Michael Mitchell’s Post

What to do with your next product idea? The answer is within Sketch! It may not be pretty But it will help. #design #industrialdesign #skecthing #productsketch #smallbusiness

Charles Eames emphasizes the significance of details in creating impactful design. #DesignDetails #CharlesEames

The shape of things to come... A design project I have thoroughly enjoyed working on, is about to launch. More details to follow soon. #productdesign #packagingdesign #bottledesign #industrialdesign

Let the simplest design speaks for itself.

For highlighting design progress: "From sketches to reality, every curve and line tells a story. Proud to share the journey of transforming ideas into a bold design that will soon hit the streets! #AutomotiveDesign #DesignJourney #ConceptToCreation"

Criteria help us decide which ideas are best, and some criteria show up again and again. After a short description of Weighted Design Matrices, I cover these criteria: inexpensive, durable, reliable, safe, and sustainable. You'll learn how and when to use these criteria, and make better design decisions. https://lnkd.in/gy7b_rtg #heroicdesign #productdesign #design

I finally wrote my first medium article about the importance of design crits! 🎉 As a designer, I find it really helpful to get feedback early on from all my key stakeholders and make sure that we're all aligned and are on the same page. In the article I talk about the importance of involving your engineering and product partners and also how to conduct design crits. I also want to give a big shoutout to Eric Cipra for being one of my best mentors and teaching me the importance of design crits, and how to efficiently run this as a workshop! Design crits can be run in so many different shapes and forms. Would love to hear from you all of what techniques have worked well for you in the past!

Btw I'm not at all suggesting that people don't experience design in day to day living The American Philosopher Wilfrid Sellars once made a distinction between the manifest image of reality and the scientific one. The manifest image is comprised of people, tables, colors, design, money, economies, politics, psychology, religion, free will, moral responsibility, goals, purposes, etc, and all the other things you experience without any scientific account of reality to assist you. The scientific image is what we find things to be once we investigate rigorously what they are via all the tools of serious scientific inquiry. The world of quarks, cosmology, chemical elements, molecules, proteins, cells, etc.... An amoral and non-teleological domain. He made the distinction because of how radically different these pictures of describing reality appear to be. Now, there's a running debate in some quarters of Philosophy --I doubt scientists care much about these questions..-- whether the scientific image renders the manifest image wholly illusory. ...Or whether it's possible to reconcile the disparate vocabularies of these views of reality. Some in the first camp even appropriate a saying by some Irish Philosopher of old--Bishop Berkeley: "Speaking with the vulgar, while thinking with the learned", to describe the inevitability of being a human being that can't escape experiencing the manifest image (speaking with the vulgar) but is aware of it's irreconcilablity with the scientific image (Thinking with the learned). Those in the second camp think that Science does not impact the epistemic standing of those items in the manifest image which we all have to deal with in daily life. In fact, Wilfrid Sellars recommended philosophers take on the task of reconciling these seemingly radically different perspectives on reality! Something to think about!

Design: it looks simple, but there's a world of complexity behind every line and curve. For those who think it's easy, think again. True design balances simplicity with intricate detail. #DesignIsArt #ComplexSimplicity #AIinDesign #CreativeGenius #DesignInnovation #BehindTheDesign