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New ASU Center Mimics Nature to Create Cutting-Edge Technology

Prasad Boradkar, ID professor at The Design School in ASU’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, works with a new batch of students who develop innovative, sustainable products with positive social impact using principles of biomimicry.
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The Shape
of Things
to Come

“So much of our manufactured environment testifies to carelessness,” Jonathan Ive says. Things are “developed to be different, not better.”
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Business Is About People, Not Technology or Profit

“Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world—as in being able to remake ourselves.”—Mahatma Gandhi
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Making
His
Mark

Most boys want to become star athletes when they grow up; rather fewer want to become star designers.
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Happy Meals

SF public-schools estimate 57% of students who qualified for free or reduced-price meals actually took advantage of them. After spending a couple of months with the children, IDEO’s team found uninviting lunchrooms as its central challenge.
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Apple Car?

Cupertino’s Got the Design Talent to Transform Another Industry
As rumors that Apple is making a self-driving car rev up, a peek under the hood of the company’s famed Industrial Design studio reveals a crew of talented automobile designers.
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Fitting to the T

Decades ago, sage advice for college students may have sounded something like this: choose a career, find a job, and stick with it. But those days are long gone.
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Does Anyone Really Want a Smartwatch?

Asking about the state of the smartwatch market makes a big assumption—that there actually is a smartwatch market. This is a much bigger leap than you might think.
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Designers & Investing in Innovation

Design-thinking goes deeper than diagnosing problems in a company. It is a means of generating ideas.
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Iconic Series 7 Chair Turns 60

Arne Jacobsen did for architecture and industrial design what Hans Christian Andersen did for fairy tales.
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‘Made in China’

The “Made in China” label is a cut and dried requirement for anything manufactured in China, but it’s also loaded with implied connotations.
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How To Streamline Creative Dialogue

"If I had an hour to solve a problem, I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions."—Albert Einstein
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Next Frontier for Surgical Innovation

A new report from Cambridge Consultants indicated that India and China present the largest emerging market growth opportunity for the medical device industry.
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Work Longer Than You Think

Medical advancements and workplace-design innovations at growing numbers of employers are making it easier to work into your 60s and 70s, albeit not for everyone.
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A Card Game To Help Companies Define Their Brand

Now on Kickstarter, the Brand Deck is a simple card game that companies can play to help give them clarity on what they really are.
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In a New Marketing World, the Product Is the Message

Dan Formosa reminds us that the Internet age has returned us to a time when product is the heart of a brand.
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What Human-Centered Design Teaches Us About Making Cities Car-Optional

Here's a bold question—what if there were no need for cars in the world’s biggest cities?
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The Mysterious, Murky Story Behind Soy-Sauce Packets

How Chinese takeout, a Jewish businessman from the Bronx and NASA-approved packaging have shaped the 50-year reign of a well-loved American condiment.
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Print Your Cellphone at Home

British start-up OwnFone launches Kickstarter campaign that offers users the chance to 3D print their own cellphone—and even draw its design by hand.
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UPenn Students Learn a Lesson from Industry

Design education is a crucial topic these days as the boundaries of product design shift to encompass an increasing set of skills and experiences.
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A Beautiful Epilepsy Tracker

Wearables are getting smarter. The wearables coming out of 2015 are going to be considerably more powerful. So powerful, in fact, that they might save lives.
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Designing for the Elderly

Ways Older People Use Digital Technology Differently
Consider this: By 2030, appx. 19% of people in the US will be over 65. Coincidentally, it happens to be about the same number of people in the US who own an iPhone today.
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Why Designers Need to Step Outside Design

It's easy to get trapped in a design clique—but spare a thought for folks outside the bubble, and your work will be all the better for it.
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The London Underline?

