DesignBytes

'Tis the season to travel! From ping pong and board games, to innovative workspaces and pet friendly attitudes, the hotel lobbies of today are not just for checking in. See how design plays a role.

IDSA SF's Linda Jiang's Essential phone design is among Bloomberg's Best Gadgets of 2017. "For a combination of performance, price and stunning industrial design, nobody came close to the Essential." See why, and what other products make the cut.

According to research by Kiersten Muenchinger, IDSA, head of product design at the University of Oregon in Eugene, there are four emotional drivers of sustainability.

A design studio is breathing new life into old computer parts. See how.

New research finds 3D printing of human tissue scaffolds has "tremendous potential" for regrowing bone.

"I went to the first ever [IDSA] Women in Design Summit last May. This was a tremendous place to meet other women in the field and I left feeling so inspired and connected. It made me realize that I was not alone in the struggles, nor are you—there's a tremendous community of support out there," Nichole Rouillac, IDSA, tells Forbes magazine.

As IDSA gets ready to kick off its Student Merit Awards 2018 competition, ApplianceDesign and Lou Lenzi, FIDSA, take a closer look at the 2017 winners who set a new record.

Check out what's happening in these design-minded destinations—from Paris to Singapore—early in the New Year.

Microsoft, a winner of multiple IDEA Gold awards, has been dropping hints that the ultimate mobile is still in works, while whenever they were asked, the company executives have declined to comment.

Well-known Italian food company Barilla has been busy developing its own pasta 3D printer, and it even held a contest with a goal of creating fun new shapes of pasta using 3D printing technologies.

Fast Company reports CES, the biggest tech convention in the world, is taking heat for the lack of female speakers in recent years.

Trademark applications jumped by 16.4% to about seven million, and worldwide industrial design applications grew by 10.4% to almost one million—both driven by growth in China.

Mixed reality combines VR, AR and AI to blend the digital world with the physical. ID and other industries are currently adopting MR to revolutionize their business processes.

Worldwide spending on AR and VR is forecast to reach $17.8 billion in 2018, "There is currently a huge appetite from companies that see tremendous potential in the technology—from product design to retail sales to employee training,"

Jony Ive's work has become the seeds of a tech revolution that is rapidly changing our lives.

An IDEA 2017 winner takes another step into the workplace wellness space.

Enclosed suites with sliding doors and Mercedes-Benz style interiors reportedly inspired by NASA technology are among the new “game changing” designs launched by Emirates Airlines.

Car Design Archives unearthed images in the Raymond Loewy, FIDSA, archives of a "wonderfully half-assed redesign" of the iconic Volkswagen Beetle.

Lovers of classic cars will have the opportunity to get close-up views of some of the most revered automobiles ever built at the Academy of Art University exhibit.

An ID student spent some time creating what he calls the Taptop, an off-the-wall vision of what a Mac Mini in the future could look like.

Car design is about compromise. But what happens when the process is distilled down to the pursuit of a single objective: being faster than anything else?

After nearly losing his mother to breast cancer, a young man invented a bra that can serve as an early warning tracker for symptoms of breast cancer.

A fifth-­generation member of the family behind Moscot doubles down on new designs.

Dropbox announced a couple of products that make it easier for Autodesk users to access and share large design files.