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Advice for product innovation, design, and development
Be Visionary: Four Steps to a Visionary Product Strategy
If your brand helps consumers solve a problem or achieve a goal as only your brand can, you have a product experience that will create a brand evangelist.
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From Smartphones to [Insert Your Device Here]: Unified IxD Principles, Part 2
The most glaring difference between a smartphone and other UI-centric products is that a smartphone as a device doesn’t consider specific context of use. Here are some scenarios where smartphone patterns might not work.
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From Smartphones to [Insert Your Device Here]: Unified IxD Principles, Part 1
Want your product to “look, feel, and act like an iPhone"? You can rely on some fundamental design principles that are universal to all mobile device experiences — many of which are informed by the ubiquity of smartphone and tablet devices.
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The Next New Normal in Technology and Interaction Design
We’ve identified technologies that will cause big and small shifts in the next few years and looked at how they are changing the practice of interaction design.
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The Processes That Guide Creativity
Moments of inspiration aren’t unusual at all; practically any product innovation you can name has benefited from several. And if they seem to happen out of the blue, it’s because that genius was primed.
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Don’t Let Order Bias Distort User Research
We’re passionate advocates for user research and the critical role it plays in product design. But not all research is equal.
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A Rational Guide To Brainstorming
Brainstorming can be very effective - if we don’t get lazy. At Delve, We subscribe to the notion of “more brain; less storm.”
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Why Is Empathy Essential for Design?
The short answer: Empathic design makes us better designers.
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All I Really Need to Know About UX Design I Learned from the Orchestra
The clarinet led me to an exciting music career. Along the way, the clarinet also taught me six user experience design lessons.
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The Case for Product Usability Testing in Simulated Environments
Why do we regularly transform our usability lab into a kitchen, hospital room, garage, bathroom, living room? It’s not because we’re filming a movie.
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On-Ramp to Electronic Product Design: 6 Key Considerations for RF Antenna Design
Now that everything from phones to automatic sprinkler systems have functionality that requires an internet connection, most of our clients’ products need some kind of communications rig. Most often, that means a radio frequency antenna.
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Designing Home Healthcare: Ten Best Practices and Real-World Examples
The world is better when healthcare meets people where they are. As the home evolves into a central hub of healthcare, how can we design for it in a way that delivers safe and effective healthcare for all?
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All I Really Need to Know About User Research I Learned from Anthropology
Whether I’m validating a medical device or working on the next big thing in VR technology, I always rely on five anthropological principles.
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Why Can’t an ICU Be More Like a Cockpit?
ICUs need a more integrated source of relevant information to help physicians make better decisions and fewer mistakes.
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How to Outsource the Engineering Team You Need
Outsourcing your engineering needs can be the answer—if you do it right.
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Why is Brand Consistency Important in Product Design?
People often think of brand consistency as it relates to advertising and communications. But it’s just as important for designers of products to consider brand consistency when creating a new design.
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9 Considerations for Planning User Research Prototypes
Prototyping for user research is a major consideration of product development and one that often confuses, because it’s not an exact science. There’s always a question of what to test and when, and there’s no one “right answer.”
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A Chronically Underutilized Role in New Medical Device Development
Utilizing this role to its fullest could minimize project risk and speed your product to market.
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Meet a Delvian: Corin Frost
Get to know Corin Frost, Senior Director of Communication Design at Delve.
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Diversity means better design
Diversity on a design team is important for many reasons.
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How Design Researchers Can Help Decolonize Design
Our role as human-centered researchers and designers is to advocate for a decolonized future of design in every decision-making task we take part in.
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Humans First! How To Spark Empathy in a Design Thinking Workshop
Design strategists often lead design-thinking workshops for clients using the research they’ve gathered in the field as jumping-off points for innovation.
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The Art of Moderating User Research
In a research session, a moderator’s goal is to acquire as much knowledge as possible from potential users of the product based on their experience (or even a lack of experience).
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Structured Ideation vs Brainstorming
Everyone has his own opinion regarding if and how brainstorming should be done. We use it frequently, but we’ve developed our own technique that is more structured than “stormed.”
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Why You Want Quant(itative User Research)
What’s the point of doing user research? Why not just design a product based on your own point of view and your anecdotal understanding of people’s needs?
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Reduce Project Risk: Incorporate Research Throughout New Product Development
Research enables you to make good decisions throughout new product development, speeding up product development and creating a product that resonates with users. Here’s what research-driven NPD looks like.
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What Successful Hardware Innovators Do Differently
Successful hardware innovators need confidence, foresight, and consideration to do something genuinely innovative.
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A Guide to Action-Oriented Design Thinking
At Delve, we don’t focus on design thinking for its own sake, but rather, on design thinking and doing. What does action-oriented design thinking look like?
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Making Data Work Harder for Healthcare
As part of athenahealth’s efforts to showcase the advantages of its network-enabled healthcare IT service over stand-alone software, altr was brought in to work with the athena team to create a simple performance assessment and optimization tool.
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Learning About Wearables by Looking to the Edges
There's no such thing as an average user.
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Vamsee Pamula, Founder & President, Baebies