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Don Norman and the Emotional Side of Design

Inkbot Design

Don Norman and the Emotional Side of Design Design has always gone beyond pure functionality. The emotional experience of using a product can be just as necessary. In the late 1990s, design researcher Don Norman highlighted this critical insight by coining the influential concept of “emotional design.”

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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. When I looked up the available MSC programs, I was immediately drawn to Product Service System Design.

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Reflections of a product designer

UX Collective

hashtag zoom responsive internet bitmap of Christopher Smith ;) Recently, I’ve been talking to larger teams so I can work on more impactful products with greater reach and get back into more mentorship opportunities. My small design company, Adjust Creative , is just that—a small company. tldr; I love design, art, and technology.

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The Best Graphic Design Books to Buy

Inkbot Design

100 Habits of Successful Graphic Designers: Insider Secrets on Working Smart and Staying Creative. This book contains quotes from noteworthy designers, both past and present, working in fields ranging from graphic design, fashion, architecture, typography, and industrial design. −$35.05. Buy on Amazon.

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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. Adventures in Design.

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Dot Dot Dot Is the Most Influential Design Magazine You’ve Never Heard Of

Eye on Design

This rigorous meta-analysis immediately inserted Dot Dot Dot into the lineage of design journalism and set the tone for its entire run of 20 issues which were released biannually from 2000 to 2010. Certainly, if you were a particular type of designer in the early 2000s, Dot Dot Dot was the most exciting publication you could find. “We

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The waves of research practice

UX Collective

The current wave is cresting, ready to wash over software design and product management. And third-wave research will reach even higher, moving into product and organizational strategy. There’s known value here, but no shared and understood model of how research work works in the product-sphere.