Design

Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 18 may 2013

'Design Psychology' is being applied to provide customized living spaces for individuals by matching their likenesses and lifestyles to a high level of detail with the architectural and interior design. Developers and designers develop models that specifically fit a certain demographic and their lifestyles and behaviors. Thus making them more attractive for specific buyers. Read on...

Chicago Tribune: Condo, apartment developers using design psychology
Author: Mary Ellen Podmolik

Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 17 may 2013

Packaging plays an important role in enhancing attractiveness of the product and can substantially facilitate its consumption. A global design firm in one of its projects that is intended to cultivate an open and active design culture and to encourage experimentation, focuses on 'packaging design' this year. The design ideation process considers two aspects- relationship (how the user interfaces with the product and its impressions) and tensions (identifies the disconnect between the user and the product). The design process included three steps- (1) selection of an ordinary object from daily life (2) selection of verb that may or may not correspond to the object (3) imbue the project with an emotion representing reason for design. The process lead to some very innovative packaging designs. Read on...

Fast Company: Ideo Imagines 18 Packaging Concepts For The Future
Author: Sammy Medina

Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 15 may 2013

According to recent data from United Nations, by 2050 about 70% of the world's population will reside in cities and to make these cities as healthy and beautiful places to live, importance should be given to development of open spaces and town squares in our urban planning strategies. Open spaces like gardens, parks etc provide gathering points for residents and humanizes and brings life to the city environment. One of the design firm is advocating just that by creating examples in currently existing larger cities that can be replicated in other cities in different parts of the world. Research also suggests that the price of property in cities is directly proportional to the proximity to the open spaces, meaning that people will pay a premium to live closer to the open spaces. Read on...

Fast Company: Designing A New Town Square For Our Crowded Urban Future
Author: David Gensler

Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 13 may 2013

This review of a recently published book on design describes the authors approach of considering design as 'concerned with the whole process of analysis, visualisation, planning and execution' that affects all human lives. The author takes examples about designs from history and tracks its evolution to the present time in a form of survey and observation. The effects of advancement in digital technology on design have modified life-cyle of products. Designers consciousness and concerns for the world are more clearly defined and they intend to contribute for the larger audience and for the better world. The speed of change in human lives have induced contrasting set of behaviors, likenesses and priorities in people. Read on...

the guardian: Hello World - Where Design Meets Life by Alice Rawsthorn - review
Author: Fiona MacCarthy

Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 11 may 2013

Companies and organizations to innovate and grow, need continuous flow of fresh ideas from their employees. Thus to inculcate the culture of creativity and innovation one of the things they can do is to design an ideas competition. There could be many ways it can be done. But the expert suggests that it is better to involve teams to submit ideas instead of individuals. Moreover companies should go a step further and seek a proposal or design for the suggested idea by the teams as it would have a better chance of implementation as compared to a raw idea. Evaluation criteria should focus on the creativity rather then on the 'best idea' concept when communicating the competition guidelines. Selecting teams at random with diversity is an important factor. The reward for the best idea should include a possibility of evolving the idea into an actual project. This kind of design would have a better chance of innovation for organizations as compared to the typical individual idea based competitions. Read on...

Innovation Excellence: Designing the Perfect Ideas Competition
Author: Jeffrey Baumgartner

Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 03 may 2013

'Componentized Building' for school that can be assembled in 90 days with affordable advanced facilities is promised by a design firm. One classroom prototype is already on display. The firm intends to streamline prefab to a higher level and simplify all aspects of the building - design, architecture, supply chain etc. The main concept is to reduce complexity and increase repetition. Fast replication of this model with customization would be a great advantage in the world where cost saving in projects is the single most important thing. Read on...

Wired: The 'Componentized' School of the Future, Built in 90 Days
Author: Nathan Hurst

Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 01 may 2013

The design is moving beyond mere products and specific systems and is evolving into the design of the whole ecosystem with diverse components all tied together in creative ways. In such a scenario the issues of intellectual property - patents, trademarks, copyright - are finding new meanings. The intellectual property is converging into the larger concept of design. Companies are leveraging this convergence of IP disciplines to deliver differentiating brands, inventions and content. Organizations are creating ecosystems with diverse set of products and services all tied together in a unique design form established over a period of time, protected by a integrated set of IP components and using it as a source of competitive advantage. There would be enormous challenges for the current IP system to protect these larger designs spanning diverse disciplines and a set of diverse innovators. Read on...

Daily Report: At Healthcare Experience Design conference, designers rethink 'broken processes'
Author: NA

Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 24 apr 2013

As internet and mobile technologies become an essential element of healthcare ecosystem its imperative to adopt best practices in user experience design. For this to be successful for both patients and providers, a collaborative approach between designers, developers, creative thinkers, users and providers is required. Patients should be involved as 'co-creators' in the early developmental stages of healthcare web design to utilize the full potential of 'open innovation'. Designers and clinicians should evolve a two way understanding and exchange process to enhance the final outcomes of the design. Experts say that to build sustainable healthcare design various stakeholders have to come together to build whole new models from ground up. Read on...

Healthcare IT News: At Healthcare Experience Design conference, designers rethink 'broken processes'
Author: Mike Miliard

Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 22 apr 2013

To create sustainable entrepreneurial companies it is imperative that converged ecosystem is developed with companies, universities and venture funds as the main stakeholders. Similar effort is in progress in Chicago where a design firm is coming forward to provide an accelerator platform to fledgling medical device entrepreneurial firms, at the most critical stage of their development- 'proof-of-concept' stage. The firm is seeking support from main universities of the city to provide candidates that have developed concepts with potential for commercialization and also early stage start-ups that are part of the university incubators. It will provide mentorship, financial resources and other services to build the commercially viable user friendly products. Experts say that start-up projects go through 'valley of death' - the financing gap between research and commercialization and if they can recieve funding and other support services at this 'proof-of-concept' stage they have a better chance of survival. Read on...

Chicago Tribune: New accelerator focuses on medical device startups
Author: Wailin Wong

Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 18 apr 2013

Over the years 'Garden Design' has evolved and according to an expert there are three things that have influenced its development most- ever changing architectural design, climate change and lifestyle changes. Garden designers have to consider various elements for designing gardens of the future. Over the last century the changes in gardening methods include- biodegradable materials for pots, electricity and biofuels for glasshouses, return to organic fertilizers, availability of more materials for construction, wider range of plant varieties due to advancement in breeding and selection methods, availability of better technologies in garden machinery and equipment and growing of food plants at home as a hobby. Low maintenance, need for neatness, disease free, easy to grow and simplicity would be important in gardens of the future. Read on...

Wales Online: Gardening past and present - How garden design has changed in the past 100 years
Author: Lorna Doran

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