I recently completed the "Foundations of Design Research" course offered at Lynda.com. It was a great refresher that allowed me to review fundamentals and also introduced me to a few new tools to try in my work. The training host provided a thorough and engaging walk thru of various types of design research, and introduced research tools, planning considerations and frameworks for presenting results. If, like me, you appreciate insight into other designers ways of working or

I recently read the book "Design Like Apple” that I received from a friend at Lunar, a design agency in San Francisco. Written by the agency's president John Edson, the book uses Apple as an innovation bellwether but weaves in stories of successful and unsuccessful design scenarios from a variety of businesses, making this book much more than a discussion of Apple's design methodology. After blowing through the book I was left with a few pages of insights that both helped and