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Zaha Hadid Architects: Vertical Urbanism, the Exhibition

Design Milk

The newly opened Zaha Hadid Architects: Vertical Urbanism exhibition showcases the bold, explorative urbanism they’re known for through a variety of design strategies used to create vibrant and sustainable community-orientated spaces within densely populated urban spaces.

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Designing with the brain in mind: a deep dive into neuroaesthetics

UX Collective

In this article, I will delve deeper into the theory of neuroaesthetics, explore how our brains process beauty, and examine the implications of color, symmetry, balance, and shapes in our designs. So let’s find out how neuroscience can empower us to become better designers! And this process isn’t one-sided.

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Mitigating our impact on the planet through services

UX Collective

In this first part, I’ll focus on the scope and the opportunities to tap into service design to reduce our impact on the planet. In a future post, I will focus on the service design strategies and tools to do so. Let’s start with some context: why a technological focus alone isn’t sufficient.

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Product lessons from the history of HBO

UX Collective

Netflix launched streaming in 2007 and delivered a service that HBO couldn’t counter without disrupting its existing business model. On top of that, senior management prioritized short-term stability and considered the ideas were potential career killers. Does it sound familiar?

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How playing improvised music can train the ability to synthesize in design

UX Collective

The problem with design synthesis One of the most thought-provoking texts, that I came across recently, is the article by Jon Kolko. Jon Kolko " Design strategy, education & writing The article clarifies what synthesis in design practice is. I’ll be referring to it further. The Innovation Process (Source: Sara L.

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Where does the impetus for change come from?

UX Collective

In 2007 , it actually looked like Blockbuster was doing well. This was very much a service design strategy, but Blockbuster wasn’t prepared to implement this deep a revision. Back to 2007 and Icahn succeeded in ousting Antioco. Also in 2007, Netflix introduced streaming.