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Society drives how we build products, create brands, and design experiences

UX Collective

If a brand is more important than the product, then is the experience more important than the brand? If the products are similar, what makes them unique? What does the user or customer find important — The brand, the product, or the experience? Conversely, can a negative brand image make a great product obsolete?

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The origins of product design

UX Collective

And like some of you converted UX designers, I did want to design products when I grew up. Physical products, appliances, shiny, rounded edges, ergonomic buttons, clever interfaces. At the time I didn’t know that this discipline was known as industrial design. Along his trajectory as the first?—?and

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Product Breakdowns Expose the Wasteful Side of Industrial Design in Stop Motion Animation by Dina Amin

Colossal

Industrial designer Dina Amin takes discarded consumer products apart to see exactly what makes them tick. The pieces then reassemble to form the finished product. “On Fridays I pick a random product, I disassemble it, examine it and make a stop motion story with its parts,” Amin shares on her website.

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Reflections of a product designer

UX Collective

hashtag zoom responsive internet bitmap of Christopher Smith ;) Recently, I’ve been talking to larger teams so I can work on more impactful products with greater reach and get back into more mentorship opportunities. My small design company, Adjust Creative , is just that—a small company. tldr; I love design, art, and technology.

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Product Designers are your team’s Jedi Knights

UX Collective

I love Star Wars, and I love design. So, naturally, I needed to write this piece comparing digital product designers and Jedi Knights. ?? Product designers–practitioners of design thinking and masters of the pixel. Humility and detachment Designers create products and services used by real people.

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Product design is going down a weird path, but we can still save it

UX Collective

But then you look at most of the digital products around and… they're not so impressive anymore, are they? All products look the same anyway, who cares? And this would only take 3 hours instead of a full year of work, and only one designer instead of a hundred. There’s art in design, and there’s design in art.

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How Design Makes Us Think — Book by Princeton Architectural Press

We And The Color

How Design Makes Us Think: And Feel and Do Things, a book by graphic designer Sean Adams and published by Princeton Architectural Press. How Design Makes Us Think, a book published by Princeton Architectural Press. How Design Makes Us Think, a book published by Princeton Architectural Press.