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Design Thinking | Ideation | Improve | Innovate | Wheels
The ENGESA Mercedes truck
CrystalPlanet: The ENGESA Mercedes truck in Lego
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Soap Dispenser Design
Soap Dispenser Design This here is an ancient shampoo dispenser that broke last month. It was a crappy design for a few reasons. Firstly, because of how the pumps are placed (at the bottom). It would not stand on its own when you needed to refill. You either…
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PayTM’s UI
PayTM’s user interface PayTM‘s web user interface (not sure about the mobile app), can be a little misleading. We as users, are almost completely programmed to click the ‘Accept Terms’ checkbox on any application. Especially on a known one where we are almost at the end of an action or purchase. Then, it seems cunning…
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Creating and Understanding Customer Feedback
Creating and Understanding Customer Feedback If you’ve ever ordered waffles online, most likely they’ll come in one of two kinds of packaging. One is clean like in the pic above. The other is where all of them in thin paper holders will be stuffed into a box. Quite messy. Anyway, say you ordered a few…
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Can We Do Better than CSR?
Can We Do Better than CSR? In India, Section 135 and Schedule VII of the Companies Act (2013) relate to corporate social responsibility (CSR). For a few years now, it requires companies clocking over a certain turnover or profit, to spend 2% of (their three-year annual) net profit on CSR activities each financial year. Allotting…
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Carlsberg – Boldly Beer’ing Global Burdens
Beer’ing Global Burdens Consider the amount of plastic we use in our lives. Getting rid of a lot of it seems like quite a challenge, considering how dependent we and businesses have become on it. And yet, it is refreshing to see companies like Carlsberg committed to drastically reducing the use of plastics. A few…
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Design Thinking | Improve | Innovate | Wheels
Airbags and the Height of Drivers
Airbags and the Height of Drivers About a month ago, Honda introduced a new concept airbag for their vehicles. The challenge for them, was protecting drivers from angular collisions. In such cases, the driver’s head seemed to slide off the airbag and cause injury. The inspiration for them…Baseball mitts (or gloves). The result. A frontal…
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Will Uber Disrupt Itself?
Will Uber Disrupt Itself? Most of you must have seen this image (or a version of it) in the last few years. I remember a lot of people sharing it or referring to it with almost a sense of pride and relief. It was almost as if the world had found a way to get…
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Customer is King | Design Thinking | Human Behaviour | Improve | Life or something like it | Young Minds
Where Do We Go Now?
Where Do We Go Now? Google’s AdSense program let’s publishers or website owners have relevant ads show up when users visit those sites. Google earns revenues (via their Google Ads – previously AdWords platform) from businesses wanting those ads showing up to relevant customer groups. In turn, they pass on some of that revenue (based…
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Navigating Airport Security
Navigating airport security… A cartoon strip..