Desirability Lab
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      iFashion: Fashion design in your pocket

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      OPTIMIZE PRIME: Reimagining the Workspace

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Desirability Lab

Behavioral Science Meets Design

  • About the Lab
  • Design Learning
    • Design Learning

      iFashion: Fashion design in your pocket

      Design Learning

      Bucket (2.0)

      Design Learning

      HowTo

      Design Learning

      Nourishly

      Design Learning

      OPTIMIZE PRIME: Reimagining the Workspace

  • Product Desirability Reviews
    • Reviews

      Rose Gold Magnetic Dry Erase Monthly Calendar

      Reviews

      Lou & Grey sweatpants

      Reviews

      Lola

      Reviews

      Away Suitcase

      Reviews

      Earring organizer

  • PXDD Course
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  • Challenge 2A

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    For this challenge, I thought it would be interesting to manipulate images and make them queerer. The HBO example is most interesting because I believe that companies could easily manipulate…

  • What I’ve Got: Trader Joe’s

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    Though I hate grocery shopping, what gets me through it is being able to go to Trader Joe’s every week. Trader Joe’s, like what Starbucks aimed for back in the…

  • What I’ve Got: This Photo

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    I saw this photo on fashion blogger Aimee Song’s Instagram today (https://www.instagram.com/p/BTT4nGHDMe0/) and it immediately put me in summer vacation, wanderlust mode. I think it’s interesting how Instagram has turned…

  • What I’ve Got: YSL Lipstick

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    This week, I decided to post something a bit different from what I usually post – a physical beauty product in the form of YSL lipstick. I have been addicted…

  • What I’ve Got: BSA 3-Speed

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    A Craigslist bargain, my 1971 Birmingham Small Arms 3 Speed bike is my ticket to cruising around campus in style. My logic was, if it survived from 1971 to 2016…

  • What I’ve Got: Collapsible Fabric Laundry Hamper

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    Compared to the mesh hampers that you see around the laundry rooms on campus, my fabric one is positively stylish. I spent a few days without it and I quickly…

  • What I’ve Got: Uggs

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    The American fascination with men wearing Uggs has always confused me. I’ve had a pair of Uggs for as long as I can remember, and the fact that they’re unfashionable…

  • What I’ve Got: Henley Steward’s Enclosure Badge

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    The Henley Royal Regatta has come up before in my WIGs, in the form of my Harvard Henley blazer. The essential companion to a Henley Blazer is a handsome badge…

  • What I’ve Got: Nikon D5100

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    A gift from my grandparents a few years ago, my Nikon D5100 is an awesome travel companion that provides a huge step up from the normal happy snaps that I…

  • Challenge 8: pov

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    The desirability for me is not necessarily about revolutionary concept and business model like what Uber have. It is more about catering the one or two specific need of certain…

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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
Best Idea
This is my favorite idea from the challenge. Not only do I think this is high need for students, but... View
Happy Cafe
April 20, 2020
need it
I would love to see this come true. While I agree Harvard did solid job with the student spaces, I t... View
Skyview Commons
April 20, 2020
Good combination
Big fan of the app, and I especially like how it is essentially an upgrade to the various things peo... View
Wanderbus: Adventure, sustainably
April 20, 2020
super cool
I love this idea a lot. There is so much potential for more avant-garde uses of the Smith campus cen... View
Skyview Commons

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