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Meet Elle Luna, a former IDEO designer who believes design plays a role at every stage of the process--even before teams start to think visually. Elle Luna calls herself a "designer, storyteller, and startup advisor." As a mentor at the Designer Fund , which believes designers should be startup founders rather than late-stage additions, Luna feels designers have a role to play at every stage of the process, including the gleam-in-eye phase. FAST COMPANY: You recently left your position at the major design firm IDEO

Feeling like you're stuck fighting to the death for big procurement contracts? Use these tips to develop a winning strategy. The Hunger Games, the bestselling novel by Suzanne Collins, introduces audiences to a horrific, post-apocalyptic world

How long does it take an electron to form a photon? The answer would normally be: so short a time that it cannot be measured.

Scientists in Portugal are in the process of developing a special pair of pajamas that they hope will prevent symptoms caused by the skin condition, eczema.

When filling a top leadership slot, these are the blunders you don't want to make.

Biomedical research scientists send proposals to the National Institutes of Health in the hopes of being funded. A recent study of this process, published in Science by the University of Kansas’s Donna Ginther and her colleagues, revealed that proposals from black applicants are significantly less likely to be funded than proposals from white applicants

There’s a vast expanse between the transactional moment when a consumer likes, friends, or follows a site and the instant that same consumer becomes a brand evangelist, entering into a state of emotional commitment. The former isn’t difficult to achieve; observe how many sites have hundreds of thousands of friends, very few of whom feel any real passion for the brand, or would go out of their way to recommend it to somehow (least of all defend it in a the social-media equivalent of a barroom brawl.) The latter is the bell-ringing marketing challenge of today. It’s not surprising that there isn’t more deep-down devotion among the millions of superficial friends and followers.

As a business owner, if you can tap into the passion of your workforce the same way that Wikipedia taps into its army of unpaid volunteers, you can accomplish things that no amount of money can buy. Have you ever stopped to consider how remarkable Wikipedia is? The online encyclopedia represents arguably the greatest collection of knowledge and information ever assembled--and the overwhelming majority of the work in creating and maintaining it has been done by unpaid volunteers .

Firing someone is hard -- but getting fired is always harder.

Lessons from my diet: Use these 5 steps to move your company past a plateau and on to the next 'set point.' I dropped about 20 pounds last spring–and in doing so, changed my weight "set point" to 175 pounds. That means that my body–metabolism, habits and choices–adjusted to a "new normal" that was easier to maintain than it had been to attain. Like the body's systems, businesses also develop along a series of set points and set point changes.

Like hundreds of thousands of other people, my first encounter with a slow loris occurred online when I watched the now-famous 57-second video of one of these adorable primates being tickled and throwing up its arms in apparent glee.

(PhysOrg.com) -- The stock price of a company continuously changes, going up or down depending on the collective activity of a large number of investors.

You ask a ton of questions. Your process is exhaustive -- and exhausting. And that might be your problem