The Downward Trend of Design

[looselyspeaking]

@ip_wirelessly

Far from being a mathmetician…I believe these trends are also a ratio of search volume to term. If the overall search volume increases year over year isn’t it going to show a dilution of volume on a percentage basis?

I believe so. It came up a few weeks ago as well

Google trends and the scale of the industry

So I’ve been enamored with Google trends lately. Got curious about how geography, web searches, and the passage of time apply to the field. So I did a few trends searches at: http://www.google.com/insights/search/# using the terms “product development,” “new product development,” “industrial design,” “product design,” and “cost reduction.” Not sure what I’d find - but I thought the results were interesting, as in most of these there was a marked decline in search volume (you may also want t…