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A glimpse of how we see the world: Interesting Approaches - Psychology of Design - Real Life Examples - Improve the Designer to Client Relationship - Get Inspired

Scott Stevens

Dec 14, 20242 min read

Giving Teams Clear Direction

Unpack and define what your product attributes mean with your team. Saying you want a simple and easy to use product is a high-level...

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Scott Stevens

Jul 27, 20241 min read

Turning User Insights into Clear, Actionable Design Direction

As an industrial design consultant and leader in the space, I've found that transforming insights into actionable design directions is...

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Scott Stevens

Jul 27, 20241 min read

Confidence in Value Creation

Would you like to be confident that the product your designing is creating value for your users? Here's 3 steps to give you confidence...

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Scott Stevens

Mar 11, 20244 min read

What is Industrial Design?

We as industrial designers are creators of fiction. Our purpose is to get enough people to believe in our story that it becomes...

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Scott Stevens

Feb 20, 20241 min read

Finding Analogous Solutions

Finding analogous solutions for your product challenges are little shortcuts to help you find meaningful solutions. I was at the store...

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Abandon the Physical Object, Embrace the Output.

Scott Stevens

Feb 5, 20242 min read

Abandon the Physical Object, Embrace the Output.

How can the design of a consumable change a category? By Abandoning the physical object and embracing the output. The consumable is where...

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Scott Stevens

Oct 24, 20232 min read

Toothbrushes & Toilets: Success can be a Failure

Toothbrushes & Toilets. Be careful with the product associations you create. I bought a product recently that successfully created an...

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Scott Stevens

Oct 23, 20232 min read

Don't get blindsided: Identify Analogous Competition and Strengthen your Business.

4 steps to identify analogous competition and strengthen your business. This process will allow you to proactively discover ways to...

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Scott Stevens

Oct 6, 20232 min read

Stop Hindering Your Ideation Process

Here are 3 mindsets that will poison your team's creativity during ideation phases: 1) Stop focusing on function: I'm going to make the...

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Don't Innovate, It Can Kill Your Business

Scott Stevens

Oct 4, 20232 min read

Don't Innovate, It Can Kill Your Business

Don't innovate, it can kill your business. How can that be? Let's use the touchscreen phone as an example: Innovation was developing the...

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Change the Value of Your Product Offering

Scott Stevens

Sep 27, 20231 min read

Change the Value of Your Product Offering

Here are 5 activities that can redefine your product line and the experience that the user is purchasing. This will reset the value...

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Concerned About Working with an Industrial Designer or Studio?

Scott Stevens

Sep 17, 20232 min read

Concerned About Working with an Industrial Designer or Studio?

What if I don't like the design? What if they don't give me what I'm looking for? These are thoughts almost every potential client has...

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Scott Stevens

Sep 6, 20232 min read

4 Huge benefits to creating a Visual Brand Language

4 huge benefits to creating a visual brand language (VBL) for your products. This post is not how to create VBLs. Let me give you a...

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Improve Your Relationship with Your Designer.

Scott Stevens

Aug 28, 20232 min read

Improve Your Relationship with Your Designer.

Learn why some industrial designers seem difficult to interact with, what could be causing it, and how to improve it.

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Easy Ways to Improve Your Communication with Industrial Designers

Scott Stevens

Aug 24, 20232 min read

Easy Ways to Improve Your Communication with Industrial Designers

Have you had the experience of describing a product or solution to a designer and receiving a design that does not resemble what you...

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Disagreement Within Your Product Team? Fantastic!

Scott Stevens

May 26, 20234 min read

Disagreement Within Your Product Team? Fantastic!

Yes, you read that right. Disagreement within your product development team is proof that you have a great combination of personalities...

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Experts Can't Help You, So Become the Expert.

Scott Stevens

May 26, 20235 min read

Experts Can't Help You, So Become the Expert.

I would like you to imagine your company has been around for 25 years. It's captured a large chunk of the market and your consumers are...

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What Makes Your Product Belong is Why It's Invisible

Scott Stevens

May 26, 20233 min read

What Makes Your Product Belong is Why It's Invisible

What business are you in? You know everything about your competition. Are your products differentiated from their offering? Is it enough?...

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Scott Stevens

May 3, 20233 min read

Reframe Your Problems

We all use heuristics to narrow the scope of information to make decisions. Sometimes we are not aware of the assumptions our brain is...

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Superman Sucks and So Does Your Fully Featured Product.

Scott Stevens

Apr 27, 20234 min read

Superman Sucks and So Does Your Fully Featured Product.

Introducing a flaw in his power allowed for better storytelling and an engaging experience. This is one of the reasons Marvel was a...

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