We can liken tech startups to balloons filled with helium gas. If we don’t tether them to the ground, they will ascend to the sky and eventually dissipate. Tethering them to the ground encompasses numerous dimensions, from micro-level approaches to…
In his movie Reprise, Norwegian director Joachim Trier tells the story of two young men, Eric and Philip, who are budding authors. At one point in the movie, when Philip visits a publishing house to talk about publication of his…
Web1.0, Web2.0 and currently Web3.0 have proposed different levels of interaction with the users. Therefore, design has also had different positioning in these markets. In order to understand the position of design, the features of these technologies need to be…
A few years ago in Paris, we ran a series of in-depth user-research interviews with some elderly people as part of a project to design smart products for them. “They remind me of my age,” said one of the interviewees when we…
Image: Fridgehenge / Stonefridge was created by artist Adam Horowitz, in Santa Fe, Mexico in the 1990s. It was removed in 2007. Photo Credit: Brian K. Edwards In June 2021, after a long period of remote working, Apple called back…
While the courageous women and men on the frontlines are fighting to keep this nightmare pandemic from wiping us all out, it’s easy to feel irrelevant, ensconced at home, watching Netflix and worrying about having enough toilet paper. Imagine how…
Over the past two weeks, the criticism of Facebook has reached a boiling point, having simmered since the Cambridge Analytica data scandal was uncovered in 2018. Several global brands, including Unilever, Coca Cola, and Starbucks, have announced they are boycotting…