design in comment and analysis
Devil's Advocate: Design software before you build it
Comment Good design is the essence of sound systems, says Martin Brampton. Given the importance of policing our capital city, one can only hope that the design is sound and that developments will adhere to it. [04 May 2004]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Quality by design
Comment Good design is one of those abstract things that are hard to define. Some companies work on the premise that everything they sell will be good by design. Customers correctly perceived the goods were... [09 Jul 2008]
Graham Young
CIO Profile Graham Young joined architect Foster + Partners in June 2007 and has 40 years experience in the field of design engineering, working in a variety of roles across various industry sectors. Young started out on civil and... [11 Jun 2008]
Ask the Lawyer @ silicon.com
Comment If we sell product into another EU country from a UK-based Web site and no-one has design or registered design rights over it and we don't know if there exist any overseas design rights... [05 Jun 2000]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Forget 'think different' - think 'non-linear'...
Comment The allocation of resources in hospitals, the design of road networks and much more besides all depend on effective joined-up thinking. We would ensure the design of the engine gave maximum power for a... [09 Apr 2003]
JP Rangaswami
AS Profile Previously the CIO of an investment bank, JP Rangaswami is now MD of innovation and strategy at BT Design, the telco's group IT design and delivery unit, which works with BT Operate to bring software... [07 Oct 2008]
Database Nation: Turning your computer against you
Comment Hold an expensive piece of paper up to the light and you are likely to see a watermark, a design that's produced by pressing the paper with a wire design during the drying process. Watermarks were... [09 Feb 2000]
Sun cold in the channel
Comment First to go were the design agencies, over-stretched and fat from life on huge marketing budgets of the 'old companies' stampeding online. But the wave is spreading beyond bandwidth merchants and design... [27 Apr 2001]
Jonathan Ive
AS Profile More than that, he has established levels of design in consumer electronics that the rest of the industry has been forced to follow. More than any other designer, Ive has awoken the technology industry to the importance... [12 Oct 2007]
Intel developing chip with two brains
Comment The creative leap that lies ahead for microprocessor design could be termed Moore's Sunburn. We're heading into a newer area of architectural design. Like researchers at other companies, scientists at... [21 Aug 2002]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Counterintuitive networks
Comment One thing is certain - all traffic problems, by whatever mechanism they are created, can be addressed, bounded and improved by design and investment. You don't have to engage in the design and... [25 Feb 2003]
Steve Jobs
AS Profile He's been praised for turning Apple around, revolutionising computer hardware design and innovating when everyone else in tech was cutting costs. Over and above Apple's stripped-down hardware design, the... [25 Sep 2006]
Minority Report: MacBook Air - slim chance of success?
Comment It is spectacularly beautiful, features an innovative design and wowed the Macworld crowd. It was spectacularly beautiful, featured an innovative design and wowed the Macworld crowd. Although the Cube... [06 Feb 2008]
The Bloor Perspective: C&W thinks big, Silicon Valley thinks young, and gadgets get Linux
Comment In addition to the acquisition of existing ISP businesses to ensure complete coverage, it is also acquiring skills in web design and development that will be used to build up its ASP business as well as provide the usual... [24 Jul 2000]
Voting in the internet age - the Palm Beach Story
Comment With George W Bush currently just over 300 votes ahead of Al Gore, four contested - and largely Democratic - communities in southern Florida believe poor ballot design and antiquated technology may have cost their man... [17 Nov 2000]
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