When the hotel closed on Thursday because emergency generators had shut down, people who head, or have headed, design departments at corporations like I.B.M. and Motorola were put on the street for the night -- at the mercy of their own designs, their consciences as professionals and whatever impromptu designing they cared to do.
The young man opposite me noticed the tremendous comic potential in this and treated his fellow passengers to an impromptu routine designed to demonstrate his skills as a mimic.
When I spoke to the administration it felt like they were speaking some impromptu code designed to avoid certain words or phrases.
As a novice to arctic research, I spent hours absorbing literature on previous studies so that I'd be ready to design impromptu experiments and compose educated data interpretations without the convenience of a library.
George Cerrone, a lawyer for two of the sergeants involved in the case, described the Saturday morning gathering outside the precinct as an off-duty "impromptu get-together" designed to wish one of the sergeants well on his upcoming marriage.
She and her husband, the graphic designer Gero Grundmann, set up an impromptu seaweed workshop in the design gallery, Nilufar, during last year's Milan Furniture Fair.
A group of young designers staged the Public Design Festival by setting up impromptu exhibitions in parking spaces dotted around via Tortona.
If you're having a large group and you're running out of space, you can create fancy dividers and combine style elements, to create an impromptu guest room, with a design to set it apart.
A subset of the 13 eSAIL scales was designed to measure attributes believed to relate to innovation: plasticity/rigidity (IMPROMPTU, DOGMATIC), internal/external locus of control (BOLD, RESPBIAS), optimism/pessimism (POSITIVE, MACH), and abstraction (ABSTRACT) (Mascarenhas et al. 2007).
I did do that — but ended up putting together an impromptu 50 minute presentation /slash/ participatory design session /slash/ user research focus group all on Redesigning the Law.
