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  • WHAT I’VE GOT: Amazon Prime

    by Jing Chang April 1, 2020

    Original review post title: What I’ve got: Amazon Prime Link to the original review: What is it? Amazon Prime: a membership subscription of Amazon Why do you think it’s desirable?…

  • WHAT I’VE GOT: Glossier

    by Jing Chang April 1, 2020

    Original review post title:  What I’ve Got: Glossier Link to the original review: What is it? Glossier Why do you think it’s desirable? Do your best to explain what you…

  • WHAT I’VE GOT: Blender Bottle

    by Jing Chang April 1, 2020

    Original review post title: What I’ve Got: Blender Bottle Link to the original review: What is it? Blender Bottle Why do you think it’s desirable? Do your best to explain…

  • WHAT I’VE GOT: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (and its promenade)

    by Jing Chang April 1, 2020

    Original review post title: WHAT I’VE GOT: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (and its promenade) Link to the original review: What is it? Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts…

  • What I’ve Got: YSL Lipstick

    by Jing Chang March 31, 2020

    Original review post title: What I’ve Got: YSL Lipstick Link to the original review: What is it? YSL Lipstick Why do you think it’s desirable? Do your best to explain…

  • 3D Warehouse

    by Jing Chang March 30, 2020

    3D Warehouse is a website that people could share and download 3d models.  Besides the exchange of files, users can also exchange thoughts, raise questions and help each other on…

  • Blender Bottle

    by Jing Chang March 30, 2020

    Blender bottles are not regular bottles.  They are designed to solve people to needs for making smoothie and milkshakes fast on the go.  Just with a mall blender ball inside,…

  • 3D Printer

    by Jing Chang March 30, 2020

    3D Printers are to solve people’s needs for creating complex geometries which could be hardly made by hands.  For manufacturer and designers, 3D Printers are essential in making and design…

  • Faktum Hotel

    by Jing Chang March 30, 2020

    Faktum Hotels in Gothenburg, Sweden has foregone the traditional route of traditional rooms for places that the city’s homeless might use.  Meant to raise awareness of the homeless living in…

  • Aktiv Model Home: the Ideabox + IKEA House

    by Jing Chang March 30, 2020

    Based on people’s needs for cheap good and easy-to-built houses, Ideabox and IKEA work together to come up with the design for a house model, which could be shipped flat…

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Selected News…

Fifteen Professors of the Year, Harvard Crimson, 2016

Top 50 Thinkers: On the Radar 2018
Emerging thinkers with the potential to make lasting contributions
, 2018

Laura Dern & DL Director Say Creators Need to ‘Catch Up’ With Audience’s Desire for Diverse Stories, AdWeek, 2018

Designing digital workspaces for creativity and collaboration in online project-based courses, MIT Media Lab, 2020

A living (room) lab: With students off campus, faculty and staff innovated to redesign hands-on courses, Harvard SEAS, 2020

Chef League (mobile game) challenges you to improvise recipes like the pros, VentureBeat, 2019.

When it comes to innovation, it’s personal: The secret to successful innovation isn’t a great idea; it’s great people, The Business Post, 2019

Smart kitchens need smarter ideas to solve real problems, Fortune, 2019

Design for Desirability: Game design challenge requires students to think outside the box, Harvard SEAS, 2019

Apply the science of desirability to game design at GDC, Gamasutra: The art and business of making games, 2019

Applying human-centered design processes to build successful teams. Into Practice, Harvard Vice Provost Office for Advances in Learning, 2019

Tech that helps us understand ourselves, Future Assembly, 2019

Women changing the way we think about innovation. Stern Speakers, 2019

Loneliness, the fear of digital nomads, Le Temps. (in French), 2019

LA Design Festival spotlights city’s ‘creative diversity and talent’, Dezeen, 2018

Rolling toward a user-friendly commute
Harvard faculty-led startup pioneers human-centric urban travel
, 2017; Vespa’s New Robot Will Carry Your Groceries, CNN Money, 2017

Five Cutting Edge Ideas and Attractions, Boston.com, 2017; Technology That Helps Us Understand Ourselves, HUBWeek, 2017

Food for Thought: Flavor & Algorithms, MIT Museum, 2017

Harvard Aims to Reinvent Business-Engineering Education, Harvard Magazine, 2017

Globetrotting Digital Nomads: The future of work or too good to be true?, Forbes, 2015; Why is a Harvard professor studying digital nomads, Nomadlist, 2015

The nature of desirability, The Design Issue, Kinfolk Magazine (paywall), 2015-2016

Harvard Class Teaches the Design of Desirability, Boston Magazine, 2015

A new model for innovation in big companies, Harvard Business Review, 2013

Present at the Creation (Putting research-based creativity tips to the test), Boston Magazine, 2013

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