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These are our links for September 1st through September 2nd:

• Martin: Design Thinking » Special Report » Design Thinking « MIT Sloan Management Review – Design thinking — distinct from analytical thinking — has emerged as the premier organizational path not only to breakthrough innovation but, surprisingly, to high-performance collaboration, as well. “It’s not about the pretty,” says one design-thinking practitioner, “it’s about the productive.” In this special section of articles, interviews, illustrated cases and research findings, the Review explores how to put design thinking to work.
• Martin: Ignite Show: Jeff Veen on Great Designers – O’Reilly Radar – Good designers copy. Great designers steal. Jeff Veen, well-known for his design work on Google Analytics, Wikirank and Typekit, lays out a strong argument for why iPhone imitators are the cargo cults of the digital era.
• Martin: Web Content Strategy | DISCUSSION (Part 2) – Companies and agencies spend months and millions of dollars on how they'll deliver content online, yet allocate very few resources toward creating and governing the content itself. Why? Distributed ownership, internal politics, scope creep, higher-than-anticipated costs… content is messy.
• Martin: Peachpit: Designing for Interaction: Design Research > What Is Design Research? – If only a small bit of the typical time, money, and resources used to make and market a product or service were put towards design research—observing, talking to, and maybe even making artifacts with customers and users—the products and services we use would be greatly improved. Dan Saffer explains.