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Watch “Design for meaningful growth” talk with Vijay Chakravarthy

In this talk at IxDA’s Interaction’19, Vijay Chakravarthy proposes a shift in the kind of research required to operate this framework while making a case for rethinking ideation and implementation. This will require service designers to think ahead of the curve and collaborate with domain experts to implement relevant strategies.

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Design Readings Software

Watch Dan Saffer’s “Microinteractions: Design with Details” talk at UXLX

In this talk at UX Lisbon, Dan Saffer provides a new way of thinking about designing digital products: as a series of microinteractions that are essential to bringing personality and delight to applications and devices […]

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Consumer Behavior Design Innovation

“People Can’t Tell You What They Want”, and nine other design research myths

Chris Rockwell’s (Lextant) IDSA conference presentation ‘People Can’t Tell You What They Want‘ on design research myths is available via SlideShare. Rockwell goes on challenging the now cliche notion that ‘people can’t tell you what they want’ (Myth #2), which has been used as a rallying cry for observational research over interviews and focus groups. In fact both interviews and observations are effective and have their place when done appropriately (and in most cases, co-exist) […]

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Design Information Technology Innovation

“How to Make Good Design Decisions”, by Dan Saffer

About a year and a half ago, when Dan Saffer — experience design director of Adaptive Path — first started thinking about the material that would eventually become ‘UX Intensive: Interaction Design‘, he wondered what it was that helped designers make those leaps of faith, the great guesses, that we have to make on projects. So he came up with this talk, ‘How to Make Good Design Decisions‘ […]