DesignBytes

Researchers and designers are using the Microsoft HoloLens—the IDEA 2017 Best in Show and Gold winner— to help people with disabilities.

University of Houston ID Director EunSook Kwon, IDSA, says her students’ designs have the potential to be real disruptors in the growing field of wearable technology.

Design is one of the most challenging, fast-moving and visionary fields to work in—and it can be financially rewarding, too. Here are seven of the highest-paid fields within the design industry.

Co-led by Brook Kennedy, IDSA, a group of design students created an award-winning web-based service to help isolated senior citizens.

Calvin Klein's chief creative officer, Raf Simons, had a very important message for the future fashion designers of the world: F*ck the system.

The Samsung v. Apple trial continues and both parties have released their witness lists. Apple's list includes Alan Ball, IDSA, as one of their expert witnesses. See what comes next.

The mastermind behind Google’s push into gadgets talks about where they’re going next.

Get inside the minds and the workspace of Charles and Ray Eames. At the new exhibit, open May 5–Sept. 13, 2018, The World of Charles and Ray Eames is making its US premiere at the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation.

For 2018, the theme for World Industrial Design Day (WIDD) is 'Design's impact on good health and well-being.'

The head of Subaru's design department discusses some of the wild designs planned for the future.

Designed by IDSA member Dan Kraemer, this IDEA 2016 Gold winner has launched a Kickstarter campaign.

Brook Kennedy, IDSA, is helping redesign the traditional fog net. He was part of an interdisciplinary research team at Virginia Tech that discovered parallel wire arrays could increase the water collection capacity of fog nets by threefold.

Bryce Rutter, PhD, IDSA, chair for this year’s event, addresses several questions regarding the medical design conference.

An interview with Dan Saffer, now a Twitter product designer, to see if we’re still on track for his predicted changes.

Recently, at Palm Springs Modernism Week, a trio of presentations covered the often obscured historical role that women have played in industrial design. Coordinated by Susan Skarsgard, design archivist at General Motors, these included a session with 87-year-old Gere Kavanaugh, who discussed her 60-year career.

Ayse Birsel, IDSA, launches a comprehensive online course to help you design life to the fullest!

Design leaders at Uber, Microsoft, Visa, IBM, Nordstrom, Hopelab, and ReachNow share their priorities for 2018–and how the role of design has shifted at their organizations.

As a collection, IDEA 2017 winners reflect a seriousness of design.

"The Harlem Globetrotters want us to build a trick shot machine, and we're going to do it before the semester ends." Kevin Shankwiler, IDSA, told his class.

Steve Jobs famously accused Microsoft of not having any taste, but over the last 5–6 years, Microsoft has been working hard at turning that image around.

Tucker Viemeister, FIDSA, says that it's collaboration that makes us humans fun in his interview with Project61.

This year’s Olympic medal design takes its inspiration from the Korean alphabet, as well as from traditional clothing and architecture.

Trying to succeed as a startup is hard enough. Getting a frivolous patent infringement demand letter in the mail can make it a whole lot harder.

Paul Hatch, IDSA, describes his design firm's expansion from ID to fields like UI and the IoT and explains why product nurturing will become more important than actual product design.