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How to design a white elephant

How to design a white elephant

By Chris Evans on January 27, 2011

The British love a good White Elephant. It has only been a decade since the creation of the Millenium Dome, which cost over a billion dollars, and was swiftly known as one of the biggest flops in public spending history (although it has drastically improved in its current incarnation). Only a couple of years after [...]

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The Project Faraday Process

Design Process: linking services, organisations and space

By Tom Weaver on October 7, 2010

In a recent post, The Client is Always Right, highlighting the importance of a well run engagement process with clients, we asked: How do you innovate around the physical environment, making it better for customers or learners, when space and the way we use it is so culturally ingrained in an organisation’s behaviour? How do [...]

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The Client Is Always Right: The Importance of Engagement

The Client Is Always Right: The Importance of Engagement

By Tom Weaver on August 27, 2010

Earlier this week, we posted an article about five local or global organisations that had redefined the customer experience, from a cinema chain to a grocery store. A number of people subsequently contacted us to ask whether we had seen the BBC series Mary Queen of Shops, and whether it was similar to the work [...]

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