metacool: Total Design

Metacool calls dibs on 2006. Diego's staked out this year as the Year of Total Design:

"Total Design is to normal design as Total Football is to normal soccer. It's what happens when you combine wickedly good design thinkers with a human-centered, business-sensitive design process. "

Previous posts on design:

More on ideas to reality
Thinker-Uppers vs Idea Massagers
Navel Gazing + bad rock and roll analogy
What design isn't
Target getting it
Nussbaum on design
flux in the design biz
Talking About Design
Simplicity, Design, and Corn
Totally Chaotic!
Premium vs Luxury
Is Innovation Finished Or Isn't It?
Design Lust at Target's Pharmacy
Millenium Challenge 2002 and Design Thinking
Losing The Conversation, Taking It back