When business goals clash with user needs
In Agile software development, features and functionality planning is usually documented in the form of user stories. Ideally, a user story represents a user goal and an outcome, and is told from user’s point of view. This helps Agile teams to keep users at the center of the development process.
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A case study of worldbuilding using design fiction films
In my master’s thesis I submitted back in 2014, I explored the emerging creative practice called design fiction for the first time and questioned how design fiction artifacts can be used to spark and facilitate discussions about the future. With that purpose, I set up a roundtable and invited four…
How user stories can help
When committed to creating detailed prototypes in Figma, things can easily get messy, especially if you have all your frames within the same file. While I was designing a complex web app for managing annual salary reviews, I avoided this problem thanks to user stories.
Is platform exclusives the next big thing?
As the smartphone platforms have gotten closer in terms of customer experience and hardware capability over the last few years, we have arrived at where gaming consoles had arrived many years ago: platform exclusives.
A brand new Instagram app
It seems Apple has a new trick up its sleeve. Joining forces with Facebook, the tech…
Do you remember?
You launched your product and people seemed to have adopted it. The positive feedback have started to pour in, along with new feature requests here and there. Then the number of requests started to increase, because your users simply want to do more with your product and they can’t be…
Because there’s no such thing as UX design.
It did not occur to me until I read James Mingardi-Elliott’s article “There is no such thing as UX Design”. He brilliantly explained his reasoning behind why the term “UX design” doesn’t make sense and it resonated with me.
UX Design as the name for Product Design made total sense…
How I designed a maglev train/Hyperloop hybrid when I was 12 years old
When I was a little kid, I used to be quite a scientist. I worked on ideas ranging from firefighting drones, smart car user interfaces to sci-fi dreams of teleportation and hoverboard. …
The global pandemic might change how we interact with daily objects.
As every person is a potential virus carrier and each publicly used object is potentially contaminated, how we perceive and interact with these objects have been dramatically changed. Thus, the core concepts of product design might be subject to change as well.
Döngüsel ekonomiye geçişte tasarım nasıl bir rol üstleniyor?
İnsanlar doğrusal sistemler kurarken, doğa döngüsel sistemler kurar. İşte bu sebeple, doğada ‘atık’ diye bir şey yoktur. Döngüsel ekonominin radikal vaadi işte bu: Geleneksel ‘al-üret-at’ ekonomisinden kapalı bir döngüye sahip, malzeme ve verinin sürekli olarak yeniden görevlendirildiği bir ekonomiye doğru geçiş.
Kurumsal gelecek vizyonları gerçekten geleceği tahmin etmek için mi üretiliyor?
1987 yılında EDUCOM fuarında, dönemin Apple CEO’su John Sculley, teknoloji eğitimi toplumuna yönelik yaptığı konuşmasında Knowledge Navigator adlı bir video sundu. Konsepti Hugh Dubberly ve Apple Creative Services’den Doris Mitsch tarafından geliştirilen video, 60.000 dolar bütçeyle çekildi.
TIME dergisi için yapılan bir röportajda, o dönem Apple’da bilgisayar uzmanı olarak görev…
