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Contemporary Heritage: Expormim’s Lapala Chair at 25

Azure Magazine

Originally an indoor chair with a woven wicker seat and back, the streamlined design was a versatile blend of clean, contemporary lines and handmade production. “In those days, it was not common in industrial design to work with traditional techniques, so it was a challenge,” recalls Manel Molina.

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F5: Designer Bo Zhang’s City Walks, Street Workouts + More

Design Milk

While considering a possible career road map, he really couldn’t distinguish the difference between product design, industrial design, and furniture design. He eventually chose to study product design in Italy for its clear definition – being that every product has form, function, and the charm of art.

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Continuous design: a framework for building digital products

UX Collective

While I acknowledge that process is just one of many levers needed to create the enabling conditions for good design, I hope this framework can be a useful tool to design leaders working to improve their teams' impact, efficiency, and happiness. In these industrial-era design disciplines, 100% of design happens pre-launch.

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The forgotten benefits of “low tech” user interfaces

UX Collective

I recently led the design of a user interface for a home use medical device?—?a As on many other projects, the product managers responsible for defining initial specifications assumed the product required a capacitive touchscreen display, of similar size and resolution to a contemporary smartphone.

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The many deaths of UX design

UX Collective

Design and product management will still be very important and report to me, but those writing great code will constitute the majority of our team and have the greatest sway. Designers are part of a team involving others that have done much of the work before the designer begin”, writes Richardson.

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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. Buchanan) of design than industrial design. Early twenty-teens product zeitgeist was “getting out of the building.”

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Deconstructing Machine Learning for Product Design

UX Collective

Conclusion Design and ML are in a mutually-beneficial relationship: by using ML to inform product design and optimize the product development process, designers can create better products that meet the needs and preferences of their users; at the same time, good product design can help make machine learning more accessible and easier to use, potentially (..)