Category Design (general)
Think NewB+NewD – Understanding the new Zollverein School
Design for patient safety
Designing for the base of the pyramid
Design for the Base of the Pyramid is an initiative by the IIT Institute of Design “to develop human-centered design strategies and concepts for new products, services and businesses capable of generating sustainable economic improvement in the lives of people…
Design revelations from Shanghai [Business Week]
For the last 10 years, the state of mainstream design in China has approximated the first stage of design in the U.S., writes Patrick Whitney in a Business Week column. Consumers in the emerging mass market are gravitating toward products…
Improve usability for older users
Lifestyle design: a new profession
Palm got it right ten years ago. So why are we still suffering?
New design research wiki site
Going more public: situated display design in a care setting through co-realisation
Gadgets and the consequences of their design
Design Studies journal has user focus
Going off the beaten path for new design ideas [The New York Times]
Designing for Stanford’s d-school
Jim Wicks on weaving design into Motorola’s fabric
Design for social justice
Creativity, design and business at Kellogg School of Management
Need proof that the business world is playing catch-up in regards to creativity, innovation and design? The prestigious Kellogg School of Management is hosting a four-day learning session on managing product design and development this month. Here’s the program content:…
Tomorrow’s world: testing the ultimate high tech house [Financial Times]
The Financial Times reports on Project:LIFE, a unique research project by David Wilson Homes and the University of Nottingham’s School of the Built Environment, to understand how the design of the home affects how we live together and to enable…
Interviews with Don Norman and Patrick Baudisch in Stanford d.school magazine
The second issue of Ambidextrous Magazine, a project of the Stanford d.school, features interviews with Don Norman and Patrick Baudisch. In a long interview with Bjoern Hartmann, Don Norman reveals that he is working on a new book with the…
Michigan Governor talks design and innovation [Business Week]
Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm tells Corporate Design Foundation Chairman Peter Lawrence about her plan to make the state the innovation capital of the U.S. At the very start of the interview, she outlines a user-centred vision of design: “To me,…