How to Build a Better Vital Signs Monitor

By bringing a patient’s vital signs into one system, the EVD helps doctors and nurses to better capture patient information and send it wirelessly to an electronic medical record. By Sars Munday

The Future of Information: Touchscreens EVERYWHERE!

Digital interfaces are going big -- so big pretty soon we might not be able to distinguish between what's real and what's fake, whether we're talking about ads on the street or the reflection in the mirror. By Suzanne Labarre

Can Architecture Help the Elderly Age Gracefully?

Matthias Hollwich thinks so, and he's set up a new program at the University of Pennsylvania to explore how. By Jenara Nerenberg

Women's Prosthetic Limbs as Fashion Accessories

We live in in the post-human world augured by William Gibson. Need proof? Look at all the freakish examples of plastic surgery on TV. Does Heidi Montag look human to you? By Suzanne Labarre

A Magical, Gestural Remote

As TV content blends into the Web, we'll probably need a remote as intuitive -- and button free -- as this one. By Suzanne Labarre

Google Equates "Design" With Endless Testing. They're Wrong

Google Instant is the (unholy) product of Google's infamous design process. By Cliff Kuang

Never ending pencil

To cut a long story short, what we have here is a simple writing tool called the Continuous Pencil, which can be used till the very end. By Yanko Design

For The Apple Geek Of The Day!

This concept is going to bring smiles to many iGeeks (me included) and keep us lusting for it to become a reality! By Yanko Design

Clever Crosswalk Squashes Jaywalking

Jaywalking: Everyone does it, so you might as well legalize it. But is there any way to make it less dangerous? By Suzanne Labarre

A Brilliant Touchpad Mouse

Once again, a darling of industrial design gets down and dirty. By Suzanne Labarre

Volkswagen Moog

A vehicle inspired by electronic music which suggests the visual and audible language our electric vehicles might have in the near future. By Klaud Wasiak

Astrum 2010 - concept car

Basically the idea was coming up with a new concept with different features and styles, the car comes in 2 colors, a dark grey and off-white color. The intention was for it to look like a sport car yet something fierce and big/strong at the same time. By Industrial Design

Award: Chicago Central Area Decarbonization Plan

By now, most architects realize that in order to mitigate global warming, we need not only build more efficient new buildings, but also retrofit the existing building stock so that it meets modern standards of efficiency. By Katie Gerfen

Tutorial: Create a Vector Infographic Poster

Have you ever wondered how to create an infographic? By Chris

30 Modern Corporate Logo Designs

Good company logos last for many years, great company logos last for a life time. By Adam Arbolino

7 insights to make you a great designer

Here are some tips to reignite your inspiration whenever you have a ‘designer’s moment’. By Sheena Mckinnon

12 Logo Design Mistakes To Avoid

One of the easiest ways to distinguish a company is by having a unique and memorable logo; however, creating a unique and memorable logo is not as easy as it sounds. By Just Creative Design

Electric Rickshaw

Developed for the “Peugeot Concours Design” competition, the “Electric Rickshaw” by Mexican designer Joao Lueiro is an urban mobility vehicle to commute safely on cramped city roads. By Naresh Chauhan

Designing for the iPad

Are we designing desktop programs, web sites or something entirely new? By iA

Mitsubishi i-MiEV Electric Car

Review of a sleeper among the new generation of electric vehicles. By Phil Patton

Understanding design for emotion models

With all the different models out there used to describe designing for emotion, it can be difficult to understand how to apply any individual model, or understand how all the models relate to each other. By Affective Design

A lovely take on the Product Manual (hint: make it interactive)

One could argue that “No Manual” needed is the pinnacle of product design but if you’re going to make a “manual” you could do far worse than this.

Using Multiple Data Sources and Insights to Aid Design

Often when we think of using data to influence our designs, we think of “data” in a very narrow way. By Catriona Cornett

Party hard ay Digital Summer and Meet Up with Yanko Design

Mark August 25th on your calendar and set it as a date to party hard with Yanko Design!

The making of Undercover UX Design

We appropriated the tools of our trade: personas, content analysis, user feedback and deep iteration—but it was trial and error that finally unearthed the process that worked for us. By Cennydd Bowles

Self Service Banking

Driven by the desire to make self-service banking more intuitive, BBVA and IDEO re-designed the ATM from the ground up. Three principles guided our team along the way: simple, human, and flexible. By IDEO

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Say Something

Jason Steven's 'Say Something' project engages designers to help kids aspire.

