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Trust the Customers, Not the Experts

Destination Innovation

Rob Law studied Product Design at Northumbria University. One of his course assignments in 1997 was to come up with a new design for luggage. When he returned to England in 2002, he endeavoured to raise funding. ” His Trunki design went on to win over 100 awards. Rob Law and Trunki. Lessons for Innovators.

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The Past and Future of Experience Design

Boxes and Arrows

Ten years ago, when I wrote The Making of a Discipline: The Making of a Title, 2002, there was a big debate on: Is experience design about online and mobile interfaces or is it something more? There has been a reluctance for designers to embrace the idea of experience and I’m not sure why.

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Designing for Social Interaction

Boxes and Arrows

Let’s look at each type of tie, and how we might design for them. 8 In both 2002 and 2007, a study of 1,178 adults found that on average, people had about 10 friends they meet or speak with at least weekly (10 strong ties). 9 So, when we’re designing for strong ties, we’re designing for small groups of people.

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Emotional Design with A.C.T. - Part 1

Boxes and Arrows

As UX professionals, we strive to design engaging experiences. Whether you’re designing a website or a physical product, the formation of a relationship depends on how useful, usable and pleasurable the experience is. Then, we’ll dive deeper to explore how design elicits and communicates emotion and personality to users.

Design 101
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Become proactive instead of reactive with Future Designs

mjvinnovation

Let’s take a step back and dig a little deeper into the theory behind Futures Studies and Futures Design in order to contextualize “scenario” and “collapse”. He revisited this model in Advancing Futures (2002). Coachella is postponing, while E3, the biggest game design fair in the world, is going virtual. Hawaii foresight Ph.D.

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Conceptual Models in a Nutshell

Boxes and Arrows

This article explains what conceptual models are and describes the value of developing a conceptual model of a software application before designing its user interface. A conceptual model of an application is the model of the application that the designers want users to understand. Conceptual Model: a Model for Users’ Mental Model.

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How the current patent system actually hurts innovation (and how patent trolls are being fought)

Idea to Value

For example, here is a patent granted to a person in 2002 for his description of “ How to swing on a swing “ Now, I’m no rocket surgeon, but I’m pretty sure I was swinging on a swing before 2002! In 2009, CoreValve was bought by Medtronic for $775 million. So what does this all mean for innovation?

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