Three Principles of Being Frank

Frank Gehry, the Pultzer Prize winning mastermind architect behind buildings such as Guggenheim Museum in Spain, MIT State Center in Boston, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and many others, has been named the most important architect of our age. By Zurb

How Design Teamwork Crushes Bureaucracy

Design sometimes feels like therapy. By Zurb

Fire The M.B.A.s and Let Engineers Run the Show

Vice Chairman of General Motor's, Bob Lutz argues for the desperate need of doers instead of bean counters. Product driven managers, leaders, executives are the people that build successful and sustainable companies. Bean counters usually kill them. By Zurb

Spend a Little Less Time Pitching and More Time Listening

If a product team understands the customers' motivations, then they’re able to use that knowledge to work toward balancing the business goals and user needs. By Zurb

Steve Jobs: Innovation is saying 'no' to 1,000 things

Nike CEO, Mark Parker says that shortly after becoming CEO and working on Nike+ with Apple he talked to Steve Jobs on the phone. “Do you have any advice?” Parker asked Jobs. Here is what Jobs had to say. By Zurb

Communicaid allows the hearing impaired to 'see' sounds around them

The Communicaid design concept from South Korean designer Jaepyung Lee stems from the disadvantages that the hearing impaired people encounter in the course of their daily routines. By Design Buzz

Kokoro wearable cellphone keeps working parents in touch with kids

Cellphones have become an essential part of our lives. They have become as important as oxygen and have shrunk the world even further. But, the question remains how important are they for children? By Design Buzz

Recumbent Moon Buggy Trike can tackle commute on the moon

Winner of the Best Design Award at the 2011 edition of NASA’s annual Great Moon buggy Race, the RISD Moon Buggy 2011 is one of the most sophisticated recumbent trikes that have surfaced in a few years now. By Design Buzz

Ex-Apple Designer Creates Teaching UI That "Kills Math" Using Data Viz

Designer Bret Victor hopes so: his prototype UI turns gnarly differential equations into something normal humans can understand. By John Pavlus

VOID, An iPad Mag That Aims To Teach The Art Of Coding

Natalie Hanke's mag-app doesn't exist in the iTunes Store yet, but it should. By John Pavlus

Vital Contents of a Business Card

Every business would opt to have a business card. Of course, graphic designers should have one, too. This is necessary for whatever business transactions but you also have to make sure that your card contains a complete advertisement about you and your company. By Ronald Bien

Fujitsu Smart Pad is actually very smart

In this smart world, loaded with even smarter gadgets, what more can someone yearn for. By Buzz Design

A foldable electric scooter for a pollution free ride

Scooters are getting a whole new avatar and their demand is rising. By Buzz Design

The DuoCycle is a must have conception for all people with disabilities. By Design Buzz

Mobility device promises a green ride along with personal fitness

Modern roads come choked with a variety of vehicles, which lead to nasty traffic snarls. By Design Buzz

Wash your clothes with the power of Android

The Moshi*Matic is a unique piece of connected washing device, powered by an ARM CPU, running on Android. By Buzz Design

Hi-tech mirror + story telling

“Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who is the prettiest of us all?” The sentence that reminds us of the lives of Snow White and the seven dwarfs, would now be dictated by every child with a twist. By Design Buzz

Seabob motorized water vehicle

Are you a water sports lover who likes exploring things both above and under water? By Design Buzz

UK Designers to Tackle Violence and Aggression in A&E Departments

Leading design agency, PearsonLloyd, has been chosen to spearhead a new design-led approach to reducing violence and aggression in hospital Accident and Emergency departments. By Dexigner

Multi-Touch Interactive Experience for IFC

Marking the first collaboration between IFC and Aniden Interactive, the digital design agency created a user interface for IFC's multi-touch interactive experience inside the network's IFC Crossroads House at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival. By Dexigner

Design a slide presentation

Swinburne Design academic Professor Per Mollerup has produced a guide to help presenters create professional looking slide presentations. PowerNotes covers the planning, design and delivery of a slide presentation and offers practical tips for improving presentations. By Dexigner

Maggie Macnab: The Nature of Symbols

Maggie Macnab, in her talk for TEDxABQ, examines how creative problem-solving correlates between human expression and nature's process.

The Nature of Symbols addresses how human beings intuitively read pattern as an understanding of energetic principles in nature, and how these same principles can be applied for effective and aesthetic designed communications, as well.

