Design Insights

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Learning from the past to Design the Future City

Barcelona, New York City, San Francisco, Birmingham, and Helsinki, among many other cities, are looking for ways to reclaim space from cars and repurpose it into plazas, pedestrian streets, parks, and outdoor sitting for businesses. And doesn’t this picture look familiar? Photographs and movies from decades ago paint a scene where streets are not only a means to reach a destination but rather a destination in itself.

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Connecting the Dots

We are pleased to announce a series of blog posts about “Connecting the Dots” between Human-Centered Design and the world in which we work and live

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Zebra companies

Zebra Companies work together and, while striving for profitability, their values are set to improve society.

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Understanding people

In order to fully understand people you have to go beyond standard tags of gender, age, income level and get to know them as people: how do they live? What are their needs and aspirations? Who and what do they trust and why?

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