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Secret Origin
of the iPhone

This month marks 10 years since Apple launched the first iPhone, a device that would fundamentally transform how we interact with technology, culture, and each other. Ahead of that anniversary, Motherboard editor Brian Merchant embarked on an investigation to uncover the iPhone’s untold origin. The One Device: The secret history of the iPhone, out on June 20th, traces that journey from Kenyan mines to Chinese factories all the way to One Infinite Loop. The following excerpt has been lightly condensed and edited by The Verge.
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Anatomy of a Mindstyle Brand

This is the case of a business growing across a number of categories, but a brand belonging to none. A business gravitating around physical products, but a brand addressing cognitive needs.
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Disrupt Aging

Parsons School of Design students have met an AARP challenge to create wearable solutions for health issues. See what they've designed.
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Designing Connections

"Such an inspiring interview, to listen to one of the best female #designer / design #leader," posts Airgora after its interview with IDSA Board Member Qin Li. Read more.
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Anti-Smart Home

“Our devices are inserting themselves into our moments all of the time. They’re kind of like this person in the room with us all the time, and that person is the most socially awkward friend you’ve ever had and can’t pick up on the social cues.”
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R-E-S-P-E-C-T

Andrew Nusca of Fortune magazine reports how IDSA member Mauro Porcini of Pepsico and Paola Antonelli of MOMA find design and business can impact the world.
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New Role

Apple's chief design officer, who was honored with IDSA's Personal Recognition Award in 2013, has another gig.
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Brand Buzz

Talk about branding! ALL of Sweden is listed on Airbnb!
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Mr. Fix-It

The New York Times credits Jim Hackett with turning office furniture maker Steelcase into "one of America’s most admired companies." Now, can he drive Ford Motor Company into the future as its new CEO?
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A Better World

Adaptive sports projects by the University of Oregon's first-of-its-kind Sports Product Design master's program are among Dezeen's Top 10 picks at Wanted Design.
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Most Hated Badly-Designed Products

Zero Waste Europe’s People’s Design Lab project: nominate badly designed products and vote for their “most hated” products to be improved or phased out.
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Just Google It

Google doesn’t want to just answer questions anymore. It wants to guess the question before you ask it.
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CEOs and
Where They
Studied

Two on this list of famous CEOs studied product design. (And note how many are Harvard dropouts.)
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Discovering The Missing 'X' In Product Design

When it comes to designing products, most companies make a point of listening to their customers. But what if they’re asking the wrong questions?
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Read These Books

Want to understand the Future of design? Upgrade your summer beach reading with these tomes about the future of cities, AI, big data and more.
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Obsessed with Design

Founders of today's most successful companies reveal why design inspires them—along with their most coveted object.
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Gender-empowering?

“Just like women, we wanted to show that our iconic bottle can come in all shapes and sizes, too,” Dove said. Just hours after the ad campaign aired so did the backlash.
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Living Languages

Yahoo VP of Product Design Albert Song on living design languages: "At the end of the day, utility is as much part of the designer’s job as aesthetics."
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The Next Big Name

Later this year, Apple launches the next iPhone, 10 years after the first one was unveiled. What will it be named? Forbes finds the frontrunners.
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Outside the Box

New software by Brunel University London aims to prevent lawsuits by alerting designers at an early stage about patent infringement, as well as boost creativity by encouraging them to think outside the box.
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Childhood Obssession

"In hindsight I had some odd behaviors," Airbnb founder and RISD industrial design alum Brian Chesky tells Entrepreneur. "All the things I grew up with I tried to redesign."
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Appealing Design

Product design, and a quirky sense of humor, could make signs more noticeable and therefore save lives, reports Yanko Design. See how two designers went bananas.
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Grounded

At the Pan Am Experience, $300 will take you on a trip back in time with a six-course meal and caviar. Buckle up.
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"Impact the World"

MWDDC's theme of Radical Concepts "fits into MIAD's philosophy and mission to empower different thinking to impact the world." Read more in MIAD News.
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Space Fabric

