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Do You See a Duck or a Bunny? The Answer Is Quite Telling

And if you can flip between seeing both, that's great news.

Distractions can be Doorways with the most creative outcomes

Next time you are forcing yourself to completely avoid distractions, I challenge you to try this tactic. You will be surprised how much more you accomplish!

Jonathan "Dreamer" Garcia Finesses his Dolby Atmos Mixes With NUGEN Audio

Brand’s Halo Upmix and Halo Vision Plug-ins Spark Creativity and Enhance Workflow for Immersive Audio Projects<br>NEW YORK, JUNE 12, 2023 ― Looking to elevate his craft and passion, Tracking and Mixing Engineer Jonathan “Dreamer” Garcia recently decided to focus primarily on immersive audio, with a

Facebook is a harmful presence in our lives. It’s not too late to pull the plug on it

The company plans to tighten its grip on our everyday activities. We don’t have to just submit, says emerging technologies research fellow Jathan Sadowski

Five Design Research Pitfalls that Kill Good Ideas

On the surface, design research and ethnographic interviewing can seem pretty easy. We all know how to hold a conversation, so interviewing a user should be a breeze, right? But it is the structure and the planning of the research makes for great interview data and even better ideas down the line.

So your boss doesn’t believe in design research

Ideas for communicating the value of design research to an organization.

The Types of Design Research Every Designer Should Know — HeyDesigner

In UX design, research is a fundamental part in solving relevant problems and/or narrowing down to the “right” problem users face. A designer’s job is to understand their users, which means going beyond their initial assumptions to put themselves in another persons shoes in order to create products that respond to a human need. Good …

Who should conduct and observe design research?

Design research is one of the most important pieces of the puzzle, but figuring out who should be responsible for it is tricky. It basically all comes down to answering one question.

How to run a research session if you’re not a design researcher

How one UX writer took research into her own hands

Follow, don’t lead: Why journalists make great design researchers

Should You Use a Focus Group for Product Design Research?

Focus groups are a familiar form of qualitative research. But while they have a place in our research toolkit, Siri explains we rarely use them.

Is Healthcare Design Research Falling Short?

The jury for the Architectural and Interior Design Showcase is a neat little microcosm of Healthcare Design’s readership and conference attendees: a smart, passionate group of architects, interior designers, healthcare providers, construction pros, and educators.

Institute for Protein Design researchers show how AI can generate new protein shapes

The Institute for Protein Design helped usher in an era for scientists to predict the structure of a protein using artificial intelligence tools, an accomplishment that helped it win the… Read More

8 shortcuts for better, faster design research

I’ve been doing design and UX research for almost 24 years. In that time, I’ve learned a lot, and I hope I’ve gotten better at it over the…

Digital Growth Is Disrupting Branch Design, Research Finds

Research suggests the number of FI branches will continue to close at a relatively rapid pace for at least the near future.

Google researchers show AI can design microchips better and faster than humans

Artificial intelligence can design computer microchips that perform at least as well as those designed by human experts, devising such blueprints thousands of times faster. This new research from Google is already helping with the design of microchips for the company's next generation of AI computer systems.

Why designers should research and researchers should design

Find out why it's so important that designers get involved in user research, and researchers get involved in UX design.

This machine learning researcher wanted to design an adult diaper

The creator of the Willow got fixated on designing a better quality adult diaper.