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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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How will Big Data change design research?more

Dave McColgin of Artefact writes about the relationship of design research to the ultimate outcome-focused research...

How will big data change design research?more

Will design researchers (and our models and explanations) be replaced by data tables and “experience actuaries” that...

Core77 report on the Design Research Conferencemore

A few days before the EPIC conference in Savannah, Chicago’s IIT Institute of Design organised and hosted its yearly...

UX articles and dissertations from Denmarkmore

Mind Design, the Design Research Webzine of the Danish Centre for Design Research, contains a wealth of information,...

Five new articles on UX Mattersmore

Tips on Prototyping for Usability Testing By Jim Ross, Principal of Design Research at Electronic Ink, Philadelphia,...

Battersea Power Station - Electric Investment to Iconic Landmarkmore

Having made two documentaries about Battersea Power Station, film maker Kevin Murphy describes his experience with the...

Why are contextual inquiries so difficult?more

Jim Ross, Principal of Design Research at Electronic Ink, thinks contextual inquiry is the most difficult user research...

Imperialist Tendencies, Part 2: A Backgrounder for Corporate Design Re...more

Jan Chipchase, Frog Design’s Executive Creative Director for Global Insights, continues his argumentation on the...

Capturing user researchmore

Jim Ross, Principal of Design Research at Electronic Ink, provides a good technical overview on the methods of...

Donald A. Norman and Roberto Verganti on incremental vs radical innova...more

Donald A. Norman (of the Nielsen Norman Group) and Roberto Verganti (Politecnico di Milano) have jointly published a...

Tapping social networks for design research recruiting, by Jan Chipcha...more

Jan Chipchase thinks that 80 to 90% of current recruiting for design research/ethnographic studies (excluding focus...

On Culture and Interaction Design: an interview with Genevieve Bellmore

Recently Dianna Miller had a chance to talk to Genevieve Bell, anthropologist and researcher, and the director of Intel...

The birth (and death) of market research: why design research will pre...more

The market research industry is built for the 20th Century mass production model, which is rapidly disappearing, argues...

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...

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  • Putting people first » Emerging markets
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  • Inderscience
  • Sarah's Musings

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