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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.

Myth 1: Students Are Technology Wizards

In particular, students don't like to learn new user interface styles. They prefer websites that employ well-known interaction patterns.

Students often judge sites on how they look. But they usually prefer sites that look clean and simple rather than flashy and busy.

I have collected 48 free social media monitoring tools. In the Group A are the services that I use regularly or seem interesting to check out immediately. The Group B is an alphabetical list of tools for you to play with. Here we go: