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On Monday 10 Nov 2008, It’s a rare opportunity to have Guest Speaker Mr. Bruce Claxton, Senior Director, Design Integration, Motorola, USA (also ex President of Industrial Designers Society of America, IDSA) at LUCT.

A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art, and the Georgia Institute of Technology in Design, Claxton Claxton has over 30 years experience in industrial design and has been with Motorola over 20 years. He directs the award winning industrial design and human factors innovation teams for Motorola’s Government and Enterprise Sector. His design and human factors teams create the vision of future products. Social science, art and design provide a rich context for innovation. His team leads design for numerous Motorola businesses worldwide. Handheld telecommunications and data products equipment are designed in Florida and Malaysia to support customers globally. The teams include industrial design, graphic design, user interface design, human factors and strategic design planning. These teams have been recognized globally for their excellence. He has transformed the group into the Design Integration team which is recognized in Motorola for driving future vision for the product roadmap.

He has led initiatives for Motorola that redefine the traditional boundaries of industrial design. With creative problem solving ( CPS ) as a body of knowledge, the design team has facilitated numerous strategic sessions addressing a range of material from engineering and design issues to future business strategies for new directions for the corporation. Claxton’s creative problem solving background includes Synectics, the Parnes method, and other techniques. He is also an alumni of the Creative Problem Solving Institute at SUNY University of Buffalo, N.Y. Claxton has led numerous workshops on creativity and strategy generating. He is known globally for his work on innovation, creativity and design.

Claxton is a Fellow of the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) and a past national president. He is presently the Board Chair of the Industrial Designers Society of America, the world’s largest design society.

His design work includes consumer products, heavy equipment, personal care, business equipment in addition to the wireless communications / computing products from Motorola. He holds 46 U.S. patents and numerous foreign patents and is a “Distinguished Innovator” at Motorola. In 1998, he participated on a four-person UN delegation to China sharing the value of industrial design with educators, businessmen, and senior government officials resulting in a policy on design for China in the new century. He is well known in the international design community, and has sponsored several student programs both in the U.S. and abroad. Claxton has lectured internationally at design symposiums and universities. In 2000, he contributed to “Design Policies for the 21st Century” in a published piece in Japanese Design News. Claxton presented a paper and was a host for the Tsinghua International Design Management Forum in Beijing, September 2002, and again in Tsukuba, Japan, in 2003 as a keynote speaker for the 6th Asia Design Conference. Workshops on innovation and design were held in Taiwan during 2003. In 2004, he was a keynote speaker at prominent design conferences in Valparaiso Chile, Wuxi, China and Hong Kong.

Claxton has led numerous student design programs in the U.S., Taiwan, Mexico and Chile. In 2001, he sponsored the first international student design competition for universal design for communications in alliance with Motorola and IDSA.

His team won a best in class “Gold” in the consumer product category with the “Talkabout” two-way radio in the 1998 IDSA/BusinessWeek Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) competition. The design team was again was awarded a “Gold” award from IDSA/BusinessWeek for the i1000 Communicator in 1999. The Talkabout series of products also won a “Gold” award for the “Design of the Decade” issued by BusinessWeek and IDSA in 1999. Both of these products were accepted November of 2000 into the permanent collection of the Smithsonian as a result of the Design Triennial National Design Exhibit at the Cooper Hewitt Museum. Five products received Innovation awards at the 2002 Consumer Electronics Show and the Talkabout T4300 radio won a Bronze IDEA in 2002. Three additional products were recognized at the 2005 CES show in the Innovation Showcase.

To conclude, he has indeed broaden our minds on designer work culture and well, to think globally and some other good advice et cetera. I love the term overnight physic and we seriously need champions in a organization to get things going in Malaysia.

Where have you gone? How are you? What you doing now?

Those are the questions always in my mind when my curiousity sparks upon looking at my friends from latest primary picture on friendster.

I really want to tell them I’m great and wish them all the best, take care, and keep in touch.

In my heart, they will always paint a great picture with all the things we’ve done together and how much I miss them.

For all my close friends in Melaka & Cyberia let us cherish the moments and paint great picture.

And lastly, my darling…despite the test of our love, I will do my best to love you and promise you a wonderful life together.

This article is worth reading my friends. Spend a few minutes reading it can actually improve your love life.

Question: In your book “Love Must Be Tough” you suggest some ways unmarried people can build healthy relationships and not smother each other. Would you share those again and apply the “tough love” principle to those who are not married?

Answer:The principles of loving toughness are the same for those who are single as for those who have been married for decades. There are circumstances, however, that are specific to the courtship period. Let me cite 17 suggestions that will help you avoid the common pitfalls among those who are trying to win the heart of another.

