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Designing for Meaningful Social Interactions

Boxes and Arrows

Then in a few years, we suddenly ended up with governments scoring people and masses manipulated into meaningless activities to generate more ad revenue. Now the time has come for us—designers, working on digital products—to step up our game and act like real gatekeepers. We have a huge responsibility here as designers.

Design 94
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Innovate and Persuade with a Well-Judged Nudge

Destination Innovation

Behavioural nudges are clever policy tweaks often used by governments to influence the choices that people make. The concept was popularised in the influential book, Nudge, by economists, Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler, published in 2008. Showing peer reviews e.g. for companies, products, hotels or restaurants.

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Designing for Interaction

Boxes and Arrows

Then in a few years, we suddenly ended up with governments scoring people and masses manipulated into meaningless activities to generate more ad revenue. Now the time has come for us—designers, working on digital products—to step up our game and act like real gatekeepers. We have a huge responsibility here as designers.

Design 55
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The Innovation Intensity needed in the Energy Transition

Paul Hobcraft

In the short term, the dramatic economic downturn has given rise to seeing air pollution levels drop during the “lockdown” months, but as was seen after the 2008 /9 financial crisis when the economy came “roaring back,” so did the carbon emissions. There is significant pressure on Governments as they attempt to stimulate their economies.

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Is Disruption the New Normal?

Moves the Needle

The world has endured 3 massive economic disruptions in the first 2 decades of the 21st century, including the dotcom bust and 9/11, the Great Recession of 2008, and the current pandemic-caused economic devastation. This is true in corporations, startups, education, government, and so on. But we are no longer in the 20th century.

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Gulsah Ceylan

Innovation 360 Group

By combining her innovative perspective and engineering knowledge in 2016, she has designed and developed an innovative smart textile product which was funded by government funds. 2003-2008 Uludag University – Textile Engineering (BSc). 2017– 2018 University of Warwick (WMG) – Engineering Business Management (MSc).

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IDEA 2008: An Interview with Elliott Malkin

Boxes and Arrows

But I was probably more interested in the traces of him that remained in the physical record, first at his gravestone, then on microfilm inside government archives. LD : What are the differences between designing for humans versus designing for, well, non-humans? Design has a functional purpose.