Espresso Coffee Machine Y1 for Illy

The preparation of good coffee was a well-guarded secret for a long time. By Dexigner

Mondrian Soho

Views + iPads=Room Service. By Notcot

Airbus's Jetliner Of The Future

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Capture, Rewind, Share

Looxcie is the first wearable video cam that captures everything and lets you share instantly with your social network through your smartphone. By Chris Dannen

A New VC Model That Turns Designers, Not Techies, Into Startup CEOs

Enrique Allen's angel-investor and mentoring network is meant to encourage entrepreneurial designers to get into the tech startup game. By John Pavlus

Macquarie Bank

Clive Wilkinson Architects' Macquarie Bank in Sydney, Australia is a fantastic collage of social spaces and colors. The building interior is a complete mish-mash of designs and styles, like walking through design expo showrooms one after the other. By Core77

The CalypsoCase

It’s a case that doesn’t hide the phone under a body amour; in fact it celebrates the design genius with elegance. By Yanko Design

Logo Designs that Require Sharp Eyes and Focus

Logo design is not just a simple tool for establishing identity; it is also a creative source of communication. An organization can utilize it for interacting with target customers by describing the nature of its business. By Ben Johnson

Logo Designs – Anonymous Category

We are familiar with various types of logo designs. There are creative logo designs, artistic logo designs and simple logo designs. By Ben Johnson

Three most important attributes of a Professional Logo design

Logo design industry has grown at phenomenal speed within past few years. There is huge content available on internet that explains the important attributes of a logo, but even then, most people emphasize on simplicity, simplicity and simplicity… By Ben Johnson

Puma glo rider

This Spring PUMA® introduces the PUMA GLOW RIDER, the third edition of the PUMA bike. By Design Applause !

London 2012 olympic torch

Made from a golden aluminum alloy, the triangular torch will be perforated by 8,000 circular holes representing the 8,000 torch-bearers taking part in the Olympic relay and allowing glimpses of the burner system inside. By Design Applause!

Stunning superyacht design

It's not often that a superyacht is inspired by the work of an obscure 19th-century Ukrainian mathematician. But the astonishingly shaped "Voronoi" is exactly that. By George Webster

Apple Design Awards – Source for Apps

Check out the design awards that Apple recently bestowed on these apps. And while you are there, look at those from 2010.

Honda Chopper

The Honda Chopper designed by Pete Norris that seeks to combine form with functionality. By Buzz Design

Echo Memory Capture 2015 helps you relive those fine moments

A camera helps weave everlasting memories; however, sharing them with others always comes with an added effort. By Design Buzz

Steve Jobs pitches new Apple 'spaceship' campus to Cupertino City Council

Apple CEO Steve Jobs revealed plans for a new headquarters for the company that "looks a little like a spaceship" at a City Council meeting in Cupertino, Calif.

15 Facts About The Internet In 2015

In four short years, how different will our online lives be? By Cliff Kuang

The Hospital Room Of The Future

"Patient Room 2020" is designed to heal patients, and make it easy for family and doctors to care for them. By Lydia Dishman

Tablet Computing Is Here To Stay

Without us realizing it, our needs have evolved beyond the smartphone + laptop ecosystem. By Ryan Coulter

San Bleu's yacht concept

One of the lead designers of the Cadillac Converj concept and a graduate of the Royal College of Arts, Ben Walsh has unveiled yet another masterpiece with his mind boggling new design. By Designbuzz

Two way wheelchair

People who are bound to the wheelchair due to immobility often find it very difficult to move away from their wheelchairs. By Designbuzz

Residuary Events

Trash can is one reason that keeps our surroundings clean. But normally we throw all kinds of waste in one can; this poses a trouble while filtering different kinds of garbage. By Designbuzz

Brad Cloepfil

Off limits to the public for decades, Still's coveted estate -- featuring some 2,400 artworks -- will get its very own museum in Denver this fall. By Suzanne Labarre

9/11 memorial, thanks to algorithm

Instead of being listed simply alphabetically, the names at the 9/11 Memorial are listed to reflect friends and co-workers -- A juggling task that was possible only because of a powerful algorithm. By Linda Tischler

Everyday

How MetaLab designer William Wilkinson turned a viral video meme into a best-selling iPhone app. By John Pavlus

Wanted: A super-simple shoe

Tough and refined, Outlier's Supermarine shoe is hand-built for foul weather using a World War II technology that still can't be beat. By Chris Dannen

