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Good Design Can Be Taught: Ethical Design Must Be Chosen

Primum non nocere or “Do no harm” is a phrase most people recognize as the physician’s creed. It is an ethical baseline in medicine, a field where practitioners have the power of life and death in their hands regularly, if not every day. In fields like design and technology, the relationship between actions and impact is not as direct or clear, although it is certainly coming into focus. As the power that designers, programmers, and engineers weld becomes more apparent in a lightning-paced world of AI, app, and algorithm development, it is hard not to notice design ethics lag woefully behind. …

Design Thinking

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Good Design Can Be Taught: Ethical Design Must Be Chosen
Good Design Can Be Taught: Ethical Design Must Be Chosen
Design Thinking

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Jun 21

The Augmented Reality of Product Design: A Critical Look at AR’s Role and Its Hidden Bias

“The only way to predict the future is to build it.” — Alan Kay, computer scientist. June 16, 2023 As technology continues to revolutionize our lives, Augmented Reality (AR) stands at the forefront, particularly in the realm of industrial design. AR has transcended its roots as a novelty for tech…

Product Design

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The Augmented Reality of Product Design: A Critical Look at AR’s Role and Its Hidden Bias
The Augmented Reality of Product Design: A Critical Look at AR’s Role and Its Hidden Bias
Product Design

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Jun 7

Ten Statistics On Navigating Medical Device Design in 2023

Medical Device Design

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Ten Statistics On Navigating Medical Device Design in 2023
Ten Statistics On Navigating Medical Device Design in 2023
Medical Device Design

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May 8

Designing Physical Products for a Virtual World

“The people who go into the Metaverse, basically-who understand that information is power, and who control society because they have this semimystical ability to speak magic computer languages.” ― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash In 1992, American sci-fi writer Neal Stephenson coined the term “metaverse” in his book Snow Crash. It…

Design Thinking

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Designing Physical Products for a Virtual World
Designing Physical Products for a Virtual World
Design Thinking

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Apr 20

Understanding XR, AR, MR, and VR in Product Design

To understand extended reality technologies writ large, it is first essential to understand that our physical world is not reality at all. Reality is a construct; our mind’s interpretation of the so-called real world. A great example of this is the viral 2015 gold dress/blue dress photo that rocked the…

Augmented Reality

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Understanding XR, AR, MR, and VR in Product Design
Understanding XR, AR, MR, and VR in Product Design
Augmented Reality

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Mar 30

Health 4.0 Has Caught Up with Industry 4.0 (and Needs UX Design) Part 2

Cloud computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, wearables, telehealth, and mobile health apps, are all Industry 4.0 innovations seeing a rise in application in healthcare. But they also existed pre-pandemic. Now, they are experiencing a surge of integration into healthcare in response to the conditions and needs COVID created. …

UX

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Health 4.0 Has Caught Up with Industry 4.0 (and Needs UX Design) Part 2
Health 4.0 Has Caught Up with Industry 4.0 (and Needs UX Design) Part 2
UX

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Mar 28

A Short History of Generative AI

First came the computers. The idea of making machines as intelligent as humans followed soon after. The Theseus system, built by Claude Shannon, was one of the first attempts to develop intelligence in machines by creating a remote-controlled mouse that could remember its course and find its way out of…

AI

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A Short History of Generative AI-
A Short History of Generative AI-
AI

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Beyond Design Thinking

·Mar 9

White Space, Black Designers Needed

It is no secret the design industry desperately needs more black people. …

Diversity

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White Space, Black Designers Needed
White Space, Black Designers Needed
Diversity

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Beyond Design Thinking

·Feb 2

Health 4.0 Has Caught Up with Industry 4.0 (and Needs UX Design) Part 1

In 2019, Healthcare UX Designer Chris Kiess called healthcare UX “the other UX Design.” In a Pre-Covid19 era, when healthcare had yet to embrace digital innovations and ease of use as readily as other industries, such as Uber, his assessment was spot on. And then came The Great Pandemic that…

UX Design

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Health 4.0 Has Caught Up with Industry 4.0 (and Needs UX Design) Part 1
Health 4.0 Has Caught Up with Industry 4.0 (and Needs UX Design) Part 1
UX Design

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Beyond Design Thinking

·Dec 14, 2022

Four Ways Being Selfish Will Make You a Better UX Designer

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” Nope. Confucius had a lot of wise things to say, but emerging thoughts on burnout suggest this may not be one of them. In fact, for those who love their jobs, burnout is…

UX Design

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UX Design

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