Little Lockie USBee!

What’s the consensus, do you use external hard drives to keep your information safe, or do you trust the USB?

You Mouse Around Here Often?

This mouse is called the “G-Spot”.

Refrigerator That Grows Plants

So you lack the green thumb but still love fresh green vegetables. Facts like light, water, temperature, space, moisture, nutrition, supervision and knowledge are all gibberish to you.

Studio Volpi: solar powered lawn mower

Studio Volpi is a small design studio based just outside of Milan who have developed a lawn mower that is powered entirely by solar power.

Google Goes Simple and Meaningful with Their TV Ad

What a well-designed and choreographed TV ad that tells a meaningful, heartwarming and simple story by just showing us enough information and getting us to fill in the rest.

The KOR ONE Bottle Changes Behavior by Beautifying Water

In 2005 a new company named KOR Water founded by Eric Barnes and Paul Shustak handed their dream down to Sawhney’s team: It was an idea called “Water ReDesigned,” and their hope was that they could get people to stop using plastic water bottles by changing the way people drank water. By Alissa Walker

The Newspaper Tablet Concepts

The newspaper industry is falling over themselves in the fight to come up with a ever more impressive newspaper tablet. By Thomas Baekdal

Phoenix Island rewrites Sanya City’s future

Introducing the Sanya City of Hainan Province in China as an international tourism destination, Beijing-based MAD Architects has developed an island surrounded by the sea that will be connected by a 395-meter-long bridge with the main island. By Naresh Chauhan

Denmark to reduce energy consumption by 75 percent

Slated to be inaugurated in 2013, the new building for the University of Southern Denmark by Henning Larsen Architects provides a study and work environment to the students and employees. By Naresh Chauhan

Information is beautiful: 30 examples of creative infography

The perfect infography must synthetize complex information in a simple visual representation, which is not easy. The following examples take information architecture to another level by making it beautiful. By Mirko

15 Design Tips to Learn From Apple

There is no shortage of companies that follow popular design trends to appeal to a mass market. Much more rare is the breed of company that actually sets design trends. A company that occupies the top of the design food chain: Apple. By Joshua Johnson

The next step in interface design?

From pen and paper to typewriters we traveled onward to keyboards and input devices, and now further onward to touchscreens. But what's after the touchscreen? What new interface will Apple or its challengers be generating buzz about in five or ten years?

UI stencils

If you are a web designer you will probably find these UI Stencils very useful. By Jake Mize

50 Fresh Design Blogs You Should Be Reading

In this article, you will see a list of fresh and new design blogs worth subscribing to and reading. By Callum Chapman

Nexus One: The Story

If you are into mobiles, gadgets and all the latest tech going on out there (especially Android), it’s almost inevitable you didn’t notice these series of short films, that came out lately, documenting the making of Nexus One. By Elephant Squared

The Value of Design

The catalyst for this report on the value of design in business was the outpouring of reader comments that arrived after a bad-tempered blog post. By Helen Walters

Extreme Powersports Vehicle

Inspired by various extreme vehicles around, the extreme powersports concept vehicle has been designed to make it a perfect recreational vehicle.

Why Design Matters

Good business outcomes treat design as a holistic process that pulls in savvy marketing and research, as well as smart ideas, says IDEO's Diego Rodriguez.

Inner city bike

Looks rather catching, but it's not the most practical bike in the world. By Thomas Baekdal

Apple iPad - First impressions

Yes, it's a tablet. Yes, it looks like a really big iPhone. Yes, it's slim. Yes, it's super light. Yes, it has 10 hours of battery life. And yes it can be used as an ereader. It even comes with a new iBook store. By Thomas Baekdal

Bike

Bike design concepts by Ciprian Frunzeanu.

Mobile phone concepts "floater"

Wouldn’t it be fun if your cell phone sits up by itself (or tilt up a little) when put on the desk and starts moving when there’s a phone call or an incoming message?

WIFI wall radio

This is the concept for that. It plugs into the wall outlet and therefore is very easy to install and no counter space is invaded. By Aki Hirota

7 Ways Amazon Could Make the Next Kindle Awesome

Does Amazon have an exciting plan for Kindle 3? It's been keeping totally quiet about the next-gen e-reader, but rumors and leaks have started sprouting that suggest good things are on the way. But how could Kindle 3 be made awesome? By Kit Eaton

How to Create Creativity

‘Creative’ is the most popular adjective in the design world. Everybody wants to be a creative individual, find a creative solution, or discover a creative book. By Martina Skender

Chrome OS tablet

This page contains visual explorations of how a Chrome OS tablet UI might look in hardware. Don't overlook the mp4 file at the very end.

Boston Gets A Boa

Can the Dubai real-estate slump be blamed on ambitious projects that tried to recreate mini magical kingdoms? Don’t know, however that’s not stopped the designers from their creative thinking so let’s overview a challenging project that’s aimed for Boston residents. By Radhika Seth

Songdo Vision

See this video displaying images of future cities, or City 2.0.

A Master Plan Inspired By The World

With a commitment to sustainable design principles and the best practices of urban planning, Gale International and its partners have realized their vision for a new international city.

Cisco's Big Bet on New Songdo: Creating Cities From Scratch

The world is bracing for an influx of billions of new urbanites in the coming decades, and tech companies are rushing to build new green cities to house them. Are these companies creating a smarter metropolis -- or just making money? By Greg Lindsay

Amazing Computer Concept Designs You Wish Were Real

Concept designs are great and frustrating at the same time.

