DUp 📨 Issue 152 > VR vs AI, Mission Impossible, Interactive prototyping with Escapement, Accessible Design, Scaling Research and more!

Digital media has created a fundamental shift "from expressing content to just delivering content", according to British designer Neville Brody. "We don't have the freedom of editorial expression anymore - digital content is all fed through the same sausage machine”.

Against the cult of “giving people what they want” - read on to find out how Brian De Palma revived a devalued franchise through a brilliant exercise in addressing business concerns.

VR / AR used to be the “new, new thing,” but despite Apple’s Vision Pro, the excitement has waned. Read on to find out where the two technologies intersect or diverge.

Sarah Hendren, design researcher and author, illustrates a mindset of “expansion over diminishment” for Accessible Design, through some powerful examples.

Learn how to scale and democratize product research in your organization with these five principles.

Why exploration should always be a part of your design process, and how to make time for it.

In a symphony of sound and design, studio FAY has orchestrated a captivating branding and visual identity for spatial sound studio Lobe.

Created by Kevin Cantrell and Satellite Agency, for Freedom Reads, a NFP that empowers people in prison through literature. The website, aimed at donors as well as corrective centers, is designed to feel “wonderfully grand”, like the experience of reading a full-page newspaper double spread.

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