Today in Global Small Business: Designing Across Cultures

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• Designing across cultures refers to the process of creating products and services that are tailored to the needs and preferences of diverse cultural groups.
• Stancé, a designer art toy company, proudly announces its global partnership with UFC, the world’s premier mixed martial arts organization. 
• Quote of the week:  "You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality." – Walt Disney
• Why human-centered transformation design is critical for universities.
• Elevating interior design globally.
• OpenAI, the AI company behind the viral AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT, has acquired Global Illumination, a New York–based startup leveraging AI to build creative tools, infrastructure and digital experiences.