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No longer from the furniture store, but with a download from a website, design goods take the form of a digital blueprint that the consumer takes to the local manufacturer for customizable on-demand production.   In collaboration with Waag Society, Droog is working with a network of designers, digital distributors, manufacturers and material suppliers to develop new business models and product designs for Downloadable design. Through a world wide platform for design distribution two pilots will be implemented to test the developed models and designs.   Possible benefits include lower product costs, less transport and less waste, new design concepts, more variation, possibility of co-creation, lower investment due to no warehousing, more responsive production chains, and involvement of the consumer in the design outcome. Not only for day-to-day goods, Downloadable design can play a role in global urgencies.   Currently we are in the design and development phase, look out for further announcements soon.

Build It With Me is a tool that connects design & development entrepreneurs. It exists to make creating apps easier by connecting you with like-minded designers & developers with the same goal: create cool & useful apps. Getting funding for your app idea is hard and often unrealistic. Most of the time you may just need to connect with a partner who has a skill set you lack to finish off your app. This is where Build It With Me is comes in, connecting you to those people. Skip the funding. Build It With Me will help you bootstrap your ideas into actual apps.

In recent months we have seen an explosion in demand for .TV domain names major professional sports leagues and sports network ESPN have started to acquire of develop .TV domains. For example look at: ESPN.TV MLB.TV NHL.TV These new online video sites are not to replace the existing dot com properties that have been developed. Instead they are online extensions to their dot-com Websites.

Privacy is not about control over data nor is it a property of data.  It's about a collective understanding of a social situation's boundaries and knowing how to operate within them.  In other words, it’s about having control over a situation. It's about understanding the audience and knowing how far information will flow.  It’s about trusting the people, the situating, and the context.  People seek privacy so that they can make themselves vulnerable in order to gain something: personal support, knowledge, friendship, etc.

1) Security Through Obscurity Is a Reasonable Strategy 2) Not All Publicly Accessible Data is Meant to be Publicized 3) People Who Share PII Aren’t Rejecting Privacy 4) Aggregating and Distributing Data Out of Context is a Privacy Violation 5) Privacy is Not Access Control

Social norms can and are changing, but that doesn't mean that privacy has been thrown out the door. People care deeply about privacy, care deeply about maintaining context.  But they also care about publicity, or the right to walk out in public and be seen. 

1) Including a pain point in our headline

2) Changing our signup button from Green to Red

3) Changing our button text from “Signup for Free” to “Get Started Now”

Inventables is the innovator’s hardware store. We sell materials that designers, artists, and inventors use to develop new products and push the boundaries of what's possible.