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WHEREWEDOWHATWEDO is a community-built visual database of the spaces in which we spend our days, nights or both doing whatever it is we do. (via pnuk)
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”jive is a range of devices that you buy your grandparents. To let them keep up to date and stay in touch with you.” Social media does not exclude older people.
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Researchers have reasoned that people often switch between tasks when they finish an individual subtask. They argue that humans use two independent bases to decide when to switch between tasks – both ”giving up time” and the completion of a subtask.
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Why do Estonians and South Koreans love cell phones, PCs, and the Internet? They both have agile governments, strong offline social networks, and major upheavals in living memory. Could turmoil be good for preparing people for disruptive technologies?
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When committing to customer-centered development (of a product, service, website, or whatever), it’s important to stay strategic, always try to improve the business, and listen to customers (as human beings, not as users of a tool).
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”You don’t design a house for a gender. There is no such thing as gender for a car interior.”
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Gender-based features reinforce stereotypes. Gender-based design is about recognizing systemic patterns and alleviating the burden of them. Not all women like pink. And so on. This is so right on that I would scream if it didn’t mess up my lipstick.
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Creative professionals seem to have a special relationship with the clock, whether because of the nature of the work or because of the nature of the worker – figuring out The Trick to being productive all day, every day, is of great concern.
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The article is a holistic and cultural introduction to formgiving in Chinese product design, both theoretical and practical. The aim of this text is thus to explain why form in Chinese product design is where it is today in a cultural and social context.
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Innovatiivisia tiimejä syntyy, kun riittävän heterogeeniset asiantuntijat yhdistävät voimansa ja ovat motivoituneita tavoittelemaan yhteisä päämäärää. Asenteiden on kuitenkin oltava kohdallaan.
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”There are lots of reasons to believe that a wider use of mobile and ubiquitous technology will create better communicative environments in Japan and elsewhere. But it is simplistic to assume that the mobile phone itself can solve the deep-rooted problem of digital inequality.”
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”In the gas station, I watched a group of 20 scared people not take shelter, but stand in front of a wall of glass to record the event – to make some YouTube clips.”
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Design is an investment, with returns. The returns come in three categories: 1. increased sales/distribution, especially in a viral environment 2. reduced after-sale costs 3. reduced churn.