The Decision-Making Process Designers Should Use Daily
“How do I make a proper decision?” It seems to be an easy question to answer, especially by a professional, skillful designer. However, the decision-making process can turn to be
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Author: Dr Rafiq Elmansy
What Type of Design Manager Are You?
If we have a look back to our design career, we can easily identify the bad, good, and great managers who not only achieve success in business but were able
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The Graphic Design Major in the American University in Cairo: First Generation of Emerging Talent Graduates
New, young talent shined in the hall of the Sharjah gallery in the American University in Cairo (AUC) this week as new graduates gathered to present their final graduation projects
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CATWOE: Building a Problem-Solving Checklist
Problem solving is the main target of design thinking methods, and the previously discussed design thinking methods that are used in solving problems tend to work through a number of
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If You Believe that Design Thinking is a Waste of Time, You’re Doing It Wrong
Design thinking tools and methods tend to explore innovative ideas and creative solutions for organization problems by shifting the way we think from ordinary methods to new techniques that explore
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Why Design Education in the Middle East Doesn’t Meet the Market Needs
One of the questions commonly asked by young, talented designers and students who dream of design as their future career is, “How do I learn design?” The questions are also
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Applying Design Thinking in Education to Fight Extremism
Last week, we woke up to the terrible attacks in Paris, and the world is still mourning the more than 150 killed in the incident. A couple of days before,
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Why Design Thinking Can Contribute to a Growing Business
Design thinking is defined by Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO, as “a discipline that uses the designer’s sensibility and methods to match people’s needs with what is technologically feasible and
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Exploring Human-Centered Innovation: NEST CASE STUDY
As RIBA’s policy officer, Emillia Plotka stated, “Access to energy consumption data at a larger scale could help identify energy-use hotspots and point to areas that could benefit from community energy
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Five Product Designs Against Crime
Crime has a significant negative impact of economy and society, both from physical and physiological approaches. Prison population has increased in the UK from 44,000 to 83,000 between 1993 and
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Common Types of Mind Maps and How to Use Them
Mind maps are widely used by both designers and non-designers as a method for brainstorming in the early stages of projects in order to explore ideas or solve project problems.
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8 Tips to Finance Your Design Business
One of the major challenges facing designers and creative people seeking to start their own business—or moving their creative idea from their art studio labs to the market as a
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Tracing the Open Design Practice
The term “open” is added to different fields such as design, innovation, and software in order to reflect co-creation principles with users contributing to the final design, either by assembling
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How Designers Can Use Rolestorming to Understand Consumers
Brainstorming techniques are used to achieve different goals, including finding creative ideas, solving problems, and understanding the target consumer during the ideation phase of the design process. However, brainstorming team
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Using Value Stream Maps to Improve User Experience
Designing in its holistic approach is a method for solving problems through creativity and innovation by designing a better product or service experience. In-depth research and exploration for the end
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Design Drivers in the Middle East
Design has been agreed as a driver for success among design scholars and practitioners. However, outside the creative and innovation community, an uncertain vision about design can be identified –
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Five Reasons Behind a Failed UX Design Process
Many products in the market can be beautiful or full of functions and features, but are hard to use. These products reveal the importance of the user experience process, which
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Building a Solid User-Centered Design Process
Many companies claim they are designing with the end user in mind; yet too many products fail to achieve this goal. This occurs because of a variety of factors, like
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80/20 Rule: From Economics to Design
Observing consumer behavior can teach us a lot of information about the features implied within the design and how users will interact with those features. An interesting observation indicated by
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How New Google Logo Will Change Old Design Rules
Two days ago, Google surprised the world with its new logo design after 17 years of using the same logo for their branding. The previous logo featured minor alterations
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