microsoft Research

Rob Forbes
Founder, Design Within Reach                            

Jason Fried
Co-founder, 37Signals

Ric Grefé
Executive Director, AIGA

Stanley Hainsworth
Global Creative Director, Starbucks Coffee Company

Ryan Jacoby
Business Factors Consultant, IDEO

William J. Mitchell
Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences, MIT

Noreen Morioka
Adams Morioka

Nicholas Negroponte
Founder and Chairman, One Laptop Per Child

Shailesh Rao
Executive Editor, Surface Magazine

Diego Rodriguez
Professor, Stanford d.school & Business Factors Consultant, IDEO

Stefan Sagmeister
Sagmeister, Inc.

Gong Szeto
Director of Product Design, PEAK6/ OptionsHouse, Inc.

Keith Yamashita
Co-founder and Principal, Stone Yamashita Partners

 

— John Maeda + Becky Bermont
Associate Director of Research + Co-Head of Research Strategy
MIT Media Lab

 

Golden Arches Say Goodbye

En route to the airport, the golden arches bid us all adieu.

Nicholas Negroponte

Does good design have to be innovative?
Creativity comes from differences. The best design strategy for almost anything is to explore differences.

— Nicholas Negroponte, Founder and Chairman, One Laptop Per Child

 

Etienne Fang

Etienne Fang of Cheskin has been to the ID conference three times. Coming multiple times is the certainly the ultimate compliment to Chef Whitney for sure.

 

Spk: Christopher Meyer

"[that this year at the Strategy conference], the whining is gone, and there's eagerness to engage".
— Christopher Meyer, CEO, Monitor Networks

All the way from the UK

My buddy Nico Macdonald is here! What I would give for a British accent ...

Mysterious Notebook

Becky took this photo in the darkness of the auditorium. Who is this mysterious person with perfect handwriting and diagramming skills?

Spk: Josephine Green

"Question whether higher standard of living still equates with higher quality of life"
— Josephine Green, Senior Director of Trends and Strategy, Philips Design

Spk: Connie Duckworth

"You've got a great space somewhere in your house that could use an Arzu rug!"
— Connie Duckworth, President and Chairman, Arzu, Inc.

Editor's note: I was deeply inspired by Connie. Elect Connie Duckworth for President of the US!

Paola Antonelli

Does good design have to be innovative?
Absoluntely not!  There is a whole tradition of great designers humbly improving and perfecting objects that already existed. So much of Scandinavian 20th century design was based on it, and Castiglioni used to teach a whole class on the redesign of pre-existing objects. It takes a pretty self-assured designer to do that, though.

— Paola Antonelli, Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art