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The next frontier of innovation is not solely about technology. Rather, it is about user experience and design-why and how customers interact with, and develop attachments to, products and services. Method Design Lab is the first accelerator to leverage this new frontier by taking a design-centric, user experience driven approach to innovation. We are creating huge value for both consumers and investors by focussing on design and user experience as true market differentiators. MDL is a powerful partnership between Method, a world-class innovation and design consultancy based in San Francisco, and London-based Central Saint Martins, one of the world's foremost design Colleges.

Berlin-based company Formulor was founded by a team with over ten years of experience in laser-cutting and design. Formulor launched in 2010 and became our first manufacturing partner in the EU. With the release of the Personal Factory API, the Formulor team began working on a whole new site and improved user interface. The new Formulor site is now live and features a great built-in design tool that lets you create your design right on the page. Just pick your material (25 to choose from), select a size and thickness, then start creating your design with the various shape, text, and line tools

And the future of robotics education in Africa is ... Chupa Chups? When the African Robotics Network announced their $10 robot design challenge this summer, co-founder Ken Goldberg was careful not to share too many expectations, lest he influence contestants' designs. But he never imagined one of the winning entries would prominently feature a pair of Spanish lollipops. The challenge, hosted by AFRON co-founders Goldberg and Ayorkor Korsah, emphasized inexpensive designs to help bring robotics education to African classrooms. Goldberg announced AFRON's 10 winners in three categories today at Maker Faire, including the lollipop-laden Suckerbot and traditional (roaming) category first prize winner Kilobot, a Harvard-spawned three-legged, vibrating, swarming robot.

"One night in 2007, Kim Fraser, a sewing enthusiast and fabric lover, realized what was missing from her living room: curtains with big yellow polka dots. Instead of searching fabric stores for the perfect pattern, she thought, wouldn't it be cool if I designed my own? She wasn't a graphic designer, but she figured it couldn't be that hard."

La d.school propose plus d'une vingtaine de classes de pratique du design thinking, décliné sur des thèmes différents : communication, social, santé, changement des comportements, éducation,... Les élèves se voient alors confier des projets à réaliser par équipes composées d'étudiants de spécialités différentes, afin d'encourager la plus grande mixité disciplinaire possible. Pour réaliser ces projets, ils devront passer par les mêmes étapes que le designer, auxquelles correspondent des "modes de pensée" bien particuliers : - "Empathize" - Il s'agit d'abord de ressentir le problème que l'équipe est amenée à résoudre, en s'identifiant au mieux à l'utilisateur et en faisant donc preuve d'empathie. - "Define" - Une fois le problème appréhendé, il faut le définir pour identifier clairement quels sont les objectifs à atteindre et les besoins à résoudre. - "Ideate" - C'est à cette étape qu'il s'agit de donner libre cours à son imagination et sa créativité, en émettant un foisonnement d'idées, qu'elles semblent a priori raisonnables ou totalement folles. - "Prototype" - Pour pouvoir exprimer et appréhender ces idées, elles doivent être - même très succinctement - matérialisables. Il faut donc pouvoir confectionner un objet, quel qu'il soit, pour expliquer la solution envisagée au problème : c'est la théorie du "show, don't tell". - "Test" - La solution que l'on a imaginée et physiquement modélisée doit être confrontée aux conditions réelles d'utilisation, pour être améliorée par la suite.

This encyclopedia covers areas relevant to the design of interactive products and services like websites, household objects, smartphones, computer software, aircraft cockpits, you name it. The encyclopedia is free, includes HD videos, commentaries, and lots more. All chapters are written by elite professors or elite designers who have contributed greatly to the area they write about. We think you deserve free access to materials written by the world's foremost authorities - worth thousands of dollars - whether you are from New York or New Delhi. In fact, we wrote a mission statement about what we want to continue to do for you. And since we save you time and money, we know you will help us in return!

"The maker movement is gathering momentum. Slowly but surely people around the world are changing from passive consumer of the latest gizmo to active maker and modifier of existing designs. The promotion of an open source philosophy in the online era has given people access to myriad designs allowing them to make and modify almost anything. These days DIY not only applies to making simple home improvements, you can go online and learn how to build a robot if you feel up to the challenge! In America, MAKE magazine is the go-to publication for DIY and hack enthusiasts. Humans Invent spoke to MAKE's editor and overall hack guru, Mark Frauenfelder, to get an insight into how this movement is changing the nature of our consumerist culture."

The New Market Places - Peer to Peer Collaborative Consumption March 10, 2011 at 8:55am Collaborative consumption market places are everywhere: media, car rental, lodging, staffing, textbooks, apparel, custom graphic design and even finance. Netflix shares DVDs among a large subscriber base. ZipCar and GetAround make car sharing easy. Travelers rent a local's apartment for a few days through HomeAway and 9Flats. College students rent textbooks from Chegg. Moms exchange children's clothing on ThredUp. Graphic designers create beautiful paper products and fulfill orders through Minted. Short term borrowers find loans from a community of individual lenders on Zopa and LendingClub.

