Methods of Business Design — featured cards

METHODS OF BUSINESS DESIGN · FEATURED CARDS · 10 MAY 2026

Hand-picked highlights at the top of the /methods-of-business-design/archive/ page. Curated for visual punch + categorical breadth; sits above the sortable list of every article in the section.

TL;DR

4 featured cards live on the section archive’s strip.
Categorical breadth: 3 sub-categories represented — Industrial Design, Psychology, User Interface.

The picks

1. Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert, 1958

Category: Industrial Design
Link: /industrial-design/jock-kinneir-and-margaret-calvert-1958-motorway-signs/
Image: uk-motorway-signs.jpg
Excerpt: How Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert designed Britain’s motorway signs in 1958 — a landmark system that made road travel safer and clearer for millions.

Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert, 1958

2. Nine Principles of Miyamoto

Category: Psychology
Link: /observations/nine-principles-of-miyamoto/
Image: five-rings.jpg
Excerpt: Miyamoto Musashi’s Book of Five Rings distils timeless principles of strategy, craft, and spirit — widely studied as a guide to Japanese management thinking.

Nine Principles of Miyamoto

3. Be creative with Donald MacKinnon

Category: Psychology
Link: /people/be-creative-with-donald-mackinnon/
Image: donald-alexander-mackinnon.jpg
Excerpt: Explore Donald MacKinnon’s definition of creativity as a process of connection, combining seemingly contradictory ideas into elegant, unified solutions with real value.

Be creative with Donald MacKinnon

4. Spectrum of User Experience

Category: User Interface
Link: /user-interface/spectrum-of-user-experience/
Image: spectrum-of-user-interface-design.gif
Excerpt: A visual framework for understanding user experience design at the centre of interface design, with disciplines radiating outward.

Spectrum of User Experience

How to rotate

Identify a fresh pick in /methods-of-business-design/archive/index.html — look at the data-cat / data-title attrs on the list-cards below the strip.
Edit the featured-strip section of the archive’s index.html. Each .featured-card.has-thumb block has: href, img src, alt, .featured-card__cat, <h3>, <p>.
Backup before edit (CLAUDE.md convention): cp index.html "index.html.bak-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S)".
Commit + push — Cloudflare Pages auto-deploys.
Re-run dare_archive_thumbnails.py --section methods-of-business-design --variant c only if the underlying list-cards need their thumbnails re-injected; the featured-strip is independent.

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