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Folks is a range of kitchen tools for the blind based on familiar cooking instruments, sensory feedback and tactile cues. The collection aims to allow those without sight to prepare food “just like common folks.”

What’s the most important life lesson a design student can learn? You could make a case for highly conceptual theories about inspiration or creative flow. But what students at the RIT experience in a senior seminar called Metaproject is a dose of market reality: It’s not always about big ideas, but about how you meet a need.

A Japanese design studio recently designed five new zippers for the manufacturer YKK that completely upend the fastener.

The chief design officer of Nike, discusses his dyslexia made him look at the world differently, why he doodles and how he manages 1,000 designers.

Drawing is taught as a form of visual thought, a method of investigating the world and generating new ideas or solving problems, even a mode of self-discovery.

A room filled with furniture experimentations and a display designed specifically for children are among the four zones making up a huge Eames retrospective at the Vitra Design Museum.

The story behind their design involves the advent of ergonomic design in the 1960s, a companywide vote and one very happy accident.

3M, an IDSA Ambassador, aligned their mission around collaborative creativity. The new studio will house a growing team of designers with diverse professional backgrounds, design capabilities and customer experience.

Color turns out to be a very good vector for figuring out how the human brain actually works.

More and more, medical schools are investing in curriculum and programming around the arts. Learn why.

Whether it’s improving mobility, a mechanism to speed things up or a development on something that already exists, it’s an example of ID benefiting the healthcare industry.

Business Insider's Chris Weller picks his favorites among the IDSA IDEA 2017 Kitchen and Accessories category winners. Do you agree?

“Criticism may be based on opinion, but that’s what makes it valuable. It gives us a taste of why people will eventually love or hate our work,” said Katie Dill, Airbnb's Head of Experience Design.

We asked eight prominent designers: What is the one principle you never compromise on?

See how an IDSA IDEA 2017 Gold winner "quadrupled its profits, with one big design idea."

The authors of Understanding Industrial Design: Principles for UX and Interaction Design think you should know how, where and why industrial and interaction design meet.

CNN features IDSA member Yves Behar in the first installment of a new series in which "some of the world's most visionary urban designers take you on a stroll."

At the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City, students encounter one of the most multi-disciplinary programs in design, covering industrial, interaction, graphic, service and social design.

Land Rover's Chief Design Officer, said: “Creating a positive emotional response is central to Land Rover’s modernist design philosophy. Every line and every feature has a purpose. It’s an approach defined by creative intelligence.”

Looks like Under Armour is going cross-country to take on Nike. The athletic wear giant based in Baltimore, MD is opening an Innovation Hub in Portland, OR. The new footwear design and development center includes a biomechanics lab and training center for athletes to test products.

The Museum of Arts and Design in New York opened "Sonic Arcade: Shaping Space with Sound" which explores the design world beyond standard visual and tactile stimulations.

Lisa Marks, S/IDSA, discovered during research for her thesis project at Parsons School of Design at The New School, is that the tradition of lace making “is in danger of dying out.”

The GameChanger is an IDEA featured finalist and is helping to change the sports lighting game in a unique way.

Product designer Patricia Moore, FIDSA was an inspiration for the book Empathy by Roman Krznaric.