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This is why I don’t call myself a service designer any more

UX Collective

The road to design maturity gets longer The inflation of design as a profession and why I no longer call myself a service designer Photo is by Jan Huber from Unsplash I love doing service design. Courses like these work as a wonderful form of marketing and extra income source as well as a way of HR tool for recruits.

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40 Best Creative Podcasts To Liven Up Your Day

Shillington

In his 2015 book, Design Your Life, Vince Frost laid out his central idea that design thinking can apply to everything from business to life. Design Matters. In 2005, Debbie Millman started a radio show, Design Matters, which became the first-ever of the design and creative podcasts. Listen here.

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The waves of research practice

UX Collective

A few agencies with permanent usability labs ran tests at high rates our team couldn’t afford; within the next few years a number of tech companies would have their own on-premise usability rooms and dedicated lab space. Buchanan) of design than industrial design. Interaction was a “higher order” (cf.

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Women You Should Know in Graphic Design History

Tuts Plus

A visionary in the 1950s, she made use of graphic design to create clean and efficient directional signs in many major airports and stations, as well as Madison Square Garden. She was trained at the Yale University School of Art and Architecture, and her first job was working alongside industrial designer George Nelson.

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The 25 Most Famous Graphic Designers of All Time

Inkbot Design

He may not have a cape, but he has saved many a book from obscurity with his superhuman design skills! Sale Chip Kidd: Book One: Work: 1986-2006 Hardcover Book Kidd, Chip (Author) English (Publication Language) 400 Pages – 09/27/2005 (Publication Date) – Rizzoli (Publisher) −$20.05 $44.95

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A creative’s guide on starting a company

UX Collective

I was an inexperienced creative director at R/GA , one of the most respected digital agencies. That felt uncomfortable to me so I ended up talking openly to Bob Greenberg , my boss at the time and an absolute industry legend, about how I should think about my future. PJ had started his agency five or so years prior and was doing well.

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Where did this interaction come from??—?a brief history of interaction design

UX Collective

was released for electronic art, new media art, and visual design communities. The second was in 2005 , when the Arduino — an open-source electronic platform (microcontroller) developed at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in Italy?—?came The notion of interaction design is shaped by various artists and computer scientists.