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DESIGN RESEARCH

Design research is a relatively new approach to design aimed at investigating customers’ needs. It is an essential part of new product development, since it facilitates the most difficult stage in creating a new product -- the front end of innovation at which customer needs are identified and synthesized in the design brief. Unlike a market research approach, design research understands people and practices in the context of their whole life, not a narrowly defined customer experience.

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Invention Machine today announced Goldfire Connect, new software to help manufacturers accelerate productivity &...

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If you have a website or are researching websites, you’re sure to have heard the term SEO bandied about quite a bit.

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The Innovation Genome Projectmore

Innovation! If there’s one word that can get people from all walks of life excited these days, that’s the one. CEOs.

New Year, New Markets: 5 Steps to Successful Market Entrymore

To overcome the obstacles to new market entry, companies should follow 5 steps to position themselves for innovation...

Customer Intimacy and Empathy are Keys to Innovationmore

Just because a company is spending money on research (such as markets, customers, or new technologies) and development...

Moving Beyond Corporate R&D - GE Stylemore

Dr. Carlos J. Haertel, Managing Director, GE Global Research Center Europe shared his views on the roles of corporate...

The Deep Web: Semantic Search Takes Innovation to New Depthsmore

The Deep Web houses 96% of publicly accessible content on the Web. Semantic question-answering technology can mine that...

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Prior to 1990, most cars on the road relied on a mechanical device called a carburetor to deliver fuel to the engine.

Using Storyboards and Sentiment Charts to Quantify Customer Experience...more

In the fields of user experience and service design, we use storyboards to illustrate our solutions, so clients can...

The Power of Observationmore

Many innovative new products have their genesis in simple observation. Observation reveals unmet user needs, problems...

Research Guidelines You Won’t Find in a Textbook: UXmattersmore

“There are some key principles you should keep in mind that you aren’t likely to discover in any textbook….

Designing the User Experience at Autodesk: Method 18 of 100: The User/...more

100 User Experience (UX) Design and Evaluation Methods for Your Toolkit by Chauncey Wilson This is the 18th in a series...

Psychological Usability Heuristicsmore

Some time ago, Susan Weinschenk wrote about the psychologist’s view of UX design, listing a number of facts about the...

Learning the Subject Matter | Johnny Hollandmore

Learning the subject matter is a special challenge for consultants and freelancers who work with a variety of clients...

Design research and innovation: an interview with Don Normanmore

Jeroen Van Geel of Johnny Holland interviewed Donald Norman about innovation, design research, and emotional design.

Interview: Tim Brown of IDEO on 'Design Thinking'more

In a recent interview, IDEO CEO Tim Brown explained how design thinking can be used not only to design compelling new...

The Dangers of Design Researchmore

What is design research? It is generally referred to as the upfront contextual inquiry work that designers perform...

Design Thinking is Not a Failed Experimentmore

This is my response to Bruce Nussbaum’s latest Fast Company’s blog declaring “Design Thinking” is over and that he is...

What Good is Design Research?more

(By Adam Richardson) A recent article by Don Norman brings up some valuable and provocative questions about the value...

More Reasons Creativity Sucks: Creative People Seen as Having Less Lea...more

Ever since the days when I was writing Weird Ideas That Work, I have been careful to point out various ways that...

Blogging Innovation: What is Design Thinking?more

If you're a businessperson or someone interested in understanding how to facilitate innovation, you've probably heard...

Is Artistic Thinking the New Design Thinking?more

Executives are increasingly convinced that businesses are not merely offering functional devices or products to help...

Future of Buyer Personas is Social- Part 5 (6 Essentials To Embedding ...more

This is the fifth and final part of a series of reflective articles on the future of buyer personas in the social age.

Buyer Persona Insights: Reinvent B2B Sales With Buyer Personasmore

Image via Wikipedia Without question, while B2B Marketing is focused on developing its new prominence in the early...

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