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Dell's Design Veep talks shop
By Rain Noe - Apr 16, 2009
As vice-president of Dell's global consumer industrial design organization, Ed Boyd is leading Dell's new approach to design on the consumer side. Boyd came to Dell from senior design positions with Nike and Sony, and has been working to build a worldwide design organization that now includes 120 people from every industry, including furniture, architecture and industrial designers.Below is a video of Boyd discussing the company's latest products. It lacks the polish of, say, a Jonathan Ive soundbite, but it's a start:
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Rain Noe is a writer and industrial designer based in New York City.
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