The Phenomenon of Synthesis

At TEDXCreativeCoast, frog Associate Creative Director and Director of the Austin Center for Design Jon Kolko takes us on a designer's romp through reframing, rethinking, and generating creative ideas, grounding it with an academic understanding of the methodologies used by innovative designers. Jon's presentation draws from his vast experience in product innovation at frog to bring the principles of synthesis to us all.

Creativity Here & Now

Something people with creative jobs always struggle with, myself included, is that creativity often likes to take its sweet damned time. By David Sherwin

BMW's Starting a New Eco-Brand. What Gives?

What's behind the new name for BMW's forthcoming electric car? By Suzanne Labarre

Designers: Are Your Products Among the Decade's Best?

Which designs, over the past ten years, have had the biggest business and social impact? The iPhone? The Prius? The Kindle? By Linda Tischler

Create Design Magic on Demand

Is it possible to create design magic on a regular basis? Or do great design ideas arrive from the heavens? By Linda Tischler

iPad vs. iPhone: A user experience study

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iPhone 4 CAD drawings

CAD drawings of the iPhone 4. By Core 77

EV charging stations designed by lowercase-f design firms

Frogdesign has designed the Blink, an EV charging station that comes in both commercial and residential flavors. By Core 77

Apple introduces new input device

Decades ago Apple pioneered mass-uptake of the mouse, and now they're out to break new ground with a new type of input device: The Magic Trackpad By Core77

Koolhaus faucet monitors your water consumption

Daniel Dobrogorsky's Koolhaus concept is a faucet that lets you know how much water you're using--not just from the Koolhaus itself, but throughout the entire bathroom, even dividing the bath tap and shower tap into separate categories. By Core77

Beta workplace system

In office furniture design we've seen tons of would-be successors to the cubicle, but nothing's really taken root yet. By Core77

Heelys uses Eastman copolyester for new product category

Called the Nano Inline Footboard, the detachable device is not quite a skateboard, not quite a scooter, not quite inline skates. By Core77

The Strategic Arc of Interaction Design

Designers of interactions have the opportunity to move their purview beyond the shallow plane of interaction into the design of systems, organisational capability and culture; to tackle very complex problems and affect profound and lasting change. By Steve Baty

A Fresh Anvil Bike

Oh yes! A lovely new bike. ASI Kestrel hired Anvil Studios to design a fabulous new carbon filter Time Trial bike. By Yanko Design

Peter Treadway's motorized footwear

Designed by RISD and Art Center grad Peter Treadway (nom de guerre?), the namesake shoes are meant to be a fun way to encourage people to travel on foot to a public transportation center. There's a YouTube movie that displays how this works in this article. By Core77

Fortune's smartest designers in tech

Fortune's 50 Smartest People in Tech article highlights individuals in the expected categories of CEO, Analyst, Engineer, Scientist, Academic and, we were pleasantly surprised to see, Designer.

Hitachi's dockable LifeStudio

Over the years, the form factor of external hard drives has been whittled down into increasingly smaller, simple bricks; now, for better or worse, comes a more complicated form from Hitachi in their LifeStudio drive.

Is a career in packaging design appealing to ID grads?

New concept for bike covers

The armadillo-like SunRed solar moped concept features a cool way to cover the bike up when it's parked. By Core77

iPads mmakes kiosks so easy

Sooner or later businesses were bound to figure out that the iPad makes the perfect low-cost, low-maintenance kiosk. By Core77

Richard Seymour on imagination

We don't need to talk about what we can do, we need think about what we should do. And that's the role of the designer, because they might be the only person in the room who's got that imagination, that capability to think beyond it.
Richard Seymour

Starting out

Starting Out is a new series by Core77 about designers who have recently struck out on their own. More than a string of studio visits, the series profiles talented, risk-taking professionals all around the world. We hope their anecdotes will inspire your own entrepreneurial spirit. By Lisa Smith

Milan Gallery: The Closest Thing on Earth to Outer Space

With an interior by the architect Simone Micheli, the publishing house and bookstore L'Archivolto spreads--and spaces--out. By Susanne Labarre

Concept for U.K. Bullet Train Revealed

PriestmanGoode creates an exterior that harks to a design classic, and an interior that looks like a living room. By Cliff Kuang

How low can you cellphone limbo?

