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Creative Boom

Since launching SDCO Partners in 2009, founders Amy Pastre and Courtney Rowson have designed hundreds of brands worldwide – including names like LeCreuset and Soludos – but it's their work with industry-disrupting, women-owned businesses that drives their passion. How did the pandemic compare to 2009 for you?

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Thinking Design

In 2003 she transformed the brand by expanding into other markets, introducing shoes, handbags, jewelry, and swimsuits to her collections. She received the Timeless Talent Award in 1999, and in 2009 she was awarded the National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Lifetime Achievement in Fashion. * * * * * * * * * It’s been a minute, wanna catch up?

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20 Essential Architecture and Design Lectures to Catch During Fall/Winter 2023

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Wave 3 — The Strategy Wave The Strategy Wave will see research operate at a business level, and the work will consume the outputs of Product Wave research. Its grounding frames are consolidated sets of user needs that extend into organizational composition and the market landscape. The Strategy Wave is one of gameplay.

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UX Collective

Social marketing had the best practitioner taxonomies, usually in the areas of public health, safety, and environmental protection. E-commerce and marketers had another set of strategies. In other cases, they were specialists in applied psychology–especially the social marketers. Not verry” McKenzie-Mohr, D, and W Smith.

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UX Collective

The natural tendency is to want defined signals here — like a clear north star as a reference for progress, but in reality, we need something more like ‘scaffolding’ that guides decision making.