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Meet the Design Group: Building a Design Ecosystem
Last week, our industrial design team traveled to Essen, Germany to receive one of the greatest honors in the international design community: the Red Dot award. It would be a great honor to receive one award. Instead, Red Dot awarded us with four. We received awards for Cisco Spark Room Kit, Cisco S…
A Designer’s View: Winning Red Dot’s “Best of the Best” for Cisco Spark Board
Today feels like what it must be to be a race driver winning the Le Mans or an actor winning the Oscars. As a product designer, it’s an amazing feeling to be awarded “Best of the Best” Red Dot Design Award. No doubt it is a privilege to win this award, but like the race driver at Le Mans, it can’t b…
“Scandifornian” Design at SXSW: Q&A with Torkel Mellingen
I was just in Austin, Texas, at SXSW. While there, I spoke at Cisco Spark Haus about the Cisco design language – and how magic happens when California meets Norway. I’m often asked about our approach, so I thought I’d share some of my Texas conversation. The baseline question I get is: What do…
The Sliding Doors of the Digital Age
The upcoming collaboration launch at Cisco is a little more personal for me than most launches. Alan Kay, Doug Engelbart, and Steve Jobs have inspired me since I started designing collaboration products 12 years ago. This launch continues the journey they began. Steve Jobs is widely recognized as on…
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