EMERGING FACTORS

Sources: User Friendly: How the hidden rules of design are changing the way we live, work, and play. --- Cliff Kuang with Robert Fabricant

...“We wanted to make sure there was an emotion to the sounds, but it wasn’t an emotion you knew,” Lynn said. “They’re symbolic.”

Trash Artist

"Nature has evolved a multitude of microorganisms that change shape as their environmental conditions change. This basic principle inspired our microrobot design. The key challenge for us was to develop the physics that describe the types of changes we were interested in, and then to integrate this with new fabrication technologies.”

http://christopheguberan.ch/

We do crazy shit that never goes anywhere. It’s one experiment followed by another – and that’s great. It does everything design should do: It alters your brain and your heart, even if it doesn’t lead to a mass-produced product. If everybody agrees with what you’re doing, you’re not innovating.

Most industrial design and interface design results from the assumption that form follows function; it makes sense that an object is shaped by the way it’s going to be used. Territory operates in exactly the opposite direction. The team comes up with graphics it likes first, then considers how data might be mapped to those visuals. “That way we can disrupt a little bit more,” says Romances. “If you start with restrictions, you’ll never get to the two to three new avenues you can if you start with a different thought process. So let’s start with what we really like, then figure it out.”