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This Experimental Publisher Is Rethinking How Design Books Get Made

Eye on Design

Since its inception in 2009, Kickstarter has hosted approximately 3,700 campaigns centered around art books, with an estimated 500 specifically about design. That is when he realized there were other “ignored areas of publishing” that he might be able to tap into. The idea of crowdfunding books on design is no longer a new concept.

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15+ Best Design Thinking Books to Read

Inkbot Design

1 The Design Thinking Playbook: Mindful Digital Transformation of Teams, Products, Services, Businesses and Ecosystems (Design Thinking Series) Lewrick, Michael (Author) English (Publication Language) 352 Pages – 05/22/2018 (Publication Date) – Wiley (Publisher) −$11.01 $25.99

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The shape, the color, and the emotion: Angry Birds’ character design

UX Collective

They had launched several games prior to hitting it big with the original Angry Birds game in 2009. Most noticeably, Rovio created a sprawling network of merchandising partnerships and Angry Birds characters were adorning all sorts of products from plush toys and clothing to soap and cosmetics. 2016 version of Red Bird, Chuck and Bomb.

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Netflix vs. decision fatigue: How to solve the paradox of choice

UX Collective

Researchers have shown that descriptive norms are more effective than prescriptive norms (Bicchieri & Xiao, 2009). Design a new social proof, yes, but a more relevant one with users’ networks and relatives. The UX Collective donates US$1 for each article we publish. Nudges to the rescue of Netflix? Kahneman, D.

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Has the collective experience of the pandemic reset our relationship with the future?

UX Collective

Around 2009, Stuart Candy from Carnegie Mellon University presented the Future Cone as a way of depicting different kinds of potential futures. 2009) Non-Places: Introduction to Supermodernity , Verso Books. A pdf of the book can be downloaded from here [link] The UX Collective donates US$1 for each article we publish.

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A healthy social media: the UX of Strava

UX Collective

Shortly after the app was launched in 2009 they rolled out the leaderboard: Strava identifies common routes at any given map segment and displays information about the route, such as ranking all users’ performance for a given circuit or route. But they go beyond. Thanks for reading it.

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To be, or not to be: Should voice interfaces (VUIs) try to be human-like?

UX Collective

Human Assisted Robotic Linguistic Animatronic Networked Device), illustrate how synthetic voices may mimic human voices while still sounding engaging, less eerie, and natural (Aylett et al., Computer Network (CNET). As Aylett et al. Examples such as the voice for the KFC robot, H.A.R.L.A.N.D 2018; Sabelli et al., link] Francis, A.