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Design of Takeaway Cups: Disposable or Not?
As a response to people´s modern needs, all kinds of food and drink establishments offer take away, with the implied use of discardable containers such as cups and plastic spoons. Drink packaging can...
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Safari 4 and a New Tabs Redesign
Safari 4 Beta was released on February 24, 2009, with a huge amount of improvements (they really had a lot to fix). I have been following the web browser interfaces for some time but I would specially...
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3 key aspects to green design
It is tricky to design environmentally friendly products in an ever complex industrial world, but at the same time there is still plenty of room for improvement in today’s products. Here are some keys...
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Design case: Tata’s Nano
Tata Motors has launched the cheapest car in the world with the purpose of providing a car with the minimum standards and affordable for many Indians. Strategy: It is an extreme case of design reduced...
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Products that are Part of a Service Ecosystem
There is a clear trend in product design, especially in electronics design: in the last years we have been observing the raise of products that offer, additionally to the physical thing, a bunch of...
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DMY review: the expositions
This will be the first part of my review of the DMY intenational design festival 2009 in Berlin. The second part will take care of the conferences. I must say I was in general rather dissapointed with...
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DMY review: the conferences
This is the second part of my review of the DMY international design festival 2009 in Berlin. The first part took care of the expositions. All conferences were planned on a symposium day and the whole...
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Why to think about localization during the design process?
Now a days it seems that products have to be sold worldwide to be considered successful. Every product, a camera, a TV or a website, that aspires to become usable in different countries have to be...
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Telephone design for elderly people
Designing for the elderly could be considered as a hard task. Designers are usually not elderly and knowing how a product would be perceived could be considered a not so easy task. But the results of...
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The plastic bags battle
It is already 10 years since I first saw recycled and reusable bags in a supermarket. You buy them for a reasonable price (say, up to 0.50 €), you can use them for a long time and when they break you...
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