While the notion of invisible or boring design isn’t new — after all Dieter Rams’ 10th principle is: good design is as little design as possible — designing for simplicity still seems to be difficult.

No matter how powerful, all technology is neutral. Electricity can be designed to kill (the electric chair) or save lives (a home on the grid in an inhospitable climate). The same is true for ...

The upside: Designers thrive on questioning convention–on unearthing solutions to seemingly intractable problems. If 2017 revealed anything, it’s that good design has never mattered more; it’s just ...

The Swiss design style, often referred to as the “International Typographic Style,” emerged in Switzerland during the 1950s and became a dominant force in graphic and web design globally. Its core ...

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Humans are, by nature, very visual beings. In the brain itself, there are hundreds of millions of neurons devoted to visual processing, nearly 30 percent of the entire cortex, as compared with 8 ...

What are the five core principles of hardware/software co-design? How do these principles help build a geographically diverse engineering organization that can successfully develop complex solutions ...