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The Future of Work: New Working Models for Changing Employee Needs

Editor — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 11:07:43 +0000

Companies like GEDS are the business world’s laboratories in which we develop concepts for working models and our core businesses. We exist on the margins where we do and experience things that eventually become mainstream for corporations. One of those things is the normalization of our unconventional employee needs and working models, such as remote […]

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Gulay Ozkan Honored by Microsoft

Editor — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 13:37:50 +0000

Gulay won the 2020 Woman Leader Making a Difference with New Technologies award at Microsoft’s Women Leaders of Technology Awards. The award recognized her leadership at GEDS over the past 13 years, as well as at the MATUROLIFE project where she is the design lead and manages the design of smart products for older people […]

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“A Thousand Flowers Blooming in the Bay Area” | A Conversation with David Merkoski

Editor — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 08:44:49 +0000

We had a series of conversations with several notable design professionals for our Design Lens initiative back in 2014. As a strategic design consultancy we decided to revisit these memories from our conversations and bridge them to today. As part of our “Nostalgia Series” the first interview was John Maeda, Design Beyond the “Happy Spray”, followed by Kevin […]

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“Design is like Switzerland, It’s Neutral” | A Conversation with Paul Pugh

Editor — Thu, 28 May 2020 08:30:54 +0000

Nowadays as a strategic consultancy, we remember and revisit the memory of our past and bridge it today by reviving the records of interviews with several notable design leaders from 2014. As part of our “Nostalgia Series” the first interview was John Maeda, Design Beyond the “Happy Spray”, followed by Kevin Hale, What a Lot of Entrepreneurs Don’t […]

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Nostalgia Series: A Conversation with Eric Quint

Editor — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 08:16:57 +0000

Connecting the Dots: Design as “Value Engineering” A few years ago, we had a series of conversations with several notable design leaders. We named this compilation Nostalgia because every time we read them; it allows us to take a tour of our past. We believe that good design can carry the context and memory of our […]

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Design Review: Webinars Leveraged by Brands In Response To Covid-19

Editor — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 16:10:57 +0000

Since the Covid-19 outbreak, almost everything in business has been switched to online experiences. This has reminded us of MOOC’s early times. At Singularity University in 2013, there was a session on MOOC with speakers Peter Diamandis and Sebastian Turun, founder of Udacity. They both predicted that MOOC would replace universities. However, because of the […]

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Nostalgia Series: A Conversation with Kevin Hale

Editor — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 08:51:07 +0000

What a Lot of Entrepreneurs Don’t Realize: Good Design Is a Really Selfless Activity A few years ago, we had a series of conversations with several notable design leaders. We named this compilation Nostalgia because every time we read them; it allows us to take a tour of our past. We believe that good […]

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The Future of Work: 10 Tips For Remote Working

Editor — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 15:11:42 +0000

The Future of Work: 10 Tips For Remote Working GEDS founder Gulay Ozkan shares her 10 key strategies to help ease the transition to remote work for your business. It was the summer of 2014. I was camping in a desert on a different continent for 10 days and had limited supplies. Since I traveled […]

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10 Design Sessions To Seek Out at SXSW 2020

Editor — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 20:30:32 +0000

GEDS founder and SXSW advisor Gulay Ozkan shares her design session recommendations for this year’s festival. As part of SXSW 2020’s Design, Fantastic Future and Place by Design advisory boards, I wanted to share my recommendations for the top design sessions to watch out for at this year’s festival. My criteria for this list was […]

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A Collective Design Work Story from İstanbul to SXSW: BOGADA

Editor — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 13:15:42 +0000

As GEDS, we would like to promote designers in the Business World. For this aim, this year we have supported SXSW Place by Design Awards 2020 as a partner. We had two roles in the program. We have recommended candidates to the SXSW awards team and also our founder Gulay Ozkan was on the advisory […]

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Nostalgia Series: A Conversation with John Maeda | Design Beyond the “Happy Spray”

Editor — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 10:00:04 +0000

A few years ago, we had a series of conversations with several notable design leaders. We named this compilation Nostalgia because every time we read them; it allows us to take a tour of our past. We believe that good design can carry the context and memory of our past and bridge it to today. […]

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Start-up Boost by GEDS

Editor — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 16:58:51 +0000

Tool design for start-ups. We are now offering consultancy services to help businesses thrive. We design this service as a tool to define your road map, improve the journey, validate ideas, suggest research areas and deliver testing scenarios. Start-up Boost is a fast and reliable service that can help you to solve your questions. If […]

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Our Sparkling Year 2019

Editor — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 19:55:56 +0000

2019 was a year of being super active, completing our large scale design work at MATUROLIFE, getting international recognitions and hosting our 19 business partners across 9 countries in Europe in Istanbul and being associated with the brands like SXSW, DMI, ESSEC Business School. Some highlights from this year: By November, we have completed our […]

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Behind the Scenes of a Large Scale Technology Project MATUROLIFE

Editor — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 10:22:49 +0000

GEDS received the Design Management Institute’s 2019 Design Value Awards in Boston recently for its innovative approach to design management of MATUROLIFE project. In this article, we will take a journey that explores the background of our design management approach. MATUROLIFE is a nanotechnology textile project funded by European Commission’s H2020 program that aims to create […]

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