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CNN reports, a Swiss museum—soon to travel stateside with a pop-up exhibit—teaches us what we can learn from "history's worst designs."

Once a year, what's touted as the world’s largest independent design consultancy, sends a little black book to a select few fans. See why.

The Apple vs. Qualcomm saga continues as Apple responds to recent actions by Qualcomm to attempt to enforce its standing contracts regarding the use of its IP in iPhone devices.

Jeff Wordham of Doblin, Deloitte Consulting LLP’s innovation practice, shares his perspective on how a different approach to human-centered design is growing in importance in today’s business environment.

As her current boss Rick Osterloh, Google’s SVP Hardware, explains, “Dorothy Parker once said, ‘Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.’ That, in a nutshell, is Ivy (Ross).”

It's not enough to be the NBA's top draft pick. 19-year-old Markelle Fultz is making shoes out of... well, what else?

CIA's Engaged Practice (EP) coursework—in place for several years but a graduation requirement in 2016—take students off campus and into the field to engage in real-world projects through their art.

This month marks 10 years since Apple launched the first iPhone, a device that would fundamentally transform how we interact with technology, culture, and each other. Ahead of that anniversary, Motherboard editor Brian Merchant embarked on an investigation to uncover the iPhone’s untold origin. The One Device: The secret history of the iPhone, out on June 20th, traces that journey from Kenyan mines to Chinese factories all the way to One Infinite Loop. The following excerpt has been lightly condensed and edited by The Verge.

Parsons School of Design students have met an AARP challenge to create wearable solutions for health issues. See what they've designed.

“Our devices are inserting themselves into our moments all of the time. They’re kind of like this person in the room with us all the time, and that person is the most socially awkward friend you’ve ever had and can’t pick up on the social cues.”

Apple's chief design officer, who was honored with IDSA's Personal Recognition Award in 2013, has another gig.

The New York Times credits Jim Hackett with turning office furniture maker Steelcase into "one of America’s most admired companies." Now, can he drive Ford Motor Company into the future as its new CEO?

Zero Waste Europe’s People’s Design Lab project: nominate badly designed products and vote for their “most hated” products to be improved or phased out.

Two on this list of famous CEOs studied product design. (And note how many are Harvard dropouts.)

Want to understand the Future of design? Upgrade your summer beach reading with these tomes about the future of cities, AI, big data and more.

“Just like women, we wanted to show that our iconic bottle can come in all shapes and sizes, too,” Dove said. Just hours after the ad campaign aired so did the backlash.

Later this year, Apple launches the next iPhone, 10 years after the first one was unveiled. What will it be named? Forbes finds the frontrunners.

"In hindsight I had some odd behaviors," Airbnb founder and RISD industrial design alum Brian Chesky tells Entrepreneur. "All the things I grew up with I tried to redesign."

At the Pan Am Experience, $300 will take you on a trip back in time with a six-course meal and caviar. Buckle up.

Look what NASA has come up with now. From serving as insulation to an antenna and more, a new space fabric is the result of what some call "4D" printing.

Apple quietly made one of its coolest hires ever. The company recently brought on Steven Keating, the MIT doctoral student who made a 3D printout of his own brain after he was diagnosed with a tumor.

Can products and services influence, facilitate, or foster customer happiness? And if so, can we then design for happiness?

Among the many topics he teaches at ArtCenter is a concept he calls “multiple domain synergy” which is about moving ideas from one company or industry to another.

The NJIT’s Idea Factory and Material Dynamics Lab is combining seed bombs—balls of organic matter that protect and help seeds packed within them grow—with hydrogel granulates, sucking in moisture and swelling to up to 400 times their own weight in water.