Smart art-school logo

BMD's morphing new logo for OCAD University, in Toronto, shows what the school's really about: the students. By Suzanne Labarre

A chair that turns hoarding into high design

The Comfy Cargo Chair: keeping slobs classy. By Suzanne Labarre

CCA Junior Critiques at Frog Design

frog design San Francisco hosted two days of California College of the Arts Industrial Design critiques this week for the course "Craft and the Hand Tool" which was co-taught by frog Executive Creative Director, Max Burton. By Core77

Dance to your heartbeat

Heartbeatz is a revolution in wearable visual dance tech. Utilizing infrared reflection technology the device detects the heartbeat of its user and mimics the very movement of the blood in your veins with light via a length of Electro Luminescent wire. By Yanko Design

TriMove

The hubless wheel has yet to reach its full technical potential, but set aside your speculation for just a moment to admire this striking trike concept. By Yanko Design

Reading braille aloud

The Snail is a Braille reader that works smooth as silk on a surface that’s predictably bumpy! It can record the text as it reads for future playback and it even syncs with a Bluetooth headset so the visually impaired can listen to the book without disturbing others. By Yanko Design

Heliboarding Copter?

Have you heard of heliboarding? By Yanko Design

Roofus, Man’s Best Friend

Shoveling snow looks like a hell of a job at the best of times, but when faced with commercial sized buildings, apparently it’s so bad it takes up to 25 men to get the job done. That’s where the humorously named “Roofus” comes in. By Yanko Design

Hackfwd for Lars Hinrichs

HackFwd - Business Models and How Technology is Changing Them - Tom Hulme from HackFwd on Vimeo.

12 ways to add design thinking

12 Ways To Add Design Thinking Into Your Project - Tom Hulme from HackFwd on Vimeo.

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Paper phone to sound death knell for iPhone

Get feedback or fail

Feedback is the key to successful products. Get it early and get it often. Products are supposed to solve problems, but how can you be certain your product is the right solution without asking potential users? By Zurb

The Sketch-Based Response to Client Feedback

For most people, feedback isn't the easiest thing to receive, even for clients. Their product is their foundation, and it's never fun to hear about cracks and weak spots in it. By Zurb

Full Set of Stencils for Sketching iPhone, iPad & Android

Here's a beautiful set of stencils and sketchsheets to make the process easier for iPad, iPhone, and even Android. Enjoy! By Zurb

Foldable notebook

In this technology driven world, notebooks have become an integral part of our life. People who travel carry their notebooks everywhere, but then at times dragging one which is heavy all the way can get on your nerves. By Designbuzz

Proposed Suzhou Children’s Hospital

A new hospital dubbed Suzhou Children’s Hospital in Yangtze Delta Region, conceived by HDR, an employee-owned architecture, engineering and consulting firm, has just came out of the concept stage. By Designbuzz

Control all your touchscreen devices with the power of Ringbow concept

Touch screens have taken the technology driven society by storm. At times always interacting with the screen by touching it gets irritating, but with “Touch Flavor,” a new tool by Ringbow, the whole experience is going to take a 180 degree flip. By Designbuzz

App vs. Web - Why not both?

Because of the high cost of recreating the magazine in an iPad format, we hear things like, "Why rush for more tablet editions before publishers can find big audiences?" Their strategy limits them to mass markets. By Thomas Baekdal

Bike-Lock Handlebars

You break this lock and the bike can't be ridden. By John Pavlus

A Rooftop Hotel Capsule For Eco-Minded Nomads

The future-fetishizing minds over at Nau architects are up with another wacky concept that’ll probably see the light of day precisely never. By Suzanne Labarre

Recharge yourself

MIT Professor Sheila Kennedy and her team at Kennedy and Violich Architecture recently debuted "SOFT Rockers" as part of MIT's 150th-anniversary Festival of Art+Science+Technology (FAST) celebration. By Core77

Building adaptive capacity

As social, economic and ecological conditions continue to worsen and with the increasing sophistication and connectivity of information technology and social media, design for sustainability is now moving towards a new qualitatively different area of exploration: designing to build adaptive capacity. By Michael Sammet

Book review

In Usefulness in Small Things, Industrial Facility's Kim Colin and Sam Hecht share their "Under a Fiver" collection, first presented at London's Design Museum alongside "Some Recent Projects," an exhibit of the firm's own work. By Kim Colin and Sam Hecht

Dimensions of design

Over the last few years, design is increasingly seen as a tool for creating change. By Sami Nerenberg