Philip Haine’s articles on Product Vision, Innovation and Design

Great Designs

This section spotlights some nice innovations that have made it to market.

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1995 Palm calendar creams the 2008 iPhone’s

The iPhone has a few things to learn from its grandpa.

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Needs Analysis of Reusable Shopping Bags (plus a holiday gift idea)

MyOwnBags demonstrate a nice clean differentiation. Plus, they make a great gift for stylish people!

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The Potential of Chumby

The Chumby does nothing specific, a lot in general.

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UI Friction and Apple’s Front Row

Reducing the needless UI overhead in Front Row.

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DabbleDB, FileMaker Pro, and Innovation

Breakthrough innovations in generalist user databases

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Marriage Sav-R Toothpaste Tube

It’s always nice seeing breakthrough solutions to mundane old problems that we accept as a given.