As an Asian, I love soy sauce. That’s what I grew up with and continue to use it regularly in my own cooking. So it was a pleasant surprise that I came across two very interesting clips. The first one talks about how a method to make soy sauce has survived centuries and generations in […]
A 750-year-old soy sauce secret and an iconic product design — Minh Quang Duong
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How Can Service Design Help Your Business? — Market Business News
In 2018, 73% of owners thought about investing in design to help their company stand out. Lately, we have seen service design rank as one of the top priorities for many businesses. There are a couple of reasons for that increased interest. The most important by far is that no matter how well-organized businesses are, […]
How Can Service Design Help Your Business? — Market Business News
Back Market raises another $335 million for its refurbished device marketplace, now valued at $3.2B — TechCrunch
French startup Back Market — a marketplace for refurbished electronics goods — has raised a $335 million Series D funding round led by General Atlantic. Today’s funding round values the startup — which says it now has 5 million customers globally — at $3.2 billion, the company said. It will be using the funding to…
Back Market raises another $335 million for its refurbished device marketplace, now valued at $3.2B — TechCrunch
This is your brain on Zoom — TechCrunch
We all know these constant video calls are doing something to our brains. How else could we get tired and frazzled from sitting around in our own home all day? Well, now Microsoft has done a little brain science and found out that yeah, constant video calls do increase your stress and brain noise. Tell…
This is your brain on Zoom — TechCrunch
Weekly Learning: Design, Measurement, Hype, and Captaincy — Noah Fang
Framing Design in Business A new model of the design process provides an interesting perspective to look at design in business. Firstly, design happens on three levels: strategic, tactical, and operational: Then it gets interesting when those three levels intersect with each other: The six areas derived from the intersections ask different questions regarding design’s […]
Weekly Learning: Design, Measurement, Hype, and Captaincy — Noah Fang
The fight for women’s freedoms: Looking back at history through photography — 1854 Photography
Reading Time: 8 minutes Nearly 60 years after the women’s liberation movement, women’s rights over their bodies are still pendular. Bodily autonomy is under constant threat. Despite the active dismantling of the gender binary and the affirmation of trans lives, mainstream culture is only just beginning to push beyond European standards of beauty historically grounded…
The fight for women’s freedoms: Looking back at history through photography — 1854 Photography
Unleash Innovation with Ideation Techniques — Danielle McGuire
Ideation is the phase of the design thinking process where creative solutions are generated. The main focus of ideation is to uncover a large number of ideas by exploring different angles and perspectives. Constantly striving for innovative solutions is challenging. Ideation techniques help your team tackle creative obstacles and develop sharp solutions. Ideation Prep When […]
Unleash Innovation with Ideation Techniques — Danielle McGuire
Defining the Problem in Design Thinking — Sola’s Thoughts
What do you hate most about the website you love? What do you love most about the app you hate? User experience is all about meeting the user’s need, also known as solving their problem. In the UX Design Thinking process, the first step to problem-solving is understanding what the user is experiencing. Gaining insight into […]
Defining the Problem in Design Thinking — Sola’s Thoughts
Ford to go all electric in Europe by 2030 — TechCrunch
Ford today announced a new strategy for the European market that aims the automaker at primarily only selling electric vehicles by 2030. To do so, Ford intends to spend $1 billion to revamp a factory in Cologne, Germany, where it will produce EVs using a Volkswagen platform. The first production vehicle from the updated factory…
Ford to go all electric in Europe by 2030 — TechCrunch
The future of art spaces: What can art institutions do to improve in 2021? — 1854 Photography
Reading Time: 7 minutes This article was printed in the Then & Now issue of British Journal of Photography magazine, available for purchase through the BJP Shop or delivered direct to you with an 1854 Subscription. A year of job cuts and financial turmoil in the creative industries has unmasked fundamental issues of inequality, rooted within the…
The future of art spaces: What can art institutions do to improve in 2021? — 1854 Photography
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