Research

This is our fourth and final installment of a case study developed to highlight PatternFox’s Biologically Inspired Design (BID) methodology while pursuing the design question: What can nature teach us about designing transport packaging for a decentralized delivery system? If you are new to this blog series, or need a refresher, you can find all…

PatternFox, has been developing a BID case study to illustrate how we apply a rigorous design method, as well as to learn about one particular important problem we believe can be addressed using biology: What can nature teach us about designing transport packaging for a decentralized delivery system? Part I of our case study introduced…

In this Part II of our case study, we continue to pursue the answer to the question, What can nature teach us about designing transport packaging for a decentralized delivery system? Part I of our case study focused on understanding the current system in which the problem exists and why the problem is a problem. …

I don’t feel like I’m exaggerating when I say that e-commerce has changed the way every one of us shops.  From browsing and vetting products before in-store purchases to buying and shipping direct to our homes, the way we buy goods has changed.  In 2017, fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) online sales accounted for 7% of…