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As design and engineering professionals you are no-doubt familiar with lots of tools and techniques that you can employ in your work like task analysis and usability testing. But did you realize there are over 900 design and innovation methods at your disposal? But which ones are worth mastering and incorporating into your daily work? Are there methods that are more indispensable and better suited for today’s design and business challenges? CEO and Co-Founder of LUMA Institute, Chris Pacione, will discuss the research he and his team conducted on design methodology and a new framework that emerged from this research called “A Taxonomy of Innovation”. He will share what they learned and then facilitate a quick hands-on workshop designed to highlight some specific ways of leveraging these methods to deliver more useful, usable and desirable solutions, more often.

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Digital Ink is a design research concept. Part design, part critique, it is the integration of current and future technologies into a mobile and socially familiar object. Digital ink is a sophisticated pen that allows people to take notes, sketch, and save the "physical" data they generate, digitally and automatically. It strives to turn mobile computing and interaction on it's head by turning the monitor into a piece of paper and the keyboard and mouse into the pen itself. It's designed so people can do things they normally do with any pen, but also fax, print, plan and correspond with others.

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