It might not come as a surprise to most of you, but this design blogger has an alter ego as a design professional during the day! While it
Anthony Tjan shares:
While there are obvious ways to gain significant customer understanding, such as surveys and focus groups, some of the most interesting insights come from less direct analyses. Take our three-minute rule as an example. You can learn a great deal about customers by
Recently, there has been a lot of buzz on the Internet about two similar events. What happened was basically this; The Masters of the Universe had proclaimed their decrees like dictators and the only thing
Less and More is a Dieter Rams retrospective and traveling exhibition that recently made a stop at the Design Museum London. By the way it's a great museum to visit; the last time I was there they ran a similarly theme exhibition on
A colleague recently shared with me an interesting product proposition he purchased. It's not really a product proposition as such, but an
I like to add one more point to this cool list.
Over the last few days, I conducted a whirlwind tour of the different events and exhibitions at the Singapore Design Festival 2009. There were some interesting work exhibited that reaffirmed my faith in the
Edit: Originally published Jun 29, 2006. Updated broken video links because I just bought a similar version to this toy!
I could not stop laughing after watching this. This Razor Ramon character has got
Check out Alexandros Stasinopoulos' very cool Ora watch! What is even more exciting is that Alexandros has generously shared his concept sketches so that we are able to have a deeper insight into his thinking process.
I really enjoyed this R1 Analog Radio concept by Ilgu Cha.
I'm a big fan of Haptic Design (here and here), which is a design philosophy that uses relevant tactile feedback and visual cues in
Check out this clever reinterpretation of a wall clock called QLOCKTWO by multidisciplinary design agency Biegert & Funk. The QLOCKTWO clock visually spells out the time in
Thomas Meyerhoffer, a former designer at Apple, did what any designer would do when he was not happy with a product. He created his own. In Thomas' case it was his love for surfing and
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Beautiful work by the students from The Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Ramat Gan. They were tasked by their lecturers to re-invent the Coffee (and Espresso) or Tea
Image by: tamachanhaazarashi.
Designers these days face a lot of pressure to not only do good design, but also to do the right thing. Indeed the importance of sustainable and environmentally friendly products cannot and should not be underestimated. However,
We have an interesting Design Article contribution this week by Chris Nobles, an Industrial Designer working for HJC Design in the UK. He write today about Rapid Manufacturing and its impact on our product development process. A great read with lots of technical
A couple of months ago we had an open call for guest bloggers, we had a few responses with some great ideas. This week's Design Article, written by MB, was one of them. MB has written a very powerful article on a side of design
Inspired by Jason Santa Maria's "If you were a Typeface", I thought it would be cool if we did a similar rendition but relate it to products? So consider this, if you were a product, what sort of product would you be? You
Alec Saunders has written a great article on Nokia's mobile phone product strategy. While the article just touches on Industrial Design, he gives good examples on how product strategies, combined with a good understanding of the consumer, is used to drive
A few years ago I attended a design seminar of which one of the speakers was an Innovation Manager from Philips. She spoke about the innovation process and design's role at Philips. She first described her role in the organisation and her
Welcome to part 2 of my coverage of the CeBit Australia 2007. If you have not already, do have a look at part 1 first. In this post we take a look at the rest of the show and some of my noted