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A Gap in Specialty Coffee Industry

I believe there is a “gap” between coffee suppliers and consumers. Some industry professionals are trying to make specialty coffee more accessible to the masses, while others are doing the opposite. In the following, I will share my personal experiences to reveal …

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Gulf of Creation

Most critically, in a document published by d.school called Bootcamp Bootleg, designers are guided to reduce the problem space to a single problem statement during the “Define” stage, using a statement as the link between the …

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Design, What for?

They were more concerned with whether the user could successfully input the data rather than whether the experience of doing so was enjoyable. While this approach is still user-centered, it is more about designing for “needs” rather than designing for …

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Interviewing the Elderly

Sometimes, the elderly person’s response may stray from the question. From my observation, this mainly occurs when asking open-ended questions or demographic questions, as elderly people often …

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What the Hell is Design Thinking?

When it comes to a ‘what’ question, people tend to answer ‘how’ instead. Why not? A toolkit, a framework, a model, a pattern is much more ‘tangible’ than a list of principles, a concept, a discipline, though not visible …

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