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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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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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F5: Michael DiTullo Favors Local Coffee Shops, Good Playlists + More

Design Milk

Prior to starting his eponymous design studio, Michael was Chief Design Officer for Sound United, the parent company of Denon, where he oversaw the industrial design, UX, packaging, product management, and marketing creative.

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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. The first wave of research, receding now, grew from academia.

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What does it mean to design urban technology?

UX Collective

This post is a report-to-date of our thinking on the nature of design in urban technology. We’re combining service, strategic design, and product management, all with a focus on urban needs. For more on these, see the recently published book, Design for Social Innovation , which I co-edited).

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The extended designer, and the design machine

UX Collective

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. Glanville, R.

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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.