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Marjolein de Wilde

Leaping forward through design research?


Marjolein de Wilde, March 24th, 2010
Laurens Looije

Achieving success through a giant leap or incremental steps?

I always thought it to be almost common understanding that if you want develop good quality products to gain a sustainable position on the market, knowing what your consumers want is crucial.

A provocative discussion that was raised by Donald Norman about the importance of understanding consumer needs left me a bit confused. He mentiones that:

“technology comes first, inventions second, and needs last”1It is science and technology that drive truly disruptive innovation, not Design’s focus on the needs and wants of people2.

Quite …

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