‘Human-centered’ design, as currently practiced, is problematic. For the convenience and delight of the ‘user,’ we create products that are cheap and desirable but create environmental and social damage through their production, service, and after-life. To support these consumption patterns, we have moved from participating in the global ecosystem into…

Prototyping for innovation in early product design stages — or: how we learned to love shitty prototypes. A prototype is not just a demo of a future product, it’s a tool that helps you understand and define what a future product could and should be. Prototypes are usually used to…

The Power Glove was Nintendo’s first foray into motion-controlled gaming. But the product produced by Mattel was ahead of its time; gaming systems of the early 90s were not able to render 3D graphics or even accommodate analog control inputs. In the current era of AR/VR development, the Power Glove’s…

We have been working on connected and autonomous car projects at TEAGUE for a while now. We have found it to be indispensable to use physical prototypes to test our designs with users.

This is a Teague Labs post. For an interactive version of the article, view the original article. Yesterday we had a somewhat silly idea and since we had an afternoon of open time, we went ahead and made it. The inspiration came from ustwo’s mouth off app which uses sound…

Light bulbs have been the first significant step many people and companies have taken into the connected home. Moving forward, connected light bulbs might not only provide light; they are also perfectly positioned to host microphones, cameras, speakers, or other technologies without adding new wiring or other infrastructure. However, turning…

Every evening I plug my phone into the charger and set my alarm for the next morning. I could keep doing it this way, but I thought there should be a more elegant way that combines these two activities. So we prototyped a connected inductive charging dock. Putting the phone…

We made a lamp. Why? For one, we like making things — sometimes just for the sake of making things. But this lamp was made to explore one of the many connected home hypotheses we’ve been wrestling with lately. Specifically, we wanted to address the unnecessarily large gap that exists…