Webcast: Design for Emerging Markets

Webcast: Design for Emerging Markets

If you have an interest in humanitarian design and product development, you'll want to tune in this Thursday, October 29, to a live online seminar "Designing Products for Emerging Markets," with designers Masuma Henry and Martijn Van Tilburg of Seattle's Artefact creative consultancy.
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Specializing in user experience, design and technology, Henry and Van Tilburg will take a process-oriented approach, explaining the various phases of planning, development, and anthropological research that go into creating products for emerging markets. The one-hour "designcast" is intended to give designers applicable information for maximizing the opportunities available in this field.

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As a bonus, ID Magazine, the producers of this seminar, will be throwing in a free download of their "Design in China" special section from their June 2008 issue, which features a plethora of interesting content about current trends in architecture, design and culture in the rapidly growing nation.

If you'd like to register, click here. The session airs at 4pm Eastern/1pm Pacific on Thursday, October 29.

Image: Lifestraw water purification device

Sarah Rich
When not working in design, Sarah Rich writes, talks and forecasts about food and consumer culture.

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