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Fiona McLarenApr 48 min read

The way that we book travel is broken

Right now, airlines, rail and other transport providers have an enormous opportunity to…

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HJ KwonMar 212 min read

How did we not see this coming?

Lessons of political predictions and digital product development

I was recently listening to the New Yorker podcast (here’s a link) about how pundits have been blindsided by the seemingly out of nowhere…

HJ KwonMar 175 min read

Billion Dollar Interviews:

Losing a $1 billion in revenue and using conversations to understand people’s real problems.

The world’s largest retailer discovered one quick to lose $1 billion in revenue, simply ask consumers…

Isaac PinnockMar 154 min read

On Becoming A User

Thinking about design with some help from Carl Rogers

Made by ManyMar 152 min read

Asking The Big Questions About Innovation Labs

Read our new report — then come and tell us your…

HJ KwonMar 144 min read

Design Research, Justworks and that song stuck in your head

“It’s like having a song you don’t know the name of stuck in your head, you know how it goes but how do you find out what it’s called?”

Christine SadrnooriMar 103 min read

UX & conflict resolution: co-designing solutions

I am a digital product designer. For the last 8 years, I have talked to a lot of people — colleagues, clients, consumers — and designed empathetically. By observing others, I have learned more about myself and how to better adapt. My profession…

tim malbonMar 99 min read

The Solution To Design Thinking

And why making is fact, and everything else is opinion

A little over a week ago I posted The Problem With Design Thinking and I wanted to follow up with a piece that explains a bit more about the full-stack…

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tim malbonMar 42 min read

Something magical just happened at Made by Many

Yesterday we welcomed the on- and offline magic school Abracademy into our studio for the next few months as a ‘start-up in residence’. What the hell are we…

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tim malbonMar 4

Because one of the biggest obstacles I run into in helping clients develop new products and services is what I’ve come to call, “Because Tradition.”

Money is Culture

Farrah Bostic

One of my resolutions for 2016 is “ignore precedent”. Precedent has never been less useful than it is today.

PermitFullExpressionMar 212 min read

On Designing For Complexity, Emergence, Collaboration, Adaptivity and Joy

A conversation between Tim Malbon of product innovation consultancy Made by Many, Oliver Marlow of architectural practice Studio Tilt, and Jon Marshall of industrial designers Map Project Office

tim malbonFeb 245 min read

The Problem with Design Thinking

It may have a great name, but Design Thinking no longer packs a punch big enough to drive universe-denting, full-stack innovation. Here’s why we need ‘Full-Stack Design Thinking’.

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Sam SmallFeb 212 min read

Workshops, glorious workshops

If all you’ve ever known are meetings, it’s time to change

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Scott LuptowskiFeb 116 min read

Learning Elixir by Building a Happy Number Finder

I recently started learning Elixir and decided to build a Happy Number Finder. This is one of my favorite programming problems — despite the name, it has very little to do with math. Instead, the solution to a Happy Number Finder involves…

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Tom WhiteFeb 92 min read

A faster way to paper prototype

I recently created a Keynote template to help with paper prototyping. It has seemed a few others in the Made by Many design team have found it useful so I thought I’d share it with you as well.

Why we paper prototype

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Fiona McLarenFeb 94 min read

Experiments in remote user testing

Customers are at the heart of everything we make at Made by Many. We try to ensure we’re always talking to them, showing them our work in progress, and getting their feedback regularly throughout the course of a project.