Desirability Lab
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Desirability Lab

Behavioral Science Meets Design

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      iFashion: Fashion design in your pocket

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      Lou & Grey sweatpants

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      Lola

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      Away Suitcase

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      Earring organizer

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  • Ecosistema Urbano

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    ecosistema urbano is a design and consulting company operating within the fields of urbanism, architecture, engineering and sociology, with offices in Madrid and Miami. Their approach is defined as urban social design,…

  • Adobe Capture

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    Adobe Capture is a phone/tablet app that is a part of the larger Adobe Creative Suite. It gives you the power to create production-ready color themes, patterns, vector-based shapes, 3D…

  • Liter for Light

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    Liter of Light is an open source design for a low-cost light tube that refracts solar light to provide daytime interior lighting for informal dwellings with thin roofs. Daylighting is cheaper than using indoor electric lights during…

  • Pleats Please by Issey Miyake

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    A collection of clothes by Issey Miyake made with a unique “garment pleating” technique where the materials combine functionality – they’re light and wrinkle-proof, they don’t need to be dry-cleaned,…

  • Urbz

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    urbz is an experimental action and research collective specialised in participatory planning and design. They work with on the ground in Mumbai, Bogotá, São Paulo, Geneva and Seoul with citizens, associations, local governments…

  • Self-Quarantine Safety Protection

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    At the beginning of March, when South Korea was the largest coronavirus outbreak centre outside of China, its government launched an attempt to keep things from escalating further: a smartphone…

  • Haptik Helpdesk

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    During the past few months of the pandemic, fighting misinformation and the panic it incites has been an extreme challenge. Given the accessibility of WhatsApp as a medium and people’s…

  • Drive and Listen

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    Given that we are all trapped indoors for the foreseeable future, Drive and Listen is a fun and simple solution that helps to ease our wanderlust (at least temporarily!). Logging…

  • Quarancharity

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    Given that the pandemic has left many demographics (such as India’s daily wage workers) struggling to make ends meet – innovative fundraisers such as Quarancharity attempt to pool resources to…

  • Google Arts and Culture

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    Google Arts & Culture is an online platform through which the public can view high-resolution images and videos of artworks and cultural artifacts from partner cultural organisations throughout the world.…

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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

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

Contact & Acknowledgements

RESEARCH LAB OFFICE:
Desirability Lab
Harvard University
Pierce Hall, No. 204C
Cambridge, MA 02138

THANKS TO:

Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences

Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching

Harvard Innovation Lab

Harvard Global Health Institute

Berkman Center for Internet and Society

SUTD-MIT International Design Center

April 20, 2020
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