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Making football safer may not only be about the equipment players wear. At Detroit’s Viconic Sporting, researchers are developing a layer meant to be installed under synthetic turf to make fields safer for players.

Pantone announced its Color of the Year selection for 2016: PANTONE 15-3919 Serenity AND PANTONE 13-1520 Rose Quartz.

Kendall Industrial Design professor Tom Edwards said Taylor Petroelje is the first one of his students to get a job as a designer in the eyewear industry.

The National Museum of Women in the Arts, “Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft, and Design, Midcentury and Today” forges a connection among today's female designers and those in the mid-20th century.

With the recent launch of the long awaited Apple Watch we have discovered a big improvement potential for the existing Apple leather straps.

After encouraging their students to rethink the pencil from the ground up, Or and Tomer's class presented 18 reinterpreted pencils, each with a new function, shape, or meaning.

‘Tis the holiday season, and this year the Internet offers a fascinating new aspect to holiday giving, through direct person-to-person support for things that you are passionate about.

Karim Rashid lets Design Milk into his workspace to get a sense of not only where he works, but his process.

Carnegie Museum of Art unveils the untold story of a great American designer with "Silver to Steel: The Modern Designs of Peter Muller-Munk."

Strip away the erotic, and vibrators are, fundamentally, just another gadget—and a rather simple one at that. Why, at such a great time for tech, do vibrators lag behind?

Do you agree it's possible?

“I really do think that Apple did lose its way and none of the comments have made me change my opinion whatsoever,” said Don Norman.

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?