Design@SAIF - Issue #24

Thirty.

That's what this week's list adds up to: 3 Things UX Designers can learn from their cousins—Industrial Designers, 20 years of design innovation, 7 pitch decks of Unicorns (before they were Unicorns). Plus there's the numerically hard-to-classify story on bots reading our mental states. 

Twenty years of Design innovation

"History has its calm spots, long stretches where nothing much happens and the lives of men remain fundamentally unchanged. The last two decades were not such a time." This is an "expansive" look at the small and big things that slowly and surely altered the course of design...

The Early Pitch Decks of 7 Startups Before They Became Billion-Dollar Companies

Wish I've had this at hand before! "For nearly all the most valuable investor-backed companies in tech, nailing a pitch to early potential investors was a step on the journey." Via @harvarddesi

3 Things UX Designers Can Learn From Industrial Design

In late 2012, Apple expanded the role of its universally respected chief of industrial design, Jonathan Ive, to include "leadership and direction for human interface" design. Six months later, the tech commentariat had turned on him.

The next gen of bots can respond to your mental state

The machines are coming and they're getting sensitive (and they don't look like what they show in sci-fi movies). It's fascinating how a "variety of cues, including typing patterns, speech tone, facial expressions, and body movements" can tell a lot about our mental states—and how to design around these new paradigms (worth a think).

Until next week,

@JDallcaps @SAIFpartners