The Copenhagen-based firm Nord Architects is building a series of centers for patients with Alzheimer’s and dementia that feel more like villages or cities, rather than bleak institutions. Read more in Fast Company This “city” for people with dementia is…
The conventional interpretation of human-centered design wildly oversimplifies the relationship between people and technology. It’s time for a more nuanced approach, writes argodesign’s Mark Rolston. read about it in Fast Company The myth of human-centered design By Mark Rolston was…
Creating more collaborative, agile spaces has empowered our employees to bring their best ideas forward and given them autonomy. The old command-and-control model doesn’t work anymore. Six senior executives describe how they designed their workspaces to improve processes, and foster employee…
A new report published by Dell Technologies have also hinted that the pace of change is so fast that 85% of the jobs that will exist in 2030 have not even been invented yet.Furthermore, there is a gradual shift in…
Most organizations today still work within the paradigm of separation – as though they were made up of separate chunks, bits and pieces, departments, function. This thinking ultimately leads to silos, with all the accompanying frustration and ineffectiveness. Read more…
Amazon and Google enable shopping through their voice assistants, and major retail players, including Target, are doing the same through partnerships with these platforms. The voice space is quickly growing, and soon we’ll see many more retailers create apps that bring…
We are at the beginning of a new S-curve, one that will forever advance the way we make and trade goods enabling a new era of productivity. A new class of high-speed industrial 3D printers which are closer to a…
Design is everywhere; it’s all around us. We design our environments, our food, our virtual spaces, and even our bodies. Design is a critical form of human interaction.Whether shopping for a table, deciding on a dinner menu, or choosing a…
If he wanted to spearhead a world in which digital and analog experiences were constructed with equal focus, he needed to step outside the land of agencies and design consultancies–and into the field of architecture. Read more in Fast Co…
Amazon’s Echo Show, which can be described as a desktop PC of the future, has a screen with dimensions large enough to work as a digital frame. But while the Show can show photos, its screen has been focused on…
