Have you ever thought about how and why something was designed? Who was considered a “stakeholder” for the design? And what biases are baked within the process of designing something? These are some ...

Design inspiration plays a practical role in daily work. Designers frequently revisit sites of reference when there is a lack ...

Medical device design and development is a process that helps to ensure devices that go to market are safe, effective, marketable, and profitable. The process is a blueprint of the phases needed to ...

When building one-off projects, it’s common to draw up a plan on a sheet of paper or in CAD, or even wing it and hope for the best outcome without any formal plans. Each of these design philosophies ...

Have you ever found yourself frustrated with an app that just doesn’t seem to “get” what you need? Maybe the search function feels clunky, or the interface is so cluttered that finding what you’re ...

Katie Atwater tells how engaging residents and neighbors early in the design process for a new firehouse strengthened bonds ...

An approach that promised to democratize design may have done the opposite. When Kyle Cornforth first walked into IDEO’s San Francisco offices in 2011, she felt she had entered a whole new world. At ...