Have you ever wondered why a vernier calliper and a screw gauge can give different measurement readings, even if you designed them specially to be equally precise? It's the same reason why, when boiling water, you dip the thermometer in the water to check its reading, and not place the thermometer beside the pot of boiling water. It all comes down to another very significant factor that is crucial in addition to precision - accuracy. And this is where the Abbe principle comes into play - all in this episode, based on an excerpt from the Universal Principles of Design.

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When you say "Yes" to someone or something, you are inevitably saying "No" to something else. This is the way to judge what you are saying "Yes" and "No" to. If your work, your craft and your goals are your priority - it is crucial that you need to say No to a lot of things - to requests for help, for advice, for assistance. But, always be kind and respectful - try to give leads to people who might say yes. Saying "No" the right way will not make you feel self-centered. Instead it will liberate you to take up the most important responsibility to work on your dreams. You need to say No more often than you might think - all this and more, in this episode, based on an excerpt from The One Thing, by Gary Keller.

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A high percentage of the effects in any large system is caused by a low percentage of variables. Applying the 80/20 rule means identifying and focusing your resources on the critical 20% of input or effort. This should give you the maximum results. As it turns out, focusing more, actually yields diminishing returns. All this, and more in this episode based on an excerpt from the Universal Principles of Design.

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What is a designer? What is an artist? What is a stylist? What is mystery art? What is the shape of words? What is the language of signs and symbols? What is a poster without end? What is micro-art? What is bamboo? What is a spontaneous form, that grows and explodes? What is an arrow? What is a useless machine? - all this and much more in the marvellous eye-opener by Bruno Munari, Design as Art.

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Simply learning from the results of your actions aren't enough. Observing what actions give you what results will only get you so far. As long as you keep taking the correct actions by pure chance, you're safe. But once you make a mistake, you not only need to observe the reason behind the mistake - but also observe the point-of-view from which you are looking at the reason for the mistake. After all, the main reason might be something totally different from what you see at first glance. This is Double-Loop Learning, based on an excerpt from the Decision Book, by Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschäppeler.

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In a design thinking process, even when your observations are casual or semi-structured, it's very beneficial to have a framework to guide all your data around - this way you make sure to attend to all key information that comes up after synthesis of the data. And for this, you have the AEIOU framework - to categorise and collect valuable data on Actions, Environments, Interactions, Objects, and Users. Good for guiding any ethnographic, or observational method, AEIOU is based on an excerpt from the Universal Methods of Design.

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Cognitive biases play very important roles in the decisions we take in our day to day lives. They impact our rationale in ways, we've never thought. They make getting to the right decision, a long hard, and often impossible, process. This is why you need to understand what these 4 crucial errors in thinking are, and how to get around them, to get things right. We can never totally remove them, but we can minimise their effects by sharpening our brains - all this and more, in this episode, based on an excerpt from, The Decision Book, by Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschäppeler.

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Thousands of people had engaging and compelling interactions with the animatronic character, Quasi the robot - but little did they know that there was a technician behind the scenes, controlling each displayed interaction by the robot. This is called Wizard of Oz - a design method, employed to best understand how a potential user would interact with the real product. If you need to gauge how people will feel about- and how they might perform using a proposed solution, this experience prototyping technique is the way to go.

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Ikigai is the Japanese secret to long and happy lives. It is your purpose, it is your why, it is the reason you get up every morning - and much more. From finding flow in life, to eating the right food, from daily gentle movements to resilience, this book will open up your minds to unimaginable possibilities about the true art of living. This episode is a review of the book, Ikigai - by Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles.

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A todo list is a simple inventory of all work that is your responsibility. It simply shows you everything that you need to do. But when you give equal priority to all tasks, all results become mediocre. To get extraordinary results you need to focus extraordinarily on a few tasks. One at a time. You need a list of tasks, built around the motive of making you successful. You need a success list, and that is the premise of this episode, based on an excerpt from The One Thing, by Gary Keller.

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