DesignBytes

Can a table save money? French industrial designers think so. Pull up a chair and find out how.

Google Glass may be back. Is the team working on the futuristic, head-mounted computer now focused on developing new smart eyewear and other related products? You may be surprised where clues were found.

Design Sprints bring clarity to your roadmap to kickstart and obtain initial validation for product design work.

Competition challenged Appalachian State University students to design chairs inspired by their personal interpretation of regionalism in North Carolina.

Riding Onewheel, the new electric board from snowboarder-turned-IDEO-designer Kyle Doerksen, gets one pretty close to the feeling of flying on a board. Doerksen hired a couple of engineers and came up with a single-tire, skateboard-sized electric vehicle that turns like a snowboard and handles like, well, a hoverboard.

Flightbeat is a concept that uses heart rate sensors embedded in an aircraft seat to discretely monitor the well-being of passengers and display passenger moods at-a-glance through a connected app.

MIT's course on Toy Product Design demonstrates a wide array of imaginative devices. With classes that center on semester-long design projects, surprising, clever and unexpected ideas can always be expected.

An ever-expanding buffet of knobs, switches and buttons, were supported by the mesmerizing glow of dials and readouts that made the state of one’s listening situation known with just a glance. The combination of tactile and visual feedback was a thing of beauty then, and still is today—especially in the context of the Jony Ive era, where aesthetic restraint has become marching orders for all.

BMW's Benoit Jacob explains that after nearly a century of development cars have evolved into an almost "perfect" form, which has made it more difficult for manufacturers to push the boundaries and create distinct models. In no small part hybrid and electric technologies are changing the way cars are designed after decades of stagnation.

In education, games, tech, fashion, food, footwear, furniture—design makes dollars and sense. See who shines in 2015 when it comes to the business of creativity.

Dezeen.com picks 10 designers not to miss at New York City's Sight Unseen Offsite exhibition, which opens May 15, coinciding with NYC Design Week.

"While women were largely unwelcome in architecture and industrial design, male architects and manufacturers found they couldn't live without them," Alexandra Lange opines in Dezeen.

A look at how best to prepare yourself and your work for presentation.

Sony has just unveiled the LED Light Bulb Speaker, which is basically exactly what it sounds like—an LED light bulb which doubles as a Bluetooth speaker.

Samsung shipped 20,000 milling machines to Vietnam to match the iPhone's metal.

A new book from IDEO.org is a 'crib sheet' for better social innovation. Get your copy: www.designkit.org/resources/1/.

An ID student is trying to set straight one of the largest subway systems in the world. Will MTA get the hints?

Canadian industrial design students are hoping their creation will make a difference in earthquake-ravaged Nepal and other disaster zones.

Legendary cyclist Greg LeMond and his son race toward a new calling in product design.

A US biotech startup has debuted a desktop 3D printer for biomaterials. It has created, among other things, a replica of Vincent Van Gogh’s ear.

It may seem novel novel to consumer product design now, but wearable technology is not a totally new concept.

A savvy designer should treat his or her career like a design problem. Here's how.

A Big Three automaker is putting STEM on the fast track by creating four new academies in Detroit focused on bringing 1,400 students up to speed on 21st century careers. Ford plans to serve 7,000 students nationwide by 2020.

What if Jony Ive gave design tips to JJ Abrams for the new droids? The answer is a clever mashup of Star Wars and Apple designs with extreme attention to detail.