Design Hacking – Making it happen for your products

 

Design hacking is increasingly becoming an important part of the industry but what does it mean? Referencing anything from DIY design projects, to parasite products, to upcycling, etc, this movement is equal parts about sustainability and resourceful creativity as it is subversive. Design Hacking – Making it happen for your products details how hacking labs around the world (and London’s slow uptake on it) is the greater implication for firms NPD efforts and how to turn it into ROI for your firm.

Design as Art by Italian Master Bruno Munari

 

Bruno Munari’s iconic 1971 book, Poynor goes details Maestro Munari’s career. From his departure from fine art to design, to his playful self deprecating approach to design, Munari was an eccentric character with a subversive way of thinking which would be inspiring to the contemporary designer and firms wishing to embrace the ROI that only a maestro can create. A collection of essays, Design as Art is a must read.

Phases of Product Development – It’s all about quality.

 

A further in depth study into the life of a product, a qualitative guide for product life cycles is the determining factor to product success via the identification of six life phases of a product and comparing it with six qualitative phases of the design process. Phases of Product Development – A Qualitative Complement to the Product Life Cycle details how NPD and formative design can predict the economic life cycle of objects and the beautification of output due to the design process.