DesignBytes

NASA design played a lifesaving role in the rescue of "The 33" Chilean trapped miners.

IDSA Members Chris Ross and Don Norman address the need for design education in the startup community. Find out about the challenge posed to entrepreneurs, designers and design schools.

Sometimes described as “the guy Steve Jobs couldn’t hire,” Yves Béhar is behind a number of products that deploy technology to radically redefine how we live.

It’s the bottle design introduced by the company one hundred years ago—the patent was dated November 16, 1915. The contour bottle has slim, elegant curves, and vertical grooves inspired by illustrations the industrial designers at the Root Glass Company in Terre Haute, Indiana, found in a reference book.

Washington wants to overhaul its tech scene and bring it into the 21st century—and it's recruiting the country's top tech talent to do it, including expertise in product design and user experience.

It took a creative collaboration to produce a “totally new,” user-friendly product concept for Bayer-branded aspirin in the form of an unusual, shamrock-shaped strip pack for four single tablets.

"The revolution in product design that has refreshed, reimagined and simplified nearly every consumer product category, has bypassed general aviation." Until now.

For years, Apple followed user-centered design principles. Then something went wrong.

Woodworking Network recalls an interview with the late Henry Glass, FIDSA about his iconic design, the 75 year old hairpin leg. Glass, who designed automobiles, houses and more, said he was most proud of the hairpin leg.

The truth is, you don’t need to be a font savant, or be a Creative Cloud wizard, or even have a degree in design in order to be a highly effective product designer.

American innovators are known the world over for their design capabilities. Our laws and policies covering design patents play an important role in promoting and protecting that investment. But do they do enough?

Detroit sculptor Shannon Goff might have topped herself with her most recent full-scale cardboard replica project, Miles to Empty.

Mike Krieger, who co-founded Instagram, offers his advice on how to be successful in design. Here are four things to remember for any student of product design.

Product design processes are meant to be cyclical. But what if you could speed up each phase for better results and more frequent feedback? This is the thinking behind design sprints, a fast process for yielding more iterations in less time.

The NYC subway signage is considered iconic. Black and white signs with Helvetica showing just the information subway riders need at the points they need it and nothing more.

"We’re not going to be a generalized design consulting firm," John Barratt explains. "We’re going to be specialized in this domain at an intersection of travel and technology."

Over the last century, no city has made a greater contribution to American automotive design than Los Angeles, in particular its suburb of Pasadena.

Groupe Renault is marking the 50th anniversary of the death of Le Corbusier by creating a 21st century car inspired by the architect’s modernist principles and theories.

Vivi, designed by Method, is a head-mounted display (HMD) product tailored for surgeons, nurses and paramedics, which allows them to more easily and effectively monitor a patient’s vital signs while they are working.

Chinese-owned auto manufacturer The London Taxi Company has unveiled the glass-roofed hybrid TX5 prototype that is set to be used as the UK capital's latest black cab. The hybrid TX5 replaces the black cab's usual diesel engine, instead running on a batter-powered electric system with a four-cylinder petrol engine that kicks in once this has been drained. The creation of the TX5 was overseen by British designers Pete Horbury – former chief designer at Volvo and head of design at Ford in Detroit – and David Ancona, another former Volvo chief designer.

Apple has released one of the first emoji dedicated to a good cause (created by the Ad Council), and it could make a huge difference in the lives of bullied children and teens.

Opinion: as London's Barbican gallery launches a major retrospective on Modernist designers Charles and Ray Eames, one wonders whether it matters that the Eames name has taken on a life of its own.

Backed by frogVentures, Voyomotive is tackling the burgeoning connected-car space.

What features might you design into a phone that didn't have to pass Apple or Samsung's strict internal guidelines?