Showing the story behind the data

The name Nicholas Feltron will be familiar to many people, many more than might have thought they’d be interested in looking at graphs. By Meld Studios

A Service Design Approach Is Required To Deliver Great Customer Experiences

For commercial contexts, that's true. But there is so much more...By Meld Studios

More Detail On Apple's New Foster-Designed Headquarters

Some additional information surrounding the upcoming new Apple campus. By TreeHugger

Cell Phone Design

Timekeeping gets a radical makeover with the LOAD Watch

Ever since cellphones with built-in clocks came into our lives, the first dress-up essential to get the boot was the timepiece. By Designbuzz

Facebook’s Design Strategy: A Status Update

It seems odd, if not entirely counterintuitive, to find any building on Facebook’s main campus devoid of devices connected to the social-networking site. By Design Mind

Bang & Olufsen's Gorgeous BeoSound 5, A $3,555 Home Stereo For Luddites

Bang & Olufsen’s new BeoSound 5 Encore tries to sidestep iTunes navigation system while offering high-end digital audio. By James Gaddy

Game Developer Kevin Slavin On How Algorithms Mold Our Cities

Slavin, a noted game developer, notes that entire city neighborhoods are being remade to resemble computer chips. And we've barely even noticed. By James Gaddy

5 Ways That Standardization Can Lead To Innovation

We'd like to think that innovation comes from freewheeling chaos. Think again: It's extreme order that begets breakthroughs in business. By Henry King

"Float" App Adds Easy-Reading Interfaces To Your Social Media Feeds

It's like Readability meets Twitter, but with a couple extra touches that make the reading experience smoother than ever. By John Pavlus

Imogen Heap's Digital Gloves Let Her Sculpt Music Out of Gestures

She can mix and manipulate sounds into music live on stage with a gestural interface. By John Pavlus

The Creator Of TED Aims To Reinvent Conferences Once Again

Wurman’s plan is to stage a series of improvisational one-to-one conversations, held in front of a small invitation-only audience and then disseminated via a high-quality app. By Warren Berger

How Twitter And Facebook Helped Bing Thom Design A Public Library

Where most architects would rely on town-hall meetings and focus groups to learn what the community wanted, Bing Thom had to rely on Facebook and Twitter to meet an exacting deadline. By Linda Tischler

Arduino-Controlled Robot “Paints” Like Georges Seurat

French designer Paul Ferragut has built a robot that throws a bunch of dots on canvas and calls it art. (That’s also known as the entire career of Georges Seurat.) By Suzanne Labarre

A multifunctional gadget formed by joining various elements

As a child, you must have played a game in which bits and pieces are to be placed together. This results in interesting shapes of different sizes and is a fun-filled activity. By Designbuzz

Rail Whale concept for new-age trams

You’ve seen trams and London’s double-decker buses. But clearly, nobody has ever thought of combining the two. Until now, it has the length of the average tram and has two levels. It’s just a concept for now, but a great idea which could be realized and made practical. By Designbuzz

S1 Digital Pilot's Headset

Aviation industry is constantly focused on developing headsets for the worthy pilots who have to undergo the discomfort of hearing unwanted noise in the aircraft. By Design Buzz

Sustainable 'Farm Tower' in London offers a solution to food crisis

The “London Farm Tower” is an amazing concept by Brandon Martella and is situated on the southern bank of the river Thames, facing Potter’s Field. By Design Buzz

Hostel kiosk for backpackers

One of the best ways to know a country is to backpack through its little known towns and off-map destinations. For backpackers, hostels and similar lodges are the staple accommodation that allows travelers to meet many people and share common experiences. By Design Buzz

The Ultimate Bike Handle

Okay first of all, WOW. By Yanko Design

Learning Tool for Deaf Children

The VV-Talker is a device designed for deaf children to help them overcome their problem in speaking effectively. By Yanko Design

BMW Electric Trike-Car

The BMW i1 is an electric, single-seater concept by designer Amadou Ba Ndiaye that fuses motorcycle thrill with the safety of a car into one eye-catching concept. By Yanko Design

Strategic Innovation And The Quest For Breakthrough Ideas

Innovation is now a very hot topic at the C-Suites. By Innovation Playground

The Ideum MT55 Platform is the world's thinnest multi-touch table

In this era of multitouch phones, monitors and other such devices, one cannot really predict what the next invention would be. Multi-touch tables are something that catches our focus. By Design Buzz

Softshell Velomobile

Gone are the days of the usual 4-seater vehicles. Almost every car manufacturer looks towards making a model which would be another run off the mil. By Design Buzz

Tondo Multitouch Table looks to de-stress clinical audits for medical staff

Created as a part of the Interaction Design Thesis Project for the Visual and Multimedia Communication graduate program of the University of Venice, the Tondo Multitouch Table looks to simplify the process of clinical audits and help medical professionals to find the source of a critical error that may have put a patient at risk with ease. By Design Buzz

Prototype dual-screened 2-in-1 Android smartpad from Imerj preview

From the front it looks like yet another plain smartphone -- dark, nondescript, and maybe a little like an iPhone 4 that's had its right-most extent sliced off. Pick it up, though, and you realize this little thing isn't so nondescript. From Engadget

Why Can't All TV Remotes Be This Good?

The remote control has become a maddening jumble of buttons. U.K.-based NDS distills the device down to its essential functions. By Fastcodesign

The design dilemma: Dismay vs. Delight

Designers evoke great delight in their work. Engineers provide utilitarian value. By Core77

When mobile payments make sense

Mobile payment systems have yet to take off. Or oven reach of point in which paying with your mobile have any kind of disruptive effect. There are two reasons for this. By Baekdal

Future Touch Tech

This concept computer-of-the-future by designer Jakub Záhoř allows the user to operate the device anywhere they can find a glass surface. By Yanko Design

Anytime, Anywhere Deliverable Hospital

Designer Kukil Han imagines a go-anywhere solution for providing aid to victims of natural disasters such as floods, earthquakes, tsunamis and storms. By Yanko Design

The Porsche 929

The Porsche Panamara. By Yanko Design

I Just Died and Went to Samsung Galaxy Heaven

Here is a concept phone that you can't help but fall in love with. Name the features and it’s all in there. Flexible screen, projector, camera…ah the works! One of those designs where you let the pictures do the talking…so go ahead and hit the jump! By Yanko Design

Six Tips for Designing Without Pixels

Pixel perfection must become a thing of the past – so let’s talk about how you actually design for a world without pixels. By Zurb

'A Day Made of Glass' and What That Means for Design

Obviously as this video was sponsored by Corning they have a vested interest in getting people excited about glass, but just take a look at the video and pick out two displays that have the same size and aspect ratio. Or opacity. Or surface color.

Whether technology evolves this way or not, the way we interact with data and media is going to change drastically, and we're no longer going to have the kind of standard canvas control we have now. By Zurb

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