Adam Richardson

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    Design Essay: Punctuating the Logic of Equilibrium

    2015-05-09T11:59:52

    What is it that makes some products highly successful even though they are different to anything the public has seen before? And is different always better? Let us look at two examples, BMW and Motorola, to understand the answers.

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    Design Essay: Designing For Mash-ups

    2015-05-09T11:40:28

    MASH-UP: 1. A musical genre which consists of the combination of the music from one song with the acapella from another. Typically, the music and vocals belong to completely different genres and strive for musical epiphanies that add up to more than the sum of their parts. 2. A website ...

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    Essay: From Twist to Touch

    2015-05-09T11:21:10

    The Apple iPhone has set off ripples throughout the world of product design because of its revolutionary touchscreen display. It's the first display that is "multi-touch" - it recognizes more than one finger touch at a time. This allows for some novel means of control, such as spreading two fingers ...

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    Design Essay: Beauties, Beasts and Blades

    2015-05-05T22:53:54

    Late last year Automobile Magazine ran an article on the Top 25 most beautiful cars ever made. Such lists are always controversial and this one garnered its fair share of letters in the following issue. But the list was striking for one particular reason: there were no cars on it ...