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Labeling a person a consumer reduces them to a single activity in their life: buying stuff. People who like corn chips do not walk around saying, “I am a buyer of corn chips.” Read more in strategy-business Forget B2C and…

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…

In n a new study, published in the journal Motivation and Emotion, researchers from Carleton and McGill Universities in Canada asked first year students to keep a diary for seven days.In particular, the researchers wanted to know if FOMO was…

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…

There are numerous virtual reality applications that have the potential to fundamentally shape a range of industries from manufacturing to journalism, healthcare and more. Read more in Toptal Virtual Reality: Catalyzing the Future of Work By Toptal Research was last…

Four trends have emerged in Santa Clara’s robotics’ conference  that pretty well encapsulate what’s going on in robotics these days, and why the industry is growing so fast. Read about them in zdnet These four big trends are driving the…

Design Award Winners and innovative retail concepts in Retail Design Blog

At the topmost level, there are two types of people in the world: Those who think personality types can be categorized and those who can’t.  In 1985 after further research, the NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI) published. The groupings constitute…

It’s easy to assume that the most successful people are expert planners who knew exactly where they wanted to be at each point in their career. Much more often, those folks were simply open to new opportunities from the very…

The wearable tech market is still relatively young and in flux. Fitbit, the company that arguably led the first wave of interest in wearables, didn’t start making a wrist-based fitness tracker until 2013. Now, just about every major tech firm…