Why We Should Teach Design Early

A group of Austin designers is helping students at a local high school recreate their campus. By Rob Stokes

A Guide to Mobile Web Design Tips and Tricks

Having a mobile-optimized web site can really make your site stand apart from the pack. Even though smartphones like the iPhone and Google Android devices can display “the full web,” having a web page formatted for smaller screens and with features that can take advantage of a touch screen, geolocation, or address book functionality can make the mobile web browsing experience that much better. By Christina Warren

Apple's Proposed Multi-touch User Interface System

Looking at Apple's recent hardware and software patents in aggregate reveals a coordinated proposal for a multi-touch user interface. By Luke Wroblewski

The Cloud

More information here.

Fantastic Information Architecture and Data Visualization Resources

Information architecture can be a daunting subject for designers who’ve never tried it before. Also, creating successful infographics and visualizations takes skill and practice, along with some advance planning. By Cameron Chapman

Compenion concept shows possible 2015 laptop evolution

Some concepts for laptops in 2015. By Chris Davies

Worlds lightest cash register

The EPOS-lite. The EPOS-lite is a concept for the worlds lightest cash register. Its design is inspired by the Apple MacBook Air and iPhone.

Digit MP3 concept

No wires, just you, your DIGIT and your wireless.

Project Bee Helps, Doesn’t Sting

Project Bee is a talking, interactive GPS enabled navigation assistant intended for the visually impaired but there’s no reason why sighted people couldn’t benefit from it either. By Yanko Design

Tim Brown of IDEO & Designthinking: Extended Version

Sports Illustrated - Tablet Demo 1.5

Just How Innovative Is 3D Entertainment Technology?

There has been a sudden explosion of interest surrounding 3D entertainment technology -- driven in no small part by the phenomenal success of James Cameron's Avatar. By Dominic Basulto

The creative space

At Lehrer Architects, time spent pursuing art and design for personal development is an essential aspect of office life. By Edward Keegan

Disney’s Organization Chart Respects the Creative Process

@Issue Journal has shared a wonderful graphic visualization of Disney’s internal organization chart.

11 Design Strategies of the Next Decade

Olof Kolte on sustainable industrial design

Apple Is Pushing The Limits Of "Interactivity" And Going 3D

Apple is going to push the limits of “interactivity” and planning to go 3D. By Innovation Playground

HCI (Human-Computer Interactions) Is Fast Evolving To Deal With Emerging Computing Paradigms

Industry (aerospace, telecom, Ddefence, automotive, consumer electronics, etc.) has developed a growing interest in Human-Computer Interaction, as powerful and numerous features do not ensure a successful product at all without a clear usage understanding by their target users. By Innovation Playground

But What Does Meaningful Mean?

An illustrated guide for designing things that matter. By Joonkyung Shin

Re-Thinking Interaction Design

Our misguided focus on brand and user experience. By Jon Kolko

BlitzenBenz sports car

Inspired by the original Blitzen-Benz from 1909, designer George Yoo has developed a futuristic racing vehicle concept to take the Mercedes-Benz’s long lived racing heritage into the future. By Naresh Chauhan

Wear your computer around the wrist like a bracelet

Presented at CES 2010 under the Waveface system, the “Ultra” from ASUS is a wearable computer/cellphone concept that can be worn around the wrist like a bracelet, becoming a fashionable accessory for the trendy users. By Naresh Chauhan

25 User Experience Videos That Are Worth Your Time

Here are 25 videos and related resources on the topic of user experience (UX) by different presenters at different events. By Janko Jovanovic

Human Factors in the World’s First “Purpose-Built” Law Enforcement Vehicle

Look out Batman. Take a look at the new purpose-built law enforcement vehicles that will appear in 2012. By The Human Factors.

Harley Davidson Circa 2020

Check out this bike! By Yanko Design

The Quest for Real Unique Police Bikes

Unique design, 3D branding of the bike for the Police. By Yanko Design

cannon design: richmond olympic oval

The Vancouver 2010 Olympics are fast approaching, but many of the event venues are already completed, including the Richmond Olympic oval by cannon design. The six-acre building sits on the Fraser river near Vancouver and demonstrates the sustainability standards for the games.

10 Futuristic Cell Phone Concepts

Collection of the most creative and interesting cell phone concepts.

MyFord Touch In-Car Interface

At CES, Ford announced their radically revised new instrument panels for driving in a digital world. Completely integrating the car's interface with other devices and services, the brand will introduce the system, called MyFord, not just in their high-end vehicles but across the line starting with 2011 models.

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

Study the planning/pictures of the Apple store in New York by the architect firm.

Apple Store - Glass Staircases

Apples covers all angles of design...even the stairs in it's retail stores.

Apple Plans To Move Palo Alto Store

Architectural documents filed with the Palo Alto (N. Calif.) planning agency reveal that Apple intends to move its current retail store on University Avenue to a new, larger space that will include a skylight and indoor trees.

Oh So Sleek Faucets!

Faucets are getting trendier and sleeker by the day. By Yanko Design

Rafael Viñoly's Designer Rx for Hospitals

How do you design a building hosting so many social interactions and so much technological change? By Cliff Kuang

Neri Oxman: On Designing Form

Architect Neri Oxman is the founder of MATERIALECOLOGY, an interdisciplinary design initiative expanding the boundaries of computational form-generation and material engineering. Named one of Fast Company's "100 Most Creative People in Business," Oxman investigates the material and performance of nature in an effort to define form itself.
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I Daresay… SNAP!

This concept vehicle right here is called the “SNAP.”

Lights In Parts Only

The LED EcoBulb is quite easygoing; it illuminates only those parts of the rooms as required.