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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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Will design researchers (and our models and explanations) be replaced by data tables and “experience actuaries” that...
A few days before the EPIC conference in Savannah, Chicago’s IIT Institute of Design organised and hosted its yearly...
Mind Design, the Design Research Webzine of the Danish Centre for Design Research, contains a wealth of information,...
Tips on Prototyping for Usability Testing By Jim Ross, Principal of Design Research at Electronic Ink, Philadelphia,...
Having made two documentaries about Battersea Power Station, film maker Kevin Murphy describes his experience with the...
Jim Ross, Principal of Design Research at Electronic Ink, thinks contextual inquiry is the most difficult user research...
Jan Chipchase, Frog Design’s Executive Creative Director for Global Insights, continues his argumentation on the...
Jim Ross, Principal of Design Research at Electronic Ink, provides a good technical overview on the methods of...
Donald A. Norman (of the Nielsen Norman Group) and Roberto Verganti (Politecnico di Milano) have jointly published a...
Jan Chipchase thinks that 80 to 90% of current recruiting for design research/ethnographic studies (excluding focus...
Recently Dianna Miller had a chance to talk to Genevieve Bell, anthropologist and researcher, and the director of Intel...
The market research industry is built for the 20th Century mass production model, which is rapidly disappearing, argues...
In a long post on reBoot, Panthea Lee has laid out some basic principles, approaches, and tools of design research so...
DPPI 11, the 5th conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces, will take place in Milan at the end of...
DPPI 11, the 5th conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces, will take place in Milan, Italy this year...
Jeroen Van Geel of Johnny Holland interviewed Donald Norman about innovation, design research, and emotional design.
Timo Arnall and Einar Sneve Martinussen have published the article “Depth of field: discursive design research through...
The current issue of Interactions Magazine is generally on the nuances of what makes us human, writes...
Younghee Jung, manager and design researcher at the Nokia Research Centre in Bangalore, India, has been profiled again...
50 Telecom and Technology Innovations and Opportunities Based on Observations in Daily Life in India and Asia.
At the beginning of May, frog design partnered with the Lift conference in Geneva to conduct design research on the...
Tara Mullaney (and not Allan Chochinov as erroneously reported earlier) has published her reflections on IIT’s 2010...
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