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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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Design research: what is it and why do it?more

In a long post on reBoot, Panthea Lee has laid out some basic principles, approaches, and tools of design research so...

Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces conferencemore

DPPI 11, the 5th conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces, will take place in Milan at the end of...

Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces – conference in Milanmore

DPPI 11, the 5th conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces, will take place in Milan, Italy this year...

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.

Depth of field: Film in design researchmore

Timo Arnall and Einar Sneve Martinussen have published the article “Depth of field: discursive design research through...

Interactions magazine on human nuancesmore

The current issue of Interactions Magazine is generally on the nuances of what makes us human, writes...

Younghee Jung on design research for Nokiamore

Younghee Jung, manager and design researcher at the Nokia Research Centre in Bangalore, India, has been profiled again...

Pareekh Jain: 50 Telecom and Technology Innovations and Opportunities ...more

50 Telecom and Technology Innovations and Opportunities Based on Observations in Daily Life in India and Asia.

Design research at LIFT conferencemore

At the beginning of May, frog design partnered with the Lift conference in Geneva to conduct design research on the...

The user centered design conundrummore

Videos of IIT Design Research Conferencemore

Moving past user needsmore

Tara Mullaney (and not Allan Chochinov as erroneously reported earlier) has published her reflections on IIT’s 2010...

Embedded anthropologymore

Anthropologist Simon Roberts, who manages the social science research and design research team for Digital Health Group...

Design Research: The Way Forwardmore

(2) How Relevant is Design Research to Education; (3) Characteristics of Design Research; and (4) An Example of Design...

Junior Designermore

...demonstrate a commitment to design, research, and innovation; emphasize attention to detail; and contribute to our...

Architecture: The Art of Experiencemore

EDRA, or the Environmental Design Research Association, addresses this question and more at their yearly meetings and...

Doing User Research Faster and Cheapermore

Companies that haven't already cut user research from their project plans altogether are asking researchers to achieve...

"Ethnography: The study and systematic recording of human culture...more

Design Research > Ethnography: The study and systematic recording of human cultures for the purpose of improving...

Design Research Conference "Interview with Don Norman"more

I'm giving the opening keynote address at  IIT's Institute of Design's Design Research Conference (Chicago, May 2010).

Announcement: Idea Couture Seeks Ethnographermore

Basic film editing software skills an asset. User-centered design & research experience an asset. Previous...

Living With Dementia Demands Better Design, Says Kingston Professormore

Can Design Make a Difference?' was led by Professor Hilary Dalke, Director of the Design Research Centre at Kingston...

Aesthetic consequences of making car exteriors visually robust to...more

Design solutions on existing cars were photographed, classified and analysed in order to investigate the relationship...

IDSA design researchmore

The design research section of the IDSA now has a website. Also, the current issue of IDSA’s publication Innovation is...

Iridescent: Icograda Journal of Design Researchmore

Icograda announced its newest initiative, Iridescent: Icograda Journal of Design Research.

Design Research & Service Designmore

Alexandria (near Washington, DC), VA...

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  • thedesigncubicle.com
  • Putting people first » Emerging markets
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  • core77.com

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