Fail early and fail often. I use that phrase over and over again in teaching the design process. Borrowed from the world of computer programming, it expresses the urgency of getting iterations out into the world early in the process ...READ»
Yusef Muhammed, the co-designer the 2009 Dyson Award-winning firefighting kitchen faucet, discusses the challenges it meets and the concepts his team discarded.READ»
Designer Dustin Curtis was so disgusted with the American Airlines Web site that he redesigned it, and posted the results as an open letter to the company. Guess what? One of AA's designers responded with a long ...READ»
Just recently, the storied German furniture company Vitra unveiled a deceptively simple chair by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, two masters of comtemporary design. A simple, plastic molded bucket seat it nonetheless had a fit and ...READ»