UX Collective

JANUARY 25, 2022

We’ve recently launched a new degree program in Urban Technology at University of Michigan that combines urbanism, technology, and design. But what does design mean in this context? Like many aspects of creating a new transdisciplinary degree program from scratch, a simple question has been somewhat less simple to answer.

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Internet and Software Development Arts and Crafts Programming Education 98

Design Milk

DECEMBER 10, 2024

How does your background influence your process, and the finished product? I originally went to Business School, dropped out, discovered industrial design, and kind of started over. Most of my friends that I went to high school with that went through four year programs were just finishing at that time.

Manufacturing 274

Manufacturing Client Interior Design Product Management 274

UX Collective

MAY 10, 2023

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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Internet and Software Development Product Management Production Marketing 121

UX Collective

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Something we see often in the majority of the processes within the Double-Diamond, and often in the processes used by Product Managers to make good value-based judgements. Even tools that have changed the game for Architects and Industrial Designers such as AutoCAD have not achieved such a lofty aim.

Production 72

Production Arts and Crafts Architecture Presentation 72

UX Collective

DECEMBER 24, 2022

Deconstructing machine learning for product design How data and design can collaborate in user-centric products The intersection of AI and design is a unique one: on one hand are the data matrices and Ex Machina robots being programmed at 3am, and on the other are the color theories and UI mockups being concocted in Figma.

Production 98

Production Programming Product Management Color Theory 98

UX Collective

MARCH 16, 2025

The cognitive dissonance of no-code designers A funny thing has happened in the design world. Industrial designers dont just create wild, unbuildable chair concepts and assume factories will make itwork. But heres the problemdesign, at its core, has always been constrained by medium and execution.

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Coding Digital Layout Product Management 105