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Category Archives: Product Design 2.0

Designing Products in the Web 2.0 World

Open Source Shoes

For all of you aspiring shoe designers out there, swing by the Fluevog store in the Haight tomorrow and bring a drawing of your dream shoe. Fluevog is hosting a party to honor the latest winner of their Open Source

Takeaways from Robin Chase of Zipcar

Robin Chase, founder of Zipcar, spoke last night at one of the David H. Liu Lectures put on by Stanford's Product Design Program. Here's a few things I took away from it. Continue reading Takeaways from Robin Chase of Zipcar >>

Web 3.0: The Rise of the Machines

The next web is all about the machines: hooking up our until-now "dumb" devices to the network and to each other. The next web will be one of placing humans in context with their objects and visa versa. Continue reading Web 3.0: The Rise of the Machines >>

Logobama: Inclusive Brand

I came across this site after reading The Daily Heller this morning. I love this. It's a side project done by Substance, out of Portland, OR. Continue reading Logobama: Inclusive Brand >>

WiFi Coming to a Device Near You

Research firm In-Stat predicts that shipments of consumer electronics with WiFi will reach 1 billion by 2012. Continue reading WiFi Coming to a Device Near You >>

Designing Products in an Open Source World

My friend and former colleague Brandon Schauer tipped me off to the Open Prosthetics Project. It's a really fascinating glimpse into the future of product design, when the values of "Web 2.0" (transparency, community participation, hackability, the sharing of data) permeate fully into the world of physical objects. Continue reading Designing Products in an Open Source World >>