Hugh Knapp

I am an industrial designer and sociologist. I just completed my thesis exploring the following: How do social networks affect infant feeding practices of first-time mothers? I am now a design researcher at IBM.

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Creative Types by Adobe Create
A fun and quick 19-question personality type quiz to determine your creative type.
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Frontiers of Design
A great series of documentaries with leading designers discussing the ethical questions of how design has existed and where it needs to go next.
Business_design
Scarcity in UX: The psychological bias that became the norm
Good read on the use of scarcity as a selling tool and digital experience. Brief discussion on the ethical considerations when using a psychological bias like scarcity.
Rebuild By Design
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Rebuild By Design
Public participation at play in sustainable urban design.
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Road signs suck. What if we got rid of them all?
A pretty vicious title but this video shows the efficiency of designing roads with less signs and lights. However, there are negative implications for those living with disabilities. What should we do?
Biomimicry: Designing Trains with the Kingfisher in mind.
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Biomimicry: Designing Trains with the Kingfisher in mind.
A great case of how "natural" phenomena have informed human creation. In this example, a train in Japan takes inspiration from a Kingfisher, an owl, and a penguin for a smoother ride.
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Bandages for Kids That Heal Emotional Wounds, Not Physical Ones
FCB, along with a child psychologist, created a campaign for bandages for emotional wounds. Is this a way to bring mental health to the fore with physical responses to something perceived as intangible?
Tech
Cooling Paint: A Way to Deal with Rising City Temperatures?
Is this cooling paint a new way to tackle urban heat, and more broadly, affect climate change with increases in reflectivity?
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Kanye, deconstructed: The human voice as the ultimate instrument
Kanye, my hero, uses his voice from his hospital bed and manipulates it powerfully as his best instrument.