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Amy Pastre and Courtney Rowson on 13 years of running a studio and where they believe design is heading next

Creative Boom

Since launching SDCO Partners in 2009, founders Amy Pastre and Courtney Rowson have designed hundreds of brands worldwide – including names like LeCreuset and Soludos – but it's their work with industry-disrupting, women-owned businesses that drives their passion. Did the global economic crisis spur you to start your agency?

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20 Essential Architecture and Design Lectures to Catch During Fall/Winter 2023

Azure Magazine

In this lecture, she speaks about designing and building in the Senegalese context, with references to its climate, culture, traditions and unique “concrete modernity.” Mboup will address working with biomaterials, passive design strategies, her various cultural projects, and her research and collaborations.

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Future London Academy's ‘Design The Future’ Global Collaboration

Abduzeedo

Future London Academy's ‘Design The Future’ Global Collaboration. Thanks to our friends at learning experience agency Future London Academy for sharing this great new collaboration with global artists and designers such as Studio Blup , Kezia Gabriella , Baugasm , David Brodeur , and Joy Li to ‘Design the future’.

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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.

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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. I was tempted to stay but I did leave R/GA and joined AKQA , an agency that was not well known at the time. During an interview with a CEO/founder of a very respected creative agency network, I got curious about how he started his own.

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How to navigate the insanity of behavioral science

UX Collective

People started using more interactive design strategies, and eventually, we reached Web 2.0 What emerged was a communication framework that I published in 2009, and then recently republished an update named, “The Interactive Behavior Change Model”. Social influence scale for technology design and transformation.