Amos Winter says product design for roughly the last 200 years has focused mainly on US and European markets.
“really all product design for last 200 or so years has been focused on, you know, US, European type markets.”
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Amos Winter says McDonald's mocked up its restaurant layout on a tennis court before designing a building and installing a kitchen.
“So before they designed a building and installed a kitchen, they mocked up the layout of the building on a tennis court.”
Global by Design proposes three tests for opportunities: problem merit, innovation merit and value merit.
“We talk about in the book three merits that you really need to check yourself whether you're satisfying before you launch into a new initiative.”
Amos Winter says a meeting with the USAID-style mission director for Gaza and the West Bank, who wanted solutions for farmers' water, energy and crops, inspired his work on irrigation and desalination.
“The most inspiring professional meeting I've ever had in my life was with the mission director for Gaza and West Bank.”
Amos Winter says AI still has knowledge gaps about the physical world, such as weather and friction, which limits its use in designing physical technologies.
“I work in physical technologies, and AI still has a lot of knowledge gaps around the physical world.”