# ThinkLab
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Celebrating Progress: Evaluating Design Shifts and the Road to 2024
Take a reflective journey through ThinkLab's Tectonic Shifts, designed to distill key insights for navigating the landscape of the interiors industry.
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ThinkLab’s Visionary Jeffersonian Dinners Forge New Paths for Local Design
ThinkLab explains how design experts can engage in Jeffersonian dinners to listen, learn, debate, and inspire one another through meaningful dialogue.
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6 Essential Resources for the Savvy Sales Rep
With continued shifts in how sales reps in the interior design industry connect with clients, ThinkLab shares six resources to help reps stay ahead.
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3 Design Topics Sparking Conversation at Giant Ideas 2023
Sustainability, diversity, equity and inclusion, and Web3 are driving change—in and out of the industry—but how do design firms and projects measure up?
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Design Hackathon: Introducing the Design Hackathon Advisory Council for 2023
What does Gen Z want in the workplace? ThinkLab's Design Hackathon Advisory Council will consider how the next generation will shape the industry.
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ThinkLab’s ‘The Learning Objective’ Podcast Reveals How Designers Can Crush Creative Burnout
The Learning Objective, a podcast from ThinkLab, discusses how to recover from burnout. Learn how to keep your creativity fueled.
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Interiors Industry Forecast: 5 Shifts to Get Ahead in 2023
What do experts see shifting in the architecture and design industry this year? Explore the interior design trends coming in 2023.
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5 Foundational Shifts You Should Make Now To Avoid Falling Behind in 2023
What's next for the interior design industry? ThinkLab considers the shifts needed for designers to stay ahead in this 2 part series.
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CEU Courses Are Evolving: 3 Strategies Your Brand Should Try to Succeed
ThinkLab considers strategies brands can use to find success through CEU courses (continuing education) in an ever-evolving industry.
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New Research Reveals What Matters Most to Dealer Designers
ThinkLab breaks down new research revealing what matters most to dealer designers in the project process. Read on to get the scoop.
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DesignWire
Spotted! Top 10 Commercial Design Trends at NeoCon 2022
ThinkLab Trendspotters were at NeoCon again this year, scoping the show. Learn more about what they found here.
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DesignWire
Listen Up! SANDOW Design Group Launches Podcast Network, SURROUND
Kick back, turn up the volume, and peruse SURROUND, a new podcast network from SANDOW Design Group featuring the industry's go-to shows.
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DesignWire
Practical Ways to Connect and Engage in a Digital Realm
As part of ThinkLab’s 2022 hackathon, we turned to Professor Eddie Obeng for his ideas on how to connect. As our hackathon’s keynote speaker, Obeng presented practical new ways we can communicate and engage in the di
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ThinkLab Explains Why the Luxury Residential Sector is Due to Slow-Down
The luxury residential sector, a pandemic bright spot, is due for a slowdown. ThinkLab explains why.
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Cruz Garcia and Nathalie Frankowski Offer 5 Notes on the Future of Design
This month ThinkLab is pleased to welcome guest authors Cruz Garcia and Nathalie Frankowski as they invite us to (re)consider the role of architecture and design in the construction of a better future.
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10 Bold Predictions for the Interiors Industry in 2022
ThinkLab’s 10 bold predictions look at changes to come in the next 1–3 years. See what to expect in the interiors industry in a post-pandemic world.
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3 Ways to Thrive in the New Hybrid Work Era
If you’re following ThinkLab lately, you know we believe that hybrid work is here to stay. According to Kate Lister, president of Global Workplace Analytics, 56 percent of the U.S. workforce has a job that is compatibl
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DesignWire
8 Resources to Prepare for the Future of the Design Industry
When we think about the future of design and its surrounding ecosystem, we often look at familiar topics starting to peek out over the horizon in the next five years or so — in other words, the near-term future. But w
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What Designers Need to Know About Supply Chain Disruption
In our conversations with designers across multiple sectors, we’ve heard repeatedly that the reselection process due to availability of product is one of the top issues right now. And while breaking the news to a clien
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DesignWire
The Future of Design: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond
As part of ThinkLab’s current hackathon, focused on product specification in the phygital era, ThinkLab invited expertise from outside of the industry to help us explore technology, automation and how WE, as members of