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From the Ted Talk by Tim Brown: Designers -- think big!

Unscramble the Blue Letters

This is the second prjceot that I did. It's a fax machine. I put an attractive shell around some new technology. Again, 18 months later, the purdoct was obsolete. And now, of course, the whole technology is obsolete. Now, I'm a fairly slow learner, but eventually it occurred to me that maybe what passed for design wasn't all that important — making things more attractive, making them a bit easier to use, mnaikg them more marketable. By fcnisoug on a design, maybe just a single product, I was being inaeetnmcrl and not having much of an impact.

Open Cloze

This is the second _______ that I did. It's a fax machine. I put an attractive shell around some new technology. Again, 18 months later, the _______ was obsolete. And now, of course, the whole technology is obsolete. Now, I'm a fairly slow learner, but eventually it occurred to me that maybe what passed for design wasn't all that important — making things more attractive, making them a bit easier to use, ______ them more marketable. By ________ on a design, maybe just a single product, I was being ___________ and not having much of an impact.

Solution

  1. focusing
  2. incremental
  3. product
  4. making
  5. project

Original Text

This is the second project that I did. It's a fax machine. I put an attractive shell around some new technology. Again, 18 months later, the product was obsolete. And now, of course, the whole technology is obsolete. Now, I'm a fairly slow learner, but eventually it occurred to me that maybe what passed for design wasn't all that important — making things more attractive, making them a bit easier to use, making them more marketable. By focusing on a design, maybe just a single product, I was being incremental and not having much of an impact.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

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