Design will kill marketing, says Ikea’s former design chief
Marcus Engman is leaving Ikea to run a consultancy that convinces companies to spend their marketing budget on what matters: design.

Qian Yang (Research Fellow in Digital Health, Ph.D. student), John Zimmerman (Researcher, Professor), both at Carnegie Mellon University Human-Computer Interaction Institute.
Robert Xiao, Teng Cao, Ning Guo, Jun Zhuo, Yang Zhang and Chris Harrison
Yang Zhang - lead researcher; Jack Yang - researcher; Scott E. Hudson - lab advisor; Chris Harrison - lab advisor; Alanson Sample - lab advisor
Gautam Bose created custom servo motor driver software for robot control and animation; Lucas Ochoa modeled, fabricated and created the custom hardware; Marisa Lu did web development for communication between devices and animation for the phone face
Robert Xiao, Teng Cao, Ning Guo, Jun Zhuo, Yang Zhang and Chris Harrison