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Advice for product innovation, design, and development
2024 10 02 Three Ways Keep It Simple HERO
Three Ways to Keep It Simple When You Have the Urge to Add One More Feature
This tendency to want to innovate around every single aspect of a product stems from passion for the product and its mission. But while passion is indispensable, it needs to be tempered with rational thinking.
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Making a Complex Device (Feel) Simple
We’ve noticed a common thread running through all our work—research, strategy, mechanical and electrical engineering, industrial and interaction design—we make the complex simple.
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#sideproject: SmartiPi Raspberry Pi B+ and Camera Case
I’ve always wanted to make a product of my own — something small I could manage — and this seemed like a perfect opportunity. I decided to design a Raspberry Pi case that’s functional, affordable, quirky, and fun.
2024 09 27 kickstarted what i learned HERO
I Got Kickstarted, and Here’s What I Learned
Having done all the research and scaled the considerable Kickstarter learning curve, I wanted to compile what I found to be the most useful resources.
2024 09 17 3 Things Kickstart Hardware Setup HERO
Three Things to Do Before Kickstarting Your Hardware Startup
The biggest pitfall for aspiring hardware entrepreneurs isn’t the funding part; it’s the hardware part and clearing the production hurdles.
2024 09 04 Consumer Wellness App that Clicks HERO
How to Design a Consumer Wellness App That Clicks
53% of digital health apps are uninstalled within 30 days of download. How can you design a consumer wellness app that engages and retains users?
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It Takes a Village to Raise a Hardware Product
Entrepreneurs going into hardware face a hefty learning curve, and missteps can end up costing them later in development.
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What Can You Learn About Product Development from HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’?
Silicon Valley really speaks to us as interaction designers, user researchers, a mechanical engineers, and software engineers. There have been many times we wanted to jump into the screen and right the ship.
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The Happy Marriage of Industrial Design and User Interface Design
More and more, people are conditioned to interact with their objects. Products developed according to a siloed industrial design process have little chance of fulfilling these new expectations.
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Zen and the Art of User Onboarding
As the products we use every day become increasingly complex, the art of user onboarding has taken on greater significance. But there’s more to consider than simply front-loading your product with all the information your users might need to know.
2024 08 27 Automotive Cockpit HMI HERO
On Your Mark, Get Set, Go: Takeaways from Automotive Cockpit HMI
How do you create an in-car interface that is engaging, exciting, easy to use, and doesn’t distract the driver?
2024 05 22 tecnologies age aware design
Four Promising Technologies for Age-Aware Design: Let’s Think Actively About Aging
Aging consumers are an ideal market, with plenty of free time and unprecedented disposable income. We should get serious about age-aware design and tech for older adults.
2024 08 21 Headless Provisioning HERO
What Is ‘Headless Provisioning,’ and How Can We Make It Easier for Users?
Headless provisioning is part of the unboxing experience — specifically, it’s the part when a user connects the device to the Internet for the first time. Unfortunately this process is often confusing for users.
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How to Use FigJam to Collaborate on Sketches
We use FigJam to collaborate and share our sketches and early thinking internally and with our clients. Here’s how we do it.
2024 08 13 Branding and Joy HERO
Branding and Joy (A Love Story)
Once upon a time, branding was good for companies but not so good for consumers. That’s no longer the story.
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Experience, the Real Thing
The real opportunity is to allow people to make their own meaning for the brand through their own unique experiences with it.
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You May Be Looking at Subject Matter Expertise the Wrong Way
Should you hire industry outsiders to design your new product? Maybe.
2024 08 01 UX Life or Death HERO
UX, The Difference Between Life And Death?
In certain industries, a poor user experience isn’t just suboptimal—it's dangerous.
2024 07 24 Be Visionary HERO
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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When Smartphone Patterns Don’t Apply: Designing User Interfaces for Specialized Contexts
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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Design Lessons from Smartphones: Universal Interaction Design Principles for All Devices
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.
2024 07 12 next new normal HERO
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.
2024 07 10 Processes that Guide Creativity HERO
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.
2024 07 02 Rational Guide to Brainstorming HERO
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.”
2024 06 26 empathy essential HERO
Why Is Empathy Essential for Design?
The short answer: Empathic design makes us better designers.
2024 06 25 UX Design Orchestra HERO
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.
2024 06 19 Usability Lab HERO
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.
2024 06 18 RF Antenna Design HERO
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.
2024 06 10 Designing for Home Healthcare HERO 3
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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Vamsee Pamula, Founder & President, Baebies