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    Moving beyond failure

    Aug 27, 2017 3 minutes
    Words — Beck Davis, National Director, Queensland Chapter, Design Institute of Australia

    While the entrepreneurial spirit often views failure as a prerequisite to successful outcomes, designers tend to view it differently. That is, designers don’t design quickly to fail, they take a little extra time in order to succeed. Designers rely on research, idea generation, concepts, prototypes and iteration – tools that they use to think through various permutations, possibilities and outcomes. They rigorously

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