Experiential-Brand-Language

Why You Need Experiential Brand Language

 BY MARK MONEYPENNY & DEVIN MOORE

Don’t leave a brand to chance.

The River Stone Phenomenon: Have you ever picked up a river stone and held it? There is something about the shape, smoothness, and warmth/coolness of the rock that feels good in your hand. These characteristics create a cause and effect relationship. An experience is created and the effect is a calming emotional connection. We don’t know why exactly it feels that way, but it’s just right.

 

This phenomenon is very present in products. Attributes that users aren’t conscious of can often define the experience of a product. Our senses ignite in the very first moments of interacting with a product, and if designed thoughtfully can generate a powerful experience and a lasting emotional connection.

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Big-Bang

Why Work with Big Bang – and How it Will Transform Your Product Design

 BY DEVIN MOORE, STEVE MEISTER, & ERICK RIOS

The story of our success is less about the technology and tools we use and more about the team we build for each engagement. Led by senior members, each project team is assembled for the purpose of consistently building inspiring and engaging product experiences, and enduring trust with our clients.

Watch the video of what makes us Big Bang:

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selecting-screens

Six Thoughts on Selecting Screens for Products at the Intersection of Tactile and Digital

 BY ERICK RIOS, BRIAN WONG SHUI & DEVIN MOORE

In a movement akin to Manifest Destiny, hardware (tactile product) development has increasingly been pulled into the digital frontier, creating an ever-higher demand, and expectation, for products that rely on interactive and display screens for a major portion of a device’s experience. These products bring a set of unique problems centering on their digital displays, and products in all fields can attribute much of their success or failure to a development team’s ability to choose the right screen.

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Product-Development-Decisions

How Using Northstar Can Guide the Best Product Development Decisions

BY MARK MONEYPENNY & DEVIN MOORE

If you’re lost, just look up.

At Big Bang, our clients challenge us every day to deliver rich and inspiring product experiences, and a vital piece of these experiences is the client’s brand. The product development process contains countless decision points, and at each of these decision points one option can direct more towards the brand than the others. Making the right choice can be complicated by many factors, like deadlines, outside input, as well as the often microscopic differences between each option. We’ve developed a guide to making these decisions called Northstar. So at every decision point, we just look up.

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illustration for agile product development

Using Agile as a Catalyst for Innovation in Product Development

BY DEVIN MOORE

Improving innovation content is essential to our business, as our clients expect ever more innovative solutions to rather complex problems.

 

A few years ago Big Bang began using Agile and Agile-like processes on our hardware programs that included digital interaction and GUIs. We have come to appreciate the user focused exercises and problem solving. In addition I am convinced that Agile processes can be a platform for innovation, essential as technology becomes integral to physical products and we are asked to deliver more and more inspiring product experiences.

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