Azure Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We are pleased to welcome this superlative group of leaders in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, interiors and product and furniture design to adjudicate the submissions to our international program, now in its 13th year. In 2012 Barber Osgerby launched the strategy-based industrial design consultancy Map Project Office.

Architecture 97

Architecture Arts and Crafts Exhibition Manufacturing 97

Inkbot Design

JANUARY 17, 2024

They upend the status quo with game-changing products, services, or business models. Let’s find out… Defining Disruptive Innovation For a company to be considered genuinely disruptive, it has to do more than just introduce a new product or incremental innovation. But what exactly makes a company “disruptive”?

Internet and Software Development 82

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UX Collective

JUNE 5, 2022

If we take a look at the layouts of some metaverse platforms, we can see the opposite pattern. Also, the limited supply of virtual lands created a man-made scarcity that drives the price to soar, increasing the bar for the general public to participate in the creation of metaverse. Why do we need “lands” in the metaverse?

Internet and Software Development 127

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UX Collective

DECEMBER 20, 2021

For the creation of an idea and formation of a subsequent product, these 3 spaces and general activities can be stated as (Brown, 2008): Inspiration : Look at the world : Observe what people do, how they think and what they want. It brings the patterns, strategies, principles and functions found in nature to inform design.

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UX Collective

MAY 16, 2021

Interview with Lena Sotto Mayor about her iterative career journey to become a lead product designer. Born in Manaus, Amazonas, Lena is a Lead Product Designer at Globo, designing the future of sports consumption on digital products. Previously, Lena has worked at major companies like Nokia and Microsoft.

Production 82

Production Sports Digital Publishing 82

Inkbot Design

JUNE 28, 2022

The term “brand personality” refers to a product's characteristics and traits that influence how consumers think and feel about the brand. A brand is simply the name of a product or company, representing the company, its goods or services, and its values. I am going to show you how. What is Brand Personality?

Brand 93

Brand Branding Marketing Marketing 93

Inkbot Design

JANUARY 2, 2024

Logos are designed to be the public-facing encapsulation of the brand image. This period saw an expansion of the middle class, wider fashion consumption, and garment production innovation. Almost instantly, public opinion tanked. Simple, bold symbols and noticeable graphic patterns suit mobile contexts.

Fashion 62

Fashion Brand Branding Digital 62

UX Collective

JULY 26, 2021

Concentrating on the social, political and cultural relevance ingrained within these settings through their history, present and uncertain future and compiling our findings through our designed publication: BY ORDER. While the future demolition of the estate was decided in 2012, it wasn’t until 2017 that the demolition began.

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Inkbot Design

MAY 29, 2023

They're like these timeless patterns that reflect how we behave, what motivates us, and what we desire. When that happens, it's like a spark ignites, and the brand becomes more than just a product or service—it becomes a symbol of identity and fulfilment. It's fascinating how they capture these fundamental aspects of our nature.

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Inkbot Design

JANUARY 20, 2024

Revitalise Stale Perceptions: Logo makeovers stir up publicity and help re-energise consumer impressions of tired or dated brands. Spotlight visual updates as supporting product improvements and cultural initiatives core to company priorities. Critics accused Dunkin’ of promoting racist cultural stereotypes.

Brand 83

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UX Collective

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

To paraphrase a famous Cybernetician, Gordan Pask, ‘all products are a result of a process, and all processes result in a product’. What’s missing is the overarching system model of the commercial context, the user context and the product delivery context, and how they form parts of one system. Much is missing.

Production 101

Production Product Management Patterns Education 101

Shillington

APRIL 18, 2023

His incredible knowledge of design, production, printing and illustration helped to spread the message of the BPP and was instrumental in its success—finding new ways to spread the word. His work includes branding, publications, installations and digital experiences.

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Azure Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2021

Since 2012, Nigerian architect and NLÉ founder Kunlé Adeyemi has been developing iteration after iteration of the Makoko Floating System: a scheme of rapidly-deployable prefabricated timber components. In other words, our 10 most anticipated projects of 2021 are arriving just in time. Floating Music Hub by NLÉ, Lagos, Nigeria. PHOTO: NLÉ.

Architecture 101

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UX Collective

JUNE 25, 2022

That was the question I attempted to answer in the first publication of my PhD, with the specific aim of identifying convergence on a design idea. To assess how useful this data would be in studying designer processes, we chose an exploratory case study: modelling the convergence and divergence throughout the product design process.

Production 95

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UX Collective

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The term aesthetic refers to the appearance of sensory or intellectual appeal in the user experience of a product. Anton Nikolov listed the sensory qualities that different types of products could have: color, shape, texture, movement. For an interface to be a source of sensory pleasure, the designer has a few levers.

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UX Collective

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Obviously, we haven’t seen a real “metaverse” product yet, and it’s unlikely to see such a product in 3–5 years. In this article, I’d like to sketch out my envision for 3D design systems from a high level through pattern theory to useful practical techniques like generative art and artificial intelligence applications.

Internet and Software Development 90

Internet and Software Development Patterns Arts and Crafts Architecture 90

UX Collective

JUNE 12, 2022

Rather than solely focusing on product characteristics and features, an authentic and creative narrative can convey brand values and connect with the target audience in a more strategic way. Still based on Headstream’s findings, if people really love a brand’s story, over half (55%) are likelier to buy the product in the future.

