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Design History
TLAs
Product Technology
Land of 10,000 Lakes
100

These cities are the home to Resideo's primary office locations in the USA

Scottsdale, Golden Valley, Melville, Aurora

100

This popular UI style of the 1990s and 2000s emulated the aesthetics of physical objects in the user interface

Skeumorphism

100

LOB

Line of Business

100

This connectivity standard was created by companies such as Google, Apple, and Resideo to improve interoperability of smarthome products

Matter

100

This famous Minnesota-born musician, known for hits like "Purple Rain" and "When Doves Cry," is often referred to as the "King of Pop."

Prince

200

In this year Honeywell announced the spinoff of various business units, including one that would become Resideo

In 2017 Honeywell announced the spinoffs that would be complete by end of the following year in 2018

200

Released in 1990, this product changed the design industry by trading the brush for the computer mouse, proving a revolutionary way of creating and distributing graphic designs.

Photoshop

200

RNC

Residential New Construction

200

Allowing customers to reduce their energy usage during peak periods, this thermostat feature helps fight climate change by minimizing the use of low-efficiency temporary power stations during peak periods.

 Demand Response

200

This famous fast food chain was founded in the blizzardly city of Joliet, Minnesota in 1940.

Diary Queen

300

The name Resideo was created by combining these two words

Residential & Presidio (Spanish for a fortified settlement)

300

The Bauhaus movement from 1919-1933 changed the approach to design through this founding principle.

"Form follows function"

300

KSP

Key Selling Point

300

Hybrid security panels are called "hybrid" because they can support both of these things at the same time.

Wired and wireless sensors.

300

After the Vietnam war, the Hmong refugees who fled this country were resettled in Minnesota due to the state's infrastructure, social services, housing, and job training programs, making Minnesota the second largest Hmong population in the US.

Laos

400

The general cloud cost to keep a connected product online for one year

Roughly $2-3 / yr

400

As the head of design for Apple products such as the Ipod, Jony Ive was inspired by this legendary Braun designer

Dieter Rams

400

GDR

Global Device Registry

400

This term refers to radiation waves that travel through space. It includes short wavelength microwaves to heat your lunch in the studio, and medium length waves for our eyes to see light and color, and even the long wavelength radio waves that allow our products to connect to WiFi.

The electromagnetic spectrum.

400

The Mississippi River begins its journey to the Gulf of Mexico in this northern Minnesota city.

Itasca

500

Alongside Eames and Dreyfuss conference rooms, this room in the GXD studio boasts the name of an infamous design leader and is adorned by their biography posted next to the door.

Beaudett

500

The founder of a the leading usability consulting firm and partner of Don Norman, he is known as the "guru of web page usability" 

Jakob Nielsen

500

BRK

Burke, Roberts, and Kimberline

500

Considered superior to ionization detection, This type of smoke detection technology uses a light source and a photocell to detect smoke

Photoelectric

500

Outdoor recreation in Minnesota creates $10 billion of state GDP and approximately this many jobs. 

[Acceptable +/- 500]

91,500 jobs

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