"Sorry, we are out of stock!" is an unpleasantly common sentence customers of Indian retailers hear every day. This is because due to a lack of appropriate systems, retailers are having problems with maintaining their stock and accurately anticipating the necessary quantities of each product. With their business network Ganges, SAP intend to tackle this… Continue reading Talking Design Thinking with Abhijit De
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How to Design Think
Use a notebook Sketch every idea you have Communicate visually Observe your target audience Build prototypes Talk to people without domain knowledge Discuss with people you don't know Never neglect crazy ideas Think about technology later Don't stick to a particular order Test every hypothesis Never just assume things Practice empathy Be satisfied with 'good enough'… Continue reading How to Design Think
On Design Thinking
According to Patnaik (2009), Design Thinking is "any process that applies the methods of industrial designers to problems beyond how a product should look." The term was already used as early as 1987 by Rowe in his eponymous book in an architectural context and has lately become popular through research done at Stanford University and the Hasso Plattner… Continue reading On Design Thinking
How to Not Have a Bad Day
Some time ago, when I was still more active on Google+, I used to share a funny little animated GIF from time to time. Not just any semi-funny GIF I came across, but only those that made me laugh really hard and at which I could look a thousand times without becoming bored of them.… Continue reading How to Not Have a Bad Day
I gave myself a new logo as a Christmas present
The year is almost over and my blog 2008 is almost 2 years old now. A lot has changed since I started it: I wrote up my PhD thesis (that I can hopefully defend soon), started a new job at HoloBuilder.com—one of Germany's most innovative Augmented and Virtual Reality startups—and moved from Leipzig to Aachen. So… Continue reading I gave myself a new logo as a Christmas present
2008 – Tales of Design & User Experience 