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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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Mass-Localised / Post-Globalised - Jan Chipchasemore

Ducked into a local media store to stock up on local tunes for an off-road trip in Oman - 90% of the content for sale...

Design Values: Quality of Data over Ease of Data Collectionmore

This is a follow-up article to John Schrag’s post on "Design Values". The original post described the values...

Psychology of Color: what is it saying about your brand?more

Color—a difference of a few shades can stimulate, depress, provoke, soothe, and even make us shiver or sweat.

Design Thinking Can Be Learnedmore

A founder of innovation firm IDEO, David Kelley also co-founded the d.school program at Stanford University.

Forging Strong Research Relationshipsmore

Ten Things - The Foundation to a Strategic Research Relationship: Be a "thought partner" with us.

Creating Priceless Valuemore

This week was a biggie - speaking at HSM World Business Forum at Radio City Music Hall in New York. I was onstage...

Research and Markets: Design Trends Report: Global & Indian Trends...more

ethnography, demography, technology and business amongst others, Design facilitates meaningful innovations to give...

What Marketers Should Know About Design Researchmore

A brief and illustrative explanation of design research approach and why it is important for businesses and marketers...

No Recession at OXOmore

kitchen and household products are winners with consumers, from its rubber-gripped potato peelers to its no-leak travel...

Learning from Apple's Design Consultantmore

The Good: A fascinating look at how Apple, Vuitton, and SAP first embraced design and profited The Bad: There are...

Human-Centered Design Research Toolkit by IDEOmore

IDEO partnered with International Development Enterprises (IDE), Heifer International, ICRW, and the Bill & Melinda...

50 Coolest Products of the 21st Century : Hot Designmore

photo collage by Alberto Mena By Tania Chen and Damian Joseph Hot Design IDEA, the International Design Excellence...

On Engineering and Design: An Open Lettermore

Well-intentioned engineers often ask me how they can become designers, or how they can "do" design.

Deconstructing Designmore

I recently attended a lecture by Edward Tufte, a driving force behind the information design movement.

The creative process for the Design Cubicle's logomore

This general overview of small-scale logo design highlights importance of review & iteration in any creative...

Gallery - Innovation: Award-winning product design of 2009 - Image 1more

Innovation: Award-winning product design of 2009 The 2009 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) competition...

Why a Loyal Customer Isn’t Always a Profitable Onemore

To be considered loyal, it shouldn’t be enough for a customer to feel a bond to a company, or to simply stick with the...

Morality and colour: Dark for dark businessmore

Some light reading from the Economist about using the color black versus the color white in business. Western culture...

How Whirlpool Puts New Ideas Through the Wringermore

In 1999, Whirlpool's (WHR) then-Chief Executive David R. Whitwam set a goal: He wanted the leading maker of big-ticket...

Ideas Project brought to you by Nokia.more

Need breakthrough ideas for the future? It is here expressed by the best Planet's mind.

Designing for government servicesmore

Part of my interest in visualizing economic data comes from my belief that interaction and information design has a lot...

Why every pupil should blogmore

exciting features. Some, dreaming of untold wealth, have even included pay-per-click advertisements! I think that has...

Inside the IDEA Design Awardsmore

The 2009 International Design Excellence Awards attracted over 1,500 entrants from around the world. The 20 judges,...

Inside the Secret Overlap Conferencemore

Here’s the problem in trying to get a group of hybrid thinkers together: standard industry events for designers,...

Why doing user observations first is wrongmore

Don Norman's approach to design research: what should come first.

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