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Create something onto which others can base their assumptions. Nobody will do it for you.
If you want to design for sustainability, you can't just keep doing what you've always done.
Despite all the structure and process that can go along with design, sometimes it's ok to go on feels alone.
Just because the product is slapping you on the wrist, doesn't mean it's your fault.
How to Import Meshes and Make Better Decisions for Self-Reliance
A glossary of terms I use throughout this blog which may not be familiar to some readers. Continually updated.
Retrospective Series: Republishing some of my original articles when I first started Virtimachi in 2021.
Retrospective Series: Republishing some of my original articles when I first started Virtimachi in 2021.
What is taste in a world of tasteless hype? And importantly, what do we do about it?
How do the tools we use change our designs as they exit our heads?
Is a degree still a necessary investment for a career in Industrial Design?
What makes a thing seem pricey might have little to do with the actual thing.
A behind-the-scenes look at how the magic happens *cough*
Do we control the tools we use as designers? Or do they control us?
Frontend Design is the design work that takes you from having a problem, to knowing how to solve it.
There is only so much you can achieve by thinking and planning and refining. It's often much better to start, and learn by doing.
Everywhere you look the products we use are crappier than ever because they've lost the part that made them good in the first place.
Implementing a design is orders of magnitude more difficult than just creating a design.
The subscription model is everywhere. Could it really apply to Industrial Design?
Sure, letters and numbers are pretty standard, but they are not standard.
Obround: noun. (geometry) A shape consisting of two semicircles connected by parallel lines tangent to their endpoints.
How do you think the "person that designs the pretty box around it" reputation came to be? We gave it to ourselves.
It can be utterly disheartening when the development process doesn't fit within the confines of those well-illustrated tetragons.
Trying to diagnose a computer problem through a telephone with an inexperienced "technician" on the other end is exactly like playing charades.
If we want consumers to buy domestically produced goods, consumers need to be 'untrained' out of buying lots of cheap junk.
Part two of taking your proof of concept and levelling it up. Creating your design and prototyping.
So you have a proof of concept, but what do you do next? In two parts, I'll go over the process of levelling up your prototype. Design inputs and ideation.
This is not my weigh-in on the AI vs art debate. That debate will rage for many years to come. There is, however, a third side to the argument that nobody is arguing about. Consumers.
Most people are too busy to realise the products they use everyday are just a little bit off.
Assuming you’re in the business of making goods (like maybe medical devices), the right design decisions at the right time can mean the difference between a business being a success, and a business continuing to struggle.
Avoid changing a given situation before you understand some of the reasons why it's remained unchanged for so long
Take that clever little bit of wit, that sentence, or that idea that you keep hanging onto, and delete it.
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