RKS Design's "monthly-ish" Newsletter

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RKS Design is a global design, development, and innovation consultancy. We elevate the human experience.

发布日期: 2024年3月28日
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The designer exists to help the curious go beyond the headlines and understand how design is changing the world. This includes analysis of emerging trends, interviews with designers, and breakdowns of great design-making waves in the world today. Click on the images to be taken to the original articles!

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Innovative Ideas

Breaking Alzheimer's Progression

Spectris Breaking Alzheimer's Progression Product Design
Cognito Therapeutics has introduced Spectris, a novel headset designed to combat Alzheimer's by enhancing brain gamma waves with light and sound. Phase II trials reveal its safety and potential in reducing cognitive decline, setting the stage for an upcoming Phase III evaluation.

How AI and Big Data Are Transforming the Automotive Industry

AI and Big Data Transforming Automative Industry Graphic for Product Design
AI and big data are propelling the automotive industry into a new era, refining vehicle upkeep, driving green initiatives, advancing autonomous safety, streamlining smart city traffic, tailoring in-car experiences, and transforming insurance. This heralds a safer, more efficient, sustainable driving future.

Boring Buildings Are Bad for Your Health

Boring Buildings are Bad for your Health Visual Depiction Product Design
Thomas Heatherwick champions a "humanize architecture" movement, emphasizing that unloved buildings harm the environment and well-being by often facing demolition, generating waste, and lacking charm. He advocates for structures that endure, delight, and blend nature to enhance mental health and attachment.

SXSW 2024 RECAP

Emerging SXSW Pitch Winners to Watch

SXSW 2024 Emerging Pitch Winners Product Design
The 2024 SXSW Pitch competition showcased 45 innovative companies across 9 categories, from AI to healthcare, underlining the creative power of startups in driving progress.

Applix

Applix SXSW Pitch Winner to Watch Product Design
Based in Austin, TX, won the Extended Reality and Web3 Category at SXSW 2024. Applix offers a spell checker for manufacturing defects, catering to Automotive, Industrial, and Medical Tech firms globally. Applix leverages Perception AI, Augmented Reality, and Digital Twins to deliver innovation, driving quality, efficiency, and precision in various industries.

Folio

Folio.works SXSW Pitch Winner to Watch Product Design
Folio.works

Lotus

Lotus SXSW Pitch Winner to Watch Product Design
Lotus introduced the Lotus Ring, a wearable device that enables control of home objects through simple pointing gestures, winning the Smart Cities, Transportation, & Sustainability Category at this year's SXSW. Lotus prioritizes accessibility by optimizing their technology for individuals with disabilities, ensuring usability for everyone.

WHAT WE'RE LISTENING TO

The State of UX in 2024

The State of UX in 2024 Graphic Product Design
The UX Collective's podcast explores late-stage UX design, paralleling late-stage capitalism with its market saturation, financial focus, commodification of experiences, automation, and financialization. It examines how corporations' influence on society and the economy limits designers' user advocacy.

WHAT WE'RE READING

Ruined by Design by Mike Monteiro

“Ruined by Design" by Mike Monteiro Product Design Book Cover
Mike Monteiro, cofounder of Mule Design, critiques the ethical responsibilities of designers, arguing that design often favors business over user well-being, causing societal harm. Monteiro urges designers to prioritize ethical practices, user rights, and dignity, advocating for positive industry change.







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