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Andrew Macey Studying How We Use Gadgets Makes for Better Designs

Andrew Macey: Studying How We Use Gadgets Makes for Better Designs

Possibly no one knows more about how and why we use gadgets than the folks who design them.

Studying the behaviors and attitudes of potential users before designing a product is often the best practice, said Andrew Macey, chief operating officer of Herbst LaZar Bell Inc., a product-design firm better known as HLB, with offices in Chicago, Los Angeles and Waltham, Mass.

Integrating knowledge and design thinking are critical to a product's sales success, Macey said, but customers often are too impatient for that.

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