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NEWS ABOUT: product design

product design stories: 4 news summaries

 Time to Redefine 
 'Disabled' Design 

Accessible design leads to better products for everyone

Nov 2, 08 10:14 AM CST
(Newser) - The world is long overdue for a major change in how devices for the disabled are both perceived and designed, an industry leader says. In fact, it's time to stop designing disabled-access items altogether, Northwestern professor and author Don Norman tells CNN. Why not just make it so showers, baths,... More »

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disabled • product design • disabled access

Phone Makers Chase Fickle Customers

Execs obsess over consumer wants, 'subliminal' needs

Feb 29, 08 11:15 AM CST
(Newser) - With the cellphone industry increasingly hit-driven, phone designers are plumbing the consumer psyche through cultural experts and focus groups, reports the New York Times. "Our job is to be behaviorists and psychologists," says an exec. Competition has heated up as consumers buy—and discard—phones at an... More »

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cell phones • iPhone • Apple • design • Nokia • product design • cell phone industry • LG Electronics • consumer psychology

How 'Bout
Them Rotten Apples?

Before era of iPod
and iPhone, company had some stinkers

Jan 24, 08 8:59 PM CST
(Newser) - Apple has been around for almost a quarter of a century, but not all of its products were as ingenious as the iPod. Wired highlights the company's biggest flops.
  1. The MessagePad (AKA The Newton): Fashioned to revolutionize personal computing, this PDA was too far ahead of its time for
... More »

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Apple • list • consumer goods • Macintosh • product design • inventions

Product Design Gets Wilder, Faster

Today it's round Kleenex boxes; tomorrow, talking ones

Aug 10, 07 2:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Commercial product design is being overhauled faster and faster as brands compete in a fragmented market. The Internet and cable TV have diluted the effectiveness of advertising campaigns, and companies are spending more money on engaging design to win customers: Pepsi, for one, is rolling out a new can every... More »

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media • advertising • shopping • consumer • design • product design • Internet advertising

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