Quiche Industries

Half-Baked Product

A fable about ovens, founders, and the second-highest priority that never gets done.

SimpleBits®

A tiny type foundry, goods shop, and design studio made by Dan Cederholm.

Quiche Browser — Beautifully customizable web browser

An independent, private, and transparent browser built by a passionate maker. Thoughtfully designed customization options and quality-of-life improvements without sacrificing ease of use. Established browsers can’t compare.

Perhaps Inc. | Faces

A company building AI-native products

Mini-Conference on Open Source, AI and Entrepreneurship · Luma

Co-create the Future Now Join us at our Mini-Conference on Open Source, AI and Entrepreneurship. Connect with thought leaders, innovators, founders, investors,…

the quintal is open

Introducing quintal: a collective blogging platform on atproto, no algorithm, no metrics, one axolotl mascot. The small internet I always wanted to live in.

Build the thing you wish to see in the world

For most of my career, I've been confusing building products with building businesses—and that confusion kept me from pursuing a lot of ideas. Two weeks off helped me realize that not everything needs to be a startup, and some of the best things we build are the ones we build just because we want them to exist.

Technology without Industry

A home for poorly researched ideas that I find myself repeating a lot anyway

Portfolio of Work | Nivedha Nirmal

A curated mix of brand identities, digital design, and experiments - crafted with clarity and taste, reflecting my approach to design.

Design Thinking

In the past, design has most often occurred fairly far downstream in the development process and has focused on making new products aesthetically attractive or enhancing brand perception through smart, evocative advertising. Today, as innovation’s terrain expands to encompass human-centered processes and services as well as products, companies are asking designers to create ideas rather than to simply dress them up. Brown, the CEO and president of the innovation and design firm IDEO, is a leading proponent of design thinking—a method of meeting people’s needs and desires in a technologically feasible and strategically viable way. In this article he offers several intriguing examples of the discipline at work. One involves a collaboration between frontline employees from health care provider Kaiser Permanente and Brown’s firm to reengineer nursing-staff shift changes at four Kaiser hospitals. Close observation of actual shift changes, combined with brainstorming and rapid prototyping, produced new procedures and software that radically streamlined information exchange between shifts. The result was more time for nursing, better-informed patient care, and a happier nursing staff. Another involves the Japanese bicycle components manufacturer Shimano, which worked with IDEO to learn why 90% of American adults don’t ride bikes. The interdisciplinary project team discovered that intimidating retail experiences, the complexity and cost of sophisticated bikes, and the danger of cycling on heavily trafficked roads had overshadowed people’s happy memories of childhood biking. So the team created a brand concept—“Coasting”—to describe a whole new category of biking and developed new in-store retailing strategies, a public relations campaign to identify safe places to cycle, and a reference design to inspire designers at the companies that went on to manufacture Coasting bikes. [hbr_brightcove id=”4443548301001″]

The Rise of the Silicon Valley Small Business

What you need to know about the next big startup archetype

marcel.io

Thoughts about design, code, technology and everything in between.

Designs for the pluriverse: radical interdependence, autonomy, and the making of worlds

"Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory by arguing for the creation of what he calls 'autonomous design'--a design practice aimed at channeling design's world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attuned to justice and the Earth"--Publisher description