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Product Design: Design Sojourn

Simplicity is about Valuing PeopleOpen in a New Window

When we talk about simplicity we always put it in context in the usual expected ways. The usual favorite is associating Simplicity with making products easier to use. Simplicity as a design language is also a good one. Simplicity is also used synonymously with "less is more". All simplicity discussions almost always also end with designers lamenting how simplicity is hard or simplicity requires a complex processes to get there. Here is another way to look as Simplicity.

 

Can Printers be more Social? You can with the ARCOpen in a New Window

ARC Social Printer by Rene Lee 1 Click the Image for a bigger view! More images after the jump.
A friend of Design Sojourn, and soon to be graduate designer, Rene Lee has designed a cool concept printer that makes sense. His concept solves the problem of sifting through piles of printed documents to look for yours. Especially troublesome in a busy design office where everyone seems to be printing multiple pages of presentations or drawings for checking.

 

Design Sojourn’s Brand New BeginningOpen in a New Window

Kohi Sunrise Sorry for that cliffhanger of an ending in that last post, where I announced that I would be leaving Philips Design at the end of September. I like to be a little dramatic at times and I thought it would be a nice lead in to the story I’m going to tell you today. So what, you may ask, am I going to do next?

 

Design Needs More HeartOpen in a New Window

Image from the Little Thoughts Group. Today, I have a guest post from my friend and a fellow industrial designer Tan Lun Cheak. Lun Cheak believes that design in Singapore, (and I dare say Asia and the rest of the world), needs to break out of the mass manufacturing of standardized soulless products and move towards authenticity. We can do so by adding more heart in our design. I hope you enjoy his Singaporean view point on design, and please share if you find his insights resonating with the type of design in your part of the world. I suspect it might be.

 

Electrolux’s Asia Pacific Design Director Pernilla Johansson Shares her StoryOpen in a New Window

Friend and ex-colleague Pernilla Johansson, Design Director at Electrolux, shares her story about her career in design and how she got into it. You might remember Pernilla in my interview with her during the 2009 ICSID congress on the Future of Food Preparation. Here are some selected excerpts.