AKA how simple can you design a mobile phone? Pretty darn simple. Designer Andrew Kim had a qualm with the HTC group, that being the fact that there’s no real perfectly simple way to differentiate between lots of “lower-end” phones and “premium models”, especially in the HTC line. By Yanko Design

Winged faucets of love

This project goes by the name “Wings”, a faucet system that contains and distributes that lovely liquid on bird’s pride-like handles. By Yanko Design

Micoffee

Combining the servings of coffee, tea and hot cocoa in a single appliance, designer Carlos Marquez has presented a personal brewing station that allows users to customize the size of their beverage from 6oz, 8oz, 10oz or 12oz, so there is no waste of water. By Naresh Chauhan

Better ideas faster

Better Ideas Faster: How to Brainstorm More Effectively

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Shimmering Art Makes a Parking Garage Disappear

Ned Kahn's shimmering wall of aluminum helps hide an eyesore. By Alissa Walker

Three Things Google Can Learn From Apple

Why P&G's slogan "Experience Matters" is relevant for tech companies, how tools can be funny, and why no one ever really needs a screwdriver. By Henrik Werdelin

GE and Yves Behar Unveil Charge-Stations for Electric Cars

The stations will drop the time required to charge a car down to as little as four hours. By Cliff Kuang

Prosthetic Flipper Turns Amputees Into Mermen

Swedish designer Richard Stark's Neptune concept could help amputees swim. By Suzanne Labarre

An Aquarium That's Also a Giant Pile of Pebbles

It's an aquarium! By Suzanne Labarre

A Gym on Steroids, Designed by MVRDV and ADEPT

It's a fitness center but also a theater, a health spa, an exhibition space, a study hall, a place to eat, and a Zen center. By Suzanne Labarre

Can a Ball Help Kids Learn Braille?

Be-B could teach Braille to children, blind or not, through touch and sound. By Suzanne Labarre

IDEA Spotlight: Speech Therapy Made Easy

The Palatometer projects tongue movements onto a computer screen, providing a clear visual of how you thpeak -- sorry, speak. By Suzanne Labaree

How Honeywell Is Redesigning the Skies

Bob Smith, Honeywell's CTO, talks with FastCompany.com about the technology that will soon control the skies overhead. By Cliff Kuang

Almost Genius: An AR Interface for Drawing in 3-D

Somehow, this weird little device actually makes a decent amount of sense. By Cliff Kuang

Prosthesis, a step closer towards new cyborg society

Prosthetic limb is a novel innovation in itself, but if comes equipped with advanced technologies, it becomes more than handy for the user. By Naresh Chauhan

IceCloud fridge extracts humidity from thin air for natural cooling

Developed for the Electrolux Design Lab 2010, the “IceCloud” by Hungarian designer Fanni Csernátony is an intelligent, comfortable and eco-friendly cooler appliance that uses the natural cooling effect of water (passive cooling) and clay pots. By Naresh Chauhan

Pop-Up Restaurants Popping Up All Over

Most hot restaurants follow the same trajectory: Big investment, smash opening with celebrities and hoi-polloi, then the Yogi Berra phase, where "nobody goes there any more, it's too crowded", then decline and close. By Lloyd Alter

Get it right, people, it's "Coroflot" for chrissakes

Microsoft may bring the Courier project back online. By Core77

Designer Mark Sanders uploads his original Strida bike student thesis

You've seen it in the window of Design Within Reach, or cutting through traffic down Broadway; but now you can take a very different look at the iconic, folding Strida bike. By Core77

Book Review: Box, Bottle, Bag, by Andrew Gibbs

Taking the best designs from his website the The Dieline, Gibbs has produced a lovingly photographed book of packaging accompanied with copy about the agency that designed it, often including quotes about the project. By Robert Blinn

From the Master of Speed Comes a Lean, Green City Car

It’s a long way from the McLaren F1 and the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren to a tiny city car, but Gordon Murray, the legendary engineer whose Formula One racecars have won 50 grand prix, likes a challenge. By Jim Motavalli