It's been suggested that London turn its underground tunnels into cycle paths, connecting parts of the city while reducing traffic above ground and increasing cyclist safety.
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Cooper Hewitt Releases a Free Font Designed by Masters

The Cooper Hewit Smithsonian Design Museum's new font and identity are designed by Pentagram (who also designed the IDSA logo).
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Swatch to Compete Against Apple Watch

Swatch CEO Nick Hayek is ready to go head-to-head with Apple Inc., which has scheduled its smartwatch introduction for April 2015.
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IDEA Winner Makes iPad Drawing Set Free

The iPad app, Paper, now comes bundled with the full set of drawing tools. The Pencil packaging received an IDEA 2014 Gold and the Pencil received a Silver.
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The Design Genius of the Frisbee

Yes, the frisbee.
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4 Tips On Creativity from the Creator Of Calvin & Hobbes
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Human-Centered Approach to Data-Driven Design

Arianna McClain, a senior hybrid design researcher, discusses storytelling through data and the human-centered, data-driven design approach at IDEO in this podcast.
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Kickstarter in the Classroom

University of Illinois at Chicago's new Entrepreneurial Product Development class, taught by Craighton Berman, helps students navigate Kickstarter.
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Smart Design Gives Health a Nudge

A new concept app from Smart Design aims to improve the health of diabetics, a segment for whom weight loss can be a matter of life and death.
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“Fail often so you can succeed sooner.”

–Tom Kelley, Partner, IDEO
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Purdue Student Wins with Essay Seating

National Office Furniture hosts a yearly competition for Purdue ID students to create a furniture solution that solves a specific challenge—Essay Seating is this year's winner.
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Literal 3D Printing

3D-printed texts by Hongtao Zhou with some characters more extruded than others creating some interesting cityscapes in part of the series.
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The Art of Building Globes

The art of making artisanal globes is a craft that is extremely difficult. Each component of the globe is constructed by hand, from casting the spheres to hand painting the illustrations.
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The Office Cubicle: From Commercial Flop to Best-Selling Design Classic

The office cubicle turns 50 years old this year. Andrew Shanahan investigates the history of the system that revolutionized office design and which, after falling out of favor, is now being re-evaluated.
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The Notion of Original Ideas

The topic is full of wonder, conflict, excitement and subjectivity. For many, originality means drawing inspiration from a variety of sources to create a new idea.
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Five Characteristics of an Innovation

Design teams that account for both usability and how people adopt innovation stand a much greater chance of having users accept and use their products.
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Furniture & Engagement

“Tell me if my students are engaged.” Back-in-the-day when students wedged themselves into what we called the one-armed bandit, we rarely considered how the actual furniture in the room might help.
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Gergely Boganyi's Concert Piano Redesign

Professional pianist Gergely Bogányi decided, to get the sound he wanted, he'd have to custom design a piano, both inside and out. Using a team of designers, engineers, craftsmen and music technicians, ten years and 8,000 team-hours later, they produced the Bogányi Piano.
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48 Years of Scissor Improvement

Fiskars has been making new kinds of orange-handled scissors since 1967, and after thousands of variations, it's not out of ideas yet.
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10 Principles for Good Design

As good design cannot be measured in a finite way Dieter Rams set about expressing the ten most important principles for what he considered was good design.
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What Matters Now

Design is in flux. Once expected to produce chairs, lamps, logos and letterheads, today designers' work is often less visible. WIRED asked nine top designers to talk about their craft and what it means today.
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Where Millennials Learn About Money

With IDEO'S help, the Society of Grownups wants to teach young professionals how to handle their cash. But first: the braised beef course.
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If Samsung Buys BlackBerry

Despite denials from both companies, it appears Samsung wants BlackBerry. Part of the appeal—BlackBerry’s medical offering. What does this mean mean for healthcare?
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Marsala

Much like the fortified wine that gives Marsala its name, this tasteful hue embodies the satisfying richness of a fulfilling meal while its grounding red-brown roots emanate a sophisticated, natural earthiness.
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Weirdest Design Yet for Project Ara

Russian design firm Lapka thinks everyone behind Project Ara may be missing the point; stating everything about Project Ara is five years ahead of the curve...well, except their design. Sleek and subtle? Not at all. This thing has vents. Instead, Lapka’s founder Vadik Marmeladov says his firm was inspired by the brash fashions of high-end sneakers—a collection of various fabrics and foams that assemble into a design forward accessory. They think the design should be a visual and cultural milestone.
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Ralph Lauren Forced to Destroy Its Converse Ripoffs

Converse sued 32 companies for trademark infringement. Now, Ralph Lauren has entered a settlement agreement with Converse.
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Leatherman Tread Thinks Outside the Box

You may not be able to take a multi-tool everywhere with you but you can take a bracelet. It's this idea that lead to Leatherman's latest multi-funtional design.
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