DesignBytes

The court considers: Are design patents so important that Samsung should give Apple 100% of its smartphone profits for copying a few of the iPhone's characteristics?

Pensa's Mark Prommel, IDSA, envisions a future where autonomy activates "third spaces" in our public and urban areas.

They’ve been labeled with terms like “conscientious” and “hardworking,” but Generation Z (young people born after millennials) are more than just diligent and mindful of the future.

Fast Company reports on Google's new phone v Apple's mainstay. Diana Budd asks, "Design theft? Or proof that, where form factor is concerned, the phone wars have ended?"

Many of your favorite family games have been around for decades or even centuries. Most were originally designed as something quite different from what they are today. For example, The Checkered Game of Life was the first—and actually the only—board game invented by Milton Bradley and was created as a "moral" game to teach children about the benefits of leading a virtuous life.

Keynote speaker Robert Brunner, IDSA, jokes when people ask him what it was like working with Apple founder Steve Jobs, he always says “I was between Jobs.”

#IDSAMedical panelist Danielle Schlosser, PhD, is featured in a Tech Times article about an app that could help people with schizophrenia. Read more and register for #IDSAMedical.

Filmmaker Gary Hustwit talks to Curbed on virtual reality, typomania and Olympic architecture.

If a golf cart and an electric scooter had a baby—and then that baby got a paint job in Willy Wonka’s candy factory—you might have something that approximates the Scoot Quad, Nissan’s experimental mobility vehicle.

IDSA Member Miso Kim is a new professor of experience design in the College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University. Meet the CMU PhD alum and former Cisco Systems UX designer.

Agent 007's vehicle of choice, Aston Martin, is expanding its product portfolio. James Bond can get decked out with Aston Martin boats, baby strollers, ornamental bowls and apartment designs!

Cole Haan unveiled a new collection of leather loafers and oxfords that are entirely made in the small town of Lewiston in Maine.

"Atlanta's creative scene is explosive." No wondering we're holding IDSA's next International Conference in Hotlanta! Read more.

And seven jobs that will grow, according to design leaders at Frog, Ideo, Artefact, Teague, and more.

A plan to build a Guggenheim museum on the Helsinki waterfront—like those in New York, Bilbao and Venice—appears close to collapse because of a political row.

Launched in 1978 by Mead Corp. (which was acquired by ACCO Brands in 2012), Trapper Keeper notebooks are brightly colored three-ring binders that hold folders called Trappers and close with a flap. From the start, they were an enormous success.

The Gear Guy catches up with "six powerhouses" who own, manage or design outdoor gear brands to cover you from head to toe, and more.

Have you ever heard the expression “Bangle Butt.” If not, Chris Bangle was the head designer at BMW for many years and designed the E65 7 Series and E60 5 Series.

If necessity is the mother of invention, then you need to follow the formula to find the need gap.

"This wouldn't have happened if Steve Jobs were around" is one of the most overused insults that even fans hurl at Apple CEO Cook when he does something they don't like.

"This city is an epicenter for making everything and anything." Crain's previews what's coming to Motor City August 17-20.

Many organizations recognize the importance of innovation, but they don’t know how to achieve it. The answer is design.