Wonder what makes Smashing Ideas so smashing? Our people! We sat down with Jeremy Flores, Associate Technical Director, to talk shop, about how the modern web is a mass of contradictions, the role of empathy within product design and development, and the top 5 tips he gives up and coming developers on how to succeed
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By Anna Ho, Senior Strategist Earlier this month I went out to San Francisco to attend the 2017 Habit Summit, a behavioral design conference hosted by Nir Eyal, best-selling author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. The conference featured a diverse line-up of speakers, from industry to academia, that spoke about the art and science of behavior
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CALLING ALL ORAL HEALTHCARE CHAMPIONS! We are looking for a select group of Philips Sonicare users to help innovate the future of oral healthcare technology. To be eligible to participate you must: – Currently use a Sonicare rechargeable electronic toothbrush – Be interested in technology – Be located in the Seattle area Participation will be compensated. Space
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By Melissa Cliver, Sr. Strategist, Adam Michel, Creative Director, and Nick Pollock, Sr. UX Designer Inspiration and the tipping point. At Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, a research team has been putting 1,000 participants through a variety of immersive VR scenarios to measure empathy at scale. Complementary exploratory efforts have led to the discovery of so-called mirror neurons in which the same neurons fire in
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Wonder what makes Smashing Ideas so smashing? Our people! We sat down with Paola Reyes-Sanchez, Design Director, to talk shop, how she maintains the creative vision of a project throughout its implementation, whether or not the digital community has a responsibility to do social good, and how being a city girl provides endless creative inspiration.
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