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Continue reading →: Design’s Role in the Economy
In the current high competitive market, products and services are not the determining factor of success anymore. Consumers don’t just purchase products or pay for services anymore. They now purchase experiences. This is a fundamental shift in the marketplace referred to as the experience economy. It is a major shift…
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Continue reading →: Design Fiction: Planning for Reality
In Design Is Storytelling, Ellen Lupton talks about the idea of design fiction, where designers imagine and brainstorm possible futures by writing and visuals. Instead of trying to figure out today’s problems by itself, we ask “what if?” while creating imaginations in a world where people live different like living…
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Continue reading →: Narratives in Focus
Creating narratives or stories based in images can be fascinating and interesting because one could interpret an image in a variety of ways based on one’s experiences and knowledge. As the saying goes, “a picture is worth a thousand words”. Anyone could come with anything from one image and describe…
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Continue reading →: AI: Is It Flawed?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming industries, fueling innovation, and changing work and life. From autonomous automobiles to voice-based customer service, the possibilities of AI are endless. And with it so readily available to release, it’s just as important to remember that AI is far from perfect. It’s essential to understand…
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Continue reading →: Trello for Writers: Organize Your Projects
Writing papers—school, work, or personal studies—can be overwhelming without an organization. Through the years, I’ve discovered that breaking up the writing process into baby steps makes me less anxious and productive. My go-to tool in keeping this process organized is Trello. Trello is an easy but efficient project management tool…
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Continue reading →: What I Learned from Quitting Instagram for 5 Days
I gave up Instagram last week for five whole days—a small experiment in reclaiming my attention. Spurred on by Johann Hari’s Stolen Focus, chapters 6 and 7 specifically, I wanted to see life without the endless scroll. Hari explains that our attention isn’t just being hijacked by algorithms—it’s being re-engineered.…
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Continue reading →: The Attention Economy: How Technology Traps Your Focus
With hyper-connection comes the ease of watching your attention span disappear. You glance down to scan your phone for a passing update and — before you even realize what’s happening — have lost 45 minutes browsing through feeds you can hardly recall. It’s not poor habit or willpower shortage, Johann…
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Continue reading →: Rediscovering the Lost Art of Deep Reading
Michael Harris, reflecting on the act of reading in the digital era, sheds light on something that all of us have quietly gone through without ever talking about it: the way our ability to lose ourselves in a book is wearing down. Reading was once a transportive act, an entry…
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Continue reading →: Are We Losing Our Ability to Focus?
I’ve noticed in the last little while just how much harder it is to really concentrate. Whether you’re reading a book, working on a task, or just conversing, my mind gets pulled in a dozen different directions. That’s why Johann Hari’s Stolen Focus interested me. Reading the first few chapters,…
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Continue reading →: LinkedIn for Pharma: That’s a Wrap!
I barely know that seven weeks already went by. Time indeed passes quickly when you spend it on something useful. During the weeks, I managed to design and carry out a social media campaign which was specifically designed for marketing the utilization of LinkedIn as a marketing tool in the…

