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Sigmund Freud: Ego-less design for better products

February 25th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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One of Freud's big legacies is to popularize the notion of the ego. Out of context, in 2007, ego has become a BAD thing. But Freud intended to represent the ego as a participant in a person's ecosystem of checks and balances. There's three big forces keeping people from going crazy: the ...

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The Intersection between Branding and UX design

February 15th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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Jobe's hilarious experiment in "blatant self-promotion" in the last 2 posts highlights an interesting dilemna for user experience designers: where to draw that fuzzy line between marketing and product. Branding is always part of the product. Bose speakers look like Bose speakers because they are Bose speakers... That's the magic of good industrial design. In ...

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