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Maximillian Philip Burton
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Apr 8, 2021

Designing Meaning

As technology becomes all-pervasive, the need for good design is growing. And by good design, I am talking about more than improving usability to remove friction from an interaction. In the same way that quality and function were once table stakes for products, so too will be aesthetics and usability…

Product Design

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Designing Meaning
Designing Meaning
Product Design

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Jan 25, 2021

A New Era For Industrial Design

You could say design has finally arrived. It’s now taken seri­ously by big business, leading companies have included designers at their executive levels, and design has become the driving force for innovation behind some of the leading companies in existence today. For those of us in the design field, there…

Industrial Design

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A New Era For Industrial Design
A New Era For Industrial Design
Industrial Design

6 min read


Jan 15, 2021

When Pixels Dominate Design, Your Hardware is the Brand

When Pixels Dominate Design, Your Hardware is the Brand First Published in FastCo. March 26 2013 A major takeaway of the Samsung/Apple patent dispute last year: Physical objects have retained their power in the digital age. …

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When Pixels Dominate Design, Your Hardware is the Brand
When Pixels Dominate Design, Your Hardware is the Brand

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Jun 9, 2020

A Good Chair

Getting Seated and Feeling Settled When Work-at-Home is the Only Option I think everyone working from home has a chair story during these strange times. A story of finding that the seating options at hand are now having to do quadruple duty — used for dining, working, lounging and even…

Industrial Design

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A Good Chair
A Good Chair
Industrial Design

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Published in Design Voices

·Jan 30, 2019

The design of everyday life

Contemplating the effects of personalization In Don Norman’s 2013 updated introduction to his seminal book The Design of Everyday Things(1988), he points out that the original edition was badly outdated because “technology has undergone massive change.” He says how new technologies have deeply influenced the principles of design, in particular…

UX

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The design of everyday life
The design of everyday life
UX

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Published in Design Voices

·Jul 11, 2018

How experience-led design informed a revolutionary new barbecue called Ferno

Last September, global design and innovation consultancy Fjord and its parent firm Accenture acquired Matter. A fast-growing product design consultancy based in San Francisco, Matter focused on the design of connected physical products including the PlayBase for Sonos and the Carnival Medallion for the Carnival Cruise Company. …

Industrial Design

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How experience-led design informed a revolutionary new barbecue called Ferno
How experience-led design informed a revolutionary new barbecue called Ferno
Industrial Design

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Published in Design Voices

·Jul 2, 2018

Connected spaces: the new frontier in product design

How architects and product designers are teaming up to create digital-physical experiences that are distinctly human With so much news over the past 18 months focused on how our digital data is being compromised and how our social media feeds are being cluttered with false information, one could be forgiven…

Design

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Connected spaces: the new frontier in product design
Connected spaces: the new frontier in product design
Design

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Mar 15, 2018

Building the Design Agency of Tomorrow

In my 30-year career as a designer, I have witnessed incredible change in what it means to be a designer and how that applies to the types of product I design. The first products I created were fairly straightforward. In fact it was possible for me to design, prototype and…

Design

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Design

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Published in Design Voices

·Feb 27, 2018

City with a brain

How connected technologies are changing the cities of tomorrow The fundamentals of what defines a city and how it works are being challenged to the core. Currently, more than half of the world’s population lives in urban areas, and by 2050, it is anticipated to increase to two thirds. …

Smart Cities

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City with a brain
City with a brain
Smart Cities

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