Arts and Crafts 104

Arts and Crafts Marketing Marketing Brand 104

crowdspring

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

In 2015 Nerdwallet.com chose it as one of the best places to start a business, as well as the #1 city for female entrepreneurs, and for good reason: It’s an affluent urban center and was ranked as one of the top 20 most productive metro areas in terms of GDP. It’s no wonder so many entrepreneurs launch their startup in Boulder.

Education 92

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Inkbot Design

MARCH 23, 2023

No, we'll explore different revenue streams and strategies, from selling your products to building a passive income. Affiliate Programs: Designers can participate in affiliation programs on sales pages or websites, selling products from third-party platforms that offer a commission or promoting software.

Freelance 84

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UX Collective

JANUARY 19, 2022

Going beyond that limit would require a lot of repositioning and head movement which makes for great Hollywood drama but bad product ergonomics. Fewer displays means less complexity to manage and therefore better productivity. Besides, there is a max number of displays that can fit comfortably side by side within one’s field of view.

Production 141

Production Publication Patterns Entertainment 141

UX Collective

JUNE 25, 2023

Gone are the days of skeuomorphism, and in comes flat design—a pragmatic but tasteful approach for digital products to experience an “ Ulm ” way of seeing through the eyes of Jony Ives and his inspiration, Dieter Rams. A journey to learn and grow in our skills as digital product designers. And we set off on a journey.

Adobe 112

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UX Collective

JUNE 1, 2021

How does culture even affect the experience of a product? Experience and design are equally important for a product. But, does this product serve people’s needs or provide a solution? To create useful products for society, finding out which factors are more meaningful for the user and how these factors affect them is critical.

Production 107

Production Color Color Schemes Publication 107

Shillington

MAY 5, 2021

The bold diagonals that dominate this product packaging design evoke the stripes seen on snacks sold at the circus, carnivals and baseball games. But they didn’t want the public to perceive them as second-best. Nourish Snacks , a food company founded by nutritionist Joy Bauer, was looking to appeal to more consumers. Cloud & Co.

Packaging Design 85

Packaging Design Arts and Crafts Production Brand 85

Azure Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

2012: Sunset Chapel by BNKR Arquitectura (Best in Commercial Buildings Stepping into a diamond-shaped funeral chapel made entirely of concrete, you might assume that its interior would be just as heavy and imposing as its exterior. 2021: Matheson Cookware (Best in Interior Products) Leave it to Matty Matheson.

Architecture 91

Architecture Arts and Crafts Programming Art 91

Inkbot Design

JANUARY 4, 2024

Viral marketing refers to marketing techniques that seek to spread information about a product or service from person to person as a virus spreads from one host to another. Case Study: Dollar Shave Club Dollar Shave Club launched in 2012 with a viral product demo video that exploded, triggering 12,000 orders within 48 hours.

Marketing 77

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UX Collective

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Human development has been made, but the public has imagined the worst consequences of this progress, believing that automation would be used everywhere and AI will replace human positions. Create a new frame ; Recognize patterns, discover themes, and find significance in all we’ve seen, collected, and observed.

Patterns 137

Patterns Digital Design Strategy Travel 137

UX Collective

JANUARY 28, 2023

The importance of empathy is well-established in Design Thinking³, and is fundamental to both user research, UX, Service and Product Design. And we are each a product of this. An actor practices ‘Solitude in public’. “…we must empathise not simply scrutinise with the cold detachment of statisticians” (ibid, 56).

Art 80

Art Arts and Crafts Self-employed Production 80

UX Collective

AUGUST 22, 2022

More recently, critics such as Mark Fisher have discussed Hauntology in the context of describing contemporary culture’s persistent re-cycling of retro aesthetics and what he considered to be an inability to escape old social forms (Fisher, 2012). In his 2012 paper entitled What is Hauntology?, This is typified by Waste!

Presentation 85

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UX Collective

AUGUST 28, 2023

Perceptions of workplace discrimination are associated with poor mental health and could affect employee morale and worker productivity. Birmingham City Council has paid out almost £1.1bn in equal pay claims since 2012. To put universal job evaluation to the test, I conducted two workshops with 13 members of the public in London.

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UX Collective

JANUARY 2, 2024

From the shadows on the wall in Plato’s allegory of the cave to Neil Postman’s warning that we are ‘amusing ourselves to death’ (Postman 2006) with entertainment, concerns over media, distraction, and attention linger in our public discourse. This article explores how a larger ecosystem around attention works using three product case studies.

Internet and Software Development 92

Internet and Software Development Self-employed Publication Production 92

Shillington

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Modernist aesthetics in architecture, art and product design are familiar to many. This unprecedented publication, authored by Jens Müller, brings together approximately 6,000 trademarks, focused on the period 1940–1980, to examine how modernist attitudes and imperatives gave birth to corporate identity. Buy the book. Buy the book.

Graphic Design 140

Graphic Design Graphic Arts and Crafts Publishing 140

Shillington

JUNE 14, 2021

His incredible knowledge of design, production, printing and illustration helped to spread the message of the BPP and was instrumental in its success—finding new ways to spread the word. British designer, art director, illustrator and artist Kate Moross has been running their own studio, Studio Moross, since 2012. Kate Moross.

Graphic Design 145

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