<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><atom:link href="https://www.mseymur.com/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><title>Seymur Mammadov · Writing</title><link>https://www.mseymur.com/blog</link><description>Notes on design, AI and research by Seymur Mammadov, product designer in Graz.</description><language>en</language><item><title>Teaching a Headset What Is in Your Hand</title><link>https://www.mseymur.com/blog/teaching-a-headset-what-is-in-your-hand</link><guid>https://www.mseymur.com/blog/teaching-a-headset-what-is-in-your-hand</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Building the study prototype on a Quest 3. What failed, the turn from recognising objects to finding shapes, why the products became cardboard, and what is left before the pilots.</description></item><item><title>Ask, Offer, or Show: The Study as It Stands</title><link>https://www.mseymur.com/blog/ask-offer-or-show-the-study-as-it-stands</link><guid>https://www.mseymur.com/blog/ask-offer-or-show-the-study-as-it-stands</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>The question the thesis ended up with, the studies it builds on, and how the comparison is set up so that a difference can be traced to one design decision.</description></item><item><title>Twenty People, a Pile of Papers, and Three Things I Got Wrong</title><link>https://www.mseymur.com/blog/twenty-people-a-pile-of-papers-and-three-things-i-got-wrong</link><guid>https://www.mseymur.com/blog/twenty-people-a-pile-of-papers-and-three-things-i-got-wrong</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>How a survey, a lot of reading and three corrections narrowed a whole shopping assistant down to one question: who should start the help.</description></item><item><title>It Started in a Shop</title><link>https://www.mseymur.com/blog/it-started-in-a-shop</link><guid>https://www.mseymur.com/blog/it-started-in-a-shop</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>My thesis began with a small question in a shop aisle: what is the difference between these two? How that question became a course project, then a thesis proposal, and what the proposal still had to learn.</description></item></channel></rss>