1. Don’t let a relationship move too fast in its infancy. The phrase “too hot not to cool down” has validity. Romantic affairs that begin in a frenzy frequently burn themselves out. Take it one step at a time.
2. Don’t discuss your personal inadequacies and flaws in great detail when the relationship is new. No matter how warm and accepting your friend may be, any great revelation of low self-esteem or embarrassing weaknesses can be fatal when interpersonal “valleys” occur. And they will occur.
3. Remember that respect precedes love. Build it stone upon stone.
4. Don’t call too often on the phone or give the other person an opportunity to get tired of you.
5. Don’t be too quick to reveal your desire to get married – or that you think you’ve just found Mr. Wonderful or Miss Marvelous. If your partner has not arrived at the same conclusion, you’ll throw him or her into panic.
6. Most important: Relationships are constantly being “tested” by cautious lovers who like to nibble at the bait before swallowing the hook. This testing procedure takes many forms, but it usually involves pulling back from the other person to see what will happen. Perhaps a foolish fight is initiated. Maybe two weeks will pass without a phone call. Or sometimes flirtation occurs with a rival.
   In each instance, the question being asked is, “How important am I to you, and what would you do if you lost me?” An even more basic issue lies below that one. It is: “How free am I to leave if I want to?” It is incredibly important in these instances to appear poised, secure and equally independent. Do not grasp the other person and beg for mercy. Some people remain single throughout life because they cannot resist the temptation to grovel when the test occurs.
7. Extending the same concept, keep in mind that virtually every dating relationship that continues for a year or more and seems to be moving toward marriage will be given the ultimate test. A breakup will occur, motivated by only one of the lovers. The rejected individual should know that their future together depends on the skill with which he or she handles that crisis. If the hurting individual can remain calm, the next two steps may be reconciliation and marriage. It often happens that way. If not, then no amount of pleading will change anything.
8. Do not depend entirely upon each other for the satisfaction of every emotional need. Maintain interests and activities outside that romantic relationship, even after marriage.
9. Guard against selfishness in your love affair. Neither the man nor the woman should do all the giving. I once broke up with a girl because she let me take her to nice places, bring her flowers, buy her lunch, etc. I wanted to do these things but expected her to reciprocate in some way. She didn’t.
10. Beware of blindness to obvious warning signs that your potential husband and wife is basically disloyal, hateful, uncommitted, hooked on drugs or alcohol, given to selfishness, etc. Believe me, a bad marriage is far worse than the most lonely instance of singleness.
11. Beginning early in the dating relationship, treat the other person with respect and expect the same in return. If you don’t preserve this respectful attitude when the foundations of marriage are being laid, it will be virtually impossible to construct them later.
12. Do not equate human worth with flawless beauty or handsomeness! If you require physical perfection in your mate, he or she may make the same demands of you. Neither of you will keep it for long. Don’t let love escape you because of the false values of your culture.
13. If genuine love has escaped you thus far, don’t begin believing “No one will ever want me.” That is a deadly trap that can destroy you emotionally. Millions of people are looking for someone to love. The problem is finding one another!
14. Regardless of how brilliant the courtship has been, take time to “check your assumptions” with your partner before committing yourself to marriage. It is surprising how often men and women plunge toward matrimony without ever becoming aware of major differences in expectation between them.
15. Sexual familiarity can be deadly to a relationship. In addition to the many moral, spiritual and physical reasons for abstinence before marriage, there are numerous psychological and interpersonal advantages as well. It may sound like an old-fashioned notion but both sexes need to remember how to use a very ancient word. It’s pronounced “NO!”
16. Country singer Tom T. Hall wrote a song in which he revealed an understanding of the concept we have been describing. His lyric read, “If you hold love too closely then it flies away; if you hold love too tightly, it’ll die. It’s one of the mysteries of life.” Hall’s observation is accurate. If the commitment between a man and a woman is given insufficient importance in their lives, it will wither like a plant without water. The whole world knows that much. But fewer lovers seem to realize that extreme dependency can be just as deadly to a love affair. It has been said that the person who needs the other least will normally be in control of the relationship. I believe that to be true.
17. There is nothing about marriage that eliminates the basic need for freedom and respect in romantic interactions. Keep the mystery and the dignity in your relationship. If the other partner begins to feel trapped and withdraws for a time, grant him or her some space and pull back yourself. Do not build a cage around that person. Instead, release your grip with confidence while never appeasing immorality or destructive behavior.

These are the basics of the “Love Must Be Tough” concept. I could list another 100 suggestions, but you get the idea.

This article was written by Focus on the Family Malaysia and the Question and Answer is extracted from Dr James Dobson Book entitled ‘Solid Answers’ with permission. For further enquiries, kindly contact , focus@family.org.my or www.family.org.my

Yeah, Post Any Oppinion after you see this guys.