Look what NASA has come up with now. From serving as insulation to an antenna and more, a new space fabric is the result of what some call "4D" printing.
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20 Tech Visionaries
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New Apple Hire

Apple quietly made one of its coolest hires ever. The company recently brought on Steven Keating, the MIT doctoral student who made a 3D printout of his own brain after he was diagnosed with a tumor.
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Design Sprints

The Design Sprint, developed at GV by design partner Jake Knapp, is a five day process of identifying key business problems to solve, generating solutions and testing a prototype with users.
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Design for Happiness

Can products and services influence, facilitate, or foster customer happiness? And if so, can we then design for happiness?
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Washing Machine or Cooking Appliance?

Iftach Gazit from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Israel understands your desire to multitask and has created Sous La Vie—a way to sous vide food in your washer.
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Story Musgrave, Former Astronaut, Now at ArtCenter

Among the many topics he teaches at ArtCenter is a concept he calls “multiple domain synergy” which is about moving ideas from one company or industry to another.
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Will
wearable
technology
destroy
advances
in recycling?
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Seed Bombs

The NJIT’s Idea Factory and Material Dynamics Lab is combining seed bombs—balls of organic matter that protect and help seeds packed within them grow—with hydrogel granulates, sucking in moisture and swelling to up to 400 times their own weight in water.
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"Amazing Event"

The University of Oregon welcomes IDSA's West District Design Conference 2017. “We are so excited to host... for the design community.” Register onsite April 23.
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Open and Shut

The Atlantic's Sarah Zhang turns to IDSA Member Bryce Rutter, founder and CEO of IDSA Ambassador Metaphase, for an expert opinion on solving a NOT so open-and-shut case.
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Unexpected Insights

RISD News takes a closer look at IDSA's District Design Conference 2017.
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Just Add Heat

Objects that can change shape within seconds after being exposed to heat demonstrate a novel 4D-printing technique that could one day be used to create medical devices that unfurl on their own in the body during surgical procedures.
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Difficult to
Automate

When it comes to automation, the marketplace will decide, and the market is not always logical.
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Subaru Promises

Subaru claims "We've made great cars, but not necessarily the most beautiful, now they're really going to be emotionally appealing, to a level they haven't been before."
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Fake Furniture

You avoid fake designer handbags and watches, but what about furniture?
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IP on 3D

"This case is an important step forward for 3D trademarks," reports Lexology. See why.
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Christmas in April

Retailers and toy companies are working together this year to create items for Easter baskets beyond bunnies. And toy companies are getting shrewder in product design and packaging. See how.
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Don't Sign That Offer...Yet

We often approach signing offer letters with as much caution as we do launching a new app: completely skimming past the terms and conditions and clicking "accept" before knowing what we're really getting into.
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Recognize a Branding Problem

Whenever a brand is in some form of transition, it’s critical that management take a serious look at whether their brand promise needs to be reinforced, refined, revised or replaced altogether.
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A Brief History of Men Who
Build Female Robots

As we will probably be interacting with a new generation of machines in the future, maybe “we should not cage them in the same unimaginative and restrictive gender expectations that we humans are still struggling to free ourselves from today,” as suggests Laura Dattaro.
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Prevent Personas from Devolving Into Stereotypes

A persona is best thought of as a “representative” for some types of users, not in terms of who those users truly are, but in terms of what they need or value in a product.
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Designers: Robots Are Coming for Your Jobs

Designers are in for a period of radical change and must learn to adapt. Those who don’t might as well look for a new line of work.
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Get Paid to Build Lego Models

It's an absolute scandal that our bosses don't allow us to spend every waking hour playing with Lego, but that's the sad reality the majority of us face.
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Architects as Product Designers

Many of the same principles explored and addressed through architecture can be applied to design of products.
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Going Circular

"We need to reverse course and radically shift the way stuff gets made and used," says IDSA Member Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO. See how.
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