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An evolution in the making; from designing things to designing experiences.

Posted by: Jesse Diephuis, at 1:42 pm on April 19, 2011

Conditions are ripe for collaborative design to take place in creating solutions beyond Industrial Design programs and outside of traditional R&D centers of Automotive OEMs.

The phenomenon of cheaper, faster, better (better in terms of having more options) is more a result of global economics than it is a corporate mandate.  If you think about Bauhaus (the origins of Industrial Design) and how it was intended to provide a social service of making houses and household product...

Articles, Consumer Electronics, Entertainment, Featured Articles, Social Media, Technology, Web

Information Overload and the Great Purge of 2011

Posted by: Adam Rubin, at 4:13 pm on December 27, 2010

More is not always better, because there’s only so much that we can digest. The signal to noise ratio does not necessarily improve if that which was once signal converts to noise as new signals are introduced into the system.

There is no shortage of recommendation tools on the web. Amazon recommends books, Pandora recommends music, YouTube recommends video, just to name a few of the more popular online services. While the added value is obvious in the realm of personalized content discovery, if we keep adding streams of...

Articles, Consumer Electronics, Featured Articles, Technology

My Belated CES 2010 Trip Report: The iPad wasn’t there.

Posted by: Richard Lee, at 2:09 pm on February 18, 2010

After visiting CES last month, my boss suggested I write a blog post on some of the most interesting things I saw there.   The problem was, though, when I thought about many of the things that were supposedly the unofficial theme of this year’s show (e.g. 3D TV, Web TV, e-Readers) my reaction was…...