Have you ever gone grocery shopping with a grocery list of items to get, but then walked out of the store with more things than your grocery list? Grocery stores are spaces that are designed to make you spend more money. Strategic aisle placements and product positions follow a deliberate strategy rooted in consumer psychology … Weiterlesen

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “The 1930s were ripe for innovation, during the thick of the Second Industrial Revolution. Designers were captivated by the new technology of plywood bending, which allowed previously impossible forms to emerge.” How Estonia, AI gardens, and plywood make designers prolific →By

Design is, by nature, a discipline that works with imagination (Folkmann, 2010; Tully, 2012). Every act of design is, in some way, speculative, since a designer’s work consists of bringing abstract ideas to life, ideas that eventually materialize into physical reality (Auger, 2013; Ward, 2020). When a designer is developing a product, digital or otherwise, … Weiterlesen