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Design / Sustainable Design

Exploring IKEA’s Sustainable Design Strategy: Part One

07/14/202007/14/2020 - by Rafiq Elmansy

The design adds various values inside any company. At the top of these values is building a company-wide strategy such as IKEA sustainable design strategy. Strategic design and good design management are essential for any organization to achieve innovation, which …

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Jumping into Design Thinking? Read These Books First

04/14/202004/14/2020 - by Rafiq Elmansy

Can you think that following a design thinking process five steps turns you into creative innovator?! Believe me, it isn’t and never has been this way. The spread of the term design thinking is aligned with significant amount misleading of criticism. …

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Design

30+ Distance Learning Tools And Advices for Design Educators

03/16/2020 - by Rafiq Elmansy

In response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, many educational institutions have recommended their students to switch to distance learning or online learning to reduce the chances to get infected and reduce physical contact. This action is challenging because of 1) …

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Medical Innovation

Tips to Achieve Patient-Centred Health Technology

01/20/2020 - by Rafiq Elmansy

Healthcare systems are facing more challenges than before. The increasing number of patients, especially with chronic diseases pushes the healthcare industry to innovative solutions, including adopting health technology and medical innovation. The traditional clinical practice depends on an informed relationship …

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PESTLE Analysis
Innovation

PESTLE Analysis and When to Use it

04/03/201904/03/2019 - by Rafiq Elmansy

Finding a creative idea is only the first step in every innovation process, understanding the whole picture about business and forecast both internal and external factors that may affect it is critically required before releasing to the market. At this …

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Medical Innovation

Four Reasons to Expand Mobile Technology Usage in Medical Innovation

03/12/201911/14/2020 - by Rafiq Elmansy

The healthcare systems around the world are faced with increased challenges including increasing costs, lack of working staff, and of course long waiting lists putting in mind that healthcare expenditure consumes a large portion of the countries’ GDP. For example, …

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Medical Innovation

Five Reasons to Utilise Patient-Centric Medical Innovation

09/24/201810/01/2020 - by Designorate Team

The medical innovation is an opportunity for the healthcare system to overcome many of the challenges that face this sector in both developed and underdeveloped countries–think about the long waiting lists and the quality of the provided service. Overall, medical …

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Design Thinking

The Role of Storytelling in the Design Process

09/24/201807/06/2019 - by Rafiq Elmansy

Storytelling is in the heart of our DNA as a human being, it helps us connect events is a holistic experience through time. This unique nature of stories makes it one of the essential tools during the design process of …

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Why Design Thinking Doesn’t Work

09/17/2018 - by Rafiq Elmansy

Many articles have recently addressed design thinking as one of the methods to solve problems and achieve innovation by focusing on human needs. However, the over-commercialisation and promotions have led to a backfire on the tool itself as it doesn’t …

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Design Thinking

How to Apply Root Cause Analysis Using 5 Whys

08/02/2018 - by Rafiq Elmansy

The root cause analysis aims to dig deep into a particular problem to identify the primary cause behind it. One of the most significant challenges that face us when trying to solve a problem is that what we perceive as …

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Guerrilla User Experience
User Experience

Guerrilla User Experience for Quick, Low-Budget Research

05/16/201805/16/2018 - by Rafiq Elmansy

Building a user-centered design requires a deep understanding of consumer experience, which can be only achieved through an in-depth research process prior to building the first product prototype. However, as a designer, one of the common challenges when conducting user …

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Design Thinking

Measuring the Impact of Design Thinking

04/10/2018 - by Rafiq Elmansy

The term design thinking has been widely used to describe the application of design process’s characteristics and distinguish it from other development processes such as the focus of user needs. These characteristics have been framed into different design thinking models …

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Design Thinking

Why Companies Need to Apply Design Thinking

01/22/2018 - by Rafiq Elmansy

Until the moment of writing this article, many companies are still having a lack of understanding the notion of design thinking. I believe this may be a result of two main factors; the first one that is many companies still …

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Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
Design Thinking

How to Apply the Failure Mode and Effects Analysis in Design

10/26/2017 - by Rafiq Elmansy

Out worst fear in design is to end up with a failed product. At this particular moment, we pause and wonder; if we would know this will going to happen, we could have taken another route. The Failure Modes and …

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social innovation
Innovation

My Advice to Innovators From Years in Cambodia Designing New Solutions to Poverty

08/15/201708/15/2017 - by Nadia Campos

For the last decade, I’ve been designing solutions that improve human well-being in the developing world. For those who want to apply design thinking to situations of extreme constraints, like rural Cambodia, my iDE collaborator, Jose Mena, and I have …

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