"Celebrated fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg tried on Glass for the first time a few months ago at a conference that she attended with Sergey Brin. She immediately loved it and they agreed to bring Glass to New York Fashion Week. Diane is a champion for innovation and effortless design, so it's unsurprising that Glass fit seamlessly into her production. In the week leading up to her Spring 2013 show in New York, and during the show itself, everyone from stylists and models to Diane herself used Glass to capture never-before-seen footage of the creative process."

"The idea of a mass-market virtual reality headset that totally immerses players in a game world died out pretty quickly in the '90s, a time when the technology wasn't quite up to the heady concept. Now, a hardware designer named Palmer Luckey thinks that technology has finally caught up with the dream, and seems to have done a good job convincing a lot of game designers that he's right. Luckey's head-mounted display, the Oculus Rift, launched on Kickstarter today after first being previewed at E3. The device quickly surpassed it's $300,000 funding goal (approaching $600,000 at the time of this writing), primarily by selling $300 development kits to thousands of backers. Those developers include id Software's John Carmack, (who'll be bringing Doom 3 BFG as the first game to support the headset), Epic Games' Cliff Bleszinski, Unity CEO Dave Helgason and Valve president and owner Gabe Newell, who offered up supportive quotes on Rift's potential for truly immersive virtual reality."

Last winter, Thomas Valenty bought a MakerBot - an inexpensive 3-D printer that lets you quickly create plastic objects. His brother had some Imperial Guards from the tabletop game Warhammer, so Valenty decided to design a couple of his own Warhammer-style figurines: a two-legged war mecha and a tank.

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Quand vous considérez le nombre de tablettes différentes, ordinateurs portables, navigateurs Web et systèmes d'exploitation qui accèdent de jour en jour à Internet, c'est un petit miracle que les concepteurs et les développeurs Web parviennent à rester raisonnables… Bien sûr, il y a les standards du Web et des organisations entières qui existent dans le seul but de s'assurer que l'Internet que vous voyez est généralement le même Internet que tout le monde voit. Mais, le grand nombre de dispositifs peut poser un petit problème lorsque vous tentez de créer un site ou un service qui fonctionne bien en masse…

Watch out! Internet connections worldwide may have been slower past weekend! Last weekend hundreds of hackers, programmers, designers and anti-corruption experts and activists in Bogotá, Budapest, Casablanca, Jakarta, Moscow and Vilnius gathered last weekend to develop new ICT tools that can help citizens monitor government and report corruption. Websites like ipaidabribe.com in India and use of twitter in events like the Arab Spring have shown that technology can be a powerful vehicle for people power. Hacks Against Corruption (HAC) is Transparency International's first attempt to bring together technology and anti-corruption specialists to use technology to come up with some of the challenges we face in fighting corruption: visualising the cost of corruption, monitoring complex, massive public budgets and allowing citizens to safely report corruption in their life.

"Arduino is probably the world's most popular open source physical computing platform. The little microcontrollers show up in everything from wild art projects to serious home automation efforts. It's great and all, but couldn't it be … smaller? Electrical engineer Ken Burns thought so, and got to work on the TinyDuino."

"Most data centers, by design, consume vast amounts of energy in an incongruously wasteful manner, interviews and documents show. Online companies typically run their facilities at maximum capacity around the clock, whatever the demand. As a result, data centers can waste 90 percent or more of the electricity they pull off the grid, The Times found."

"If you're interested in human development, the opportunity set has never been more interesting. Search in the browser marked the beginning of anywhere/anytime learning opportunities, but the official beginning of the new era was a decade ago with the Wikipedia launch. As noted in the Lessons from SkillShare blog, anywhere, anytime learning sites have been popping up at an increasing rate. You can learn about rate of change and differential calculus on Khan Academy. Academic Earth was an early source of college knowledge. Udemy let anyone teach anything. Saylor.org and P2PU.org made it all free. Anya Kamenetz outlined the expanded post-sec landscape in DIY U last year. This year, massively open online courses (MOOC) from Coursera, Udacity, and Edx are all the rage. The aggregate impact is a dramatic increase in access to great content and great teachers."

"The Hummingbird robotics kit is a spin-off product of Carnegie Mellon's CREATE lab. Hummingbird is designed to enable engineering and robotics activities for ages 10 and up that involve the making of robots, kinetic sculptures, and animatronics built out of a combination of kit parts and crafting materials. Combined with a cross-platform, very easy-to-use visual programming environment, Hummingbird provides a great way to introduce kids to robotics and engineering with construction materials that they are already familiar with. "

"The edge of technology is when it enables you to do something that you couldn't do before. It's one thing to put your imagination down onto a piece of paper, or into a computer program, but what if you could hold it in your hands? This is the vision of 3D printing. Digital designs can be turned into real objects using various kinds of plastic. This technology is not new, but bringing the machine home with you is - the people behind MakerBot started the company with a goal of making 3D printing more accessible."