Insights

Sometimes we need to embrace our inner Janet Jackson and be the ones in control.

What's in a flange? Well, when it comes to product design, it's the attention to details that can make all the difference.

Leading an after-school fashion design and sewing club reveals the truisms behind design thinking.

Technology is making it easier to stay in the home and community you love as you age. That's a wonderful thing.

Do you know someone who can absorb a vast amount of complex information about a problem and combine it into a cohesive, elegant solution?

Instead of a nice story that reads like your favorite episode of This American Life, here’s a few thoughts on things I’ve noticed over the last couple months.

Experience design is a field prepared to help healthcare workers effectively use new diagnostic technologies, but it is a pretty wicked problem to tackle.

A few months ago, I was able to experience co-creation from the client side of things. I signed up for a ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE workshop at Door County Forgeworks.

No need to pick sides. Become a hybrid designer instead.

It's really interesting to see how companies choose to react when they’re under a ton of competitive pressure. It can be easy for companies to get conservative.

Using the BioReactor we helped design and manufacture, Dr. Hopkins' team have reached a milestone in developing a process for replacing pediatric heart valves.

Making a difference and calling attention to important issues through design is more achievable once designers get over the fact that they're not artists.

Manufacturers that lead the way towards sustainable medical device design will gain significant business advantages over those that sit on the sidelines.

Imagine a future where emerging technology — wearable sensors and 3D printers — are so accessible they’re embedded into most everyday objects

How might Leonardo da Vinci operate as a UX designer in the year 2014? I sent him a time machine and asked him.

We recently changed the name of our user interface design team to Interaction Design. The latter encompasses the dynamics of a user’s interaction with a system — including the user’s perceptual, cognitive, and physical interaction with the system, as well as the system’s response to the user.

As the world and its devices have grown more electrical, Delve has followed suit.

If your design requires a photorealistic image to show it is different from prior designs, it may not be innovative enough.

How about smaller companies who don’t have the budget for an innovation lab or the leeway to afford failed experiments? How can they get in on Design Thinking?

In my first two posts about the future of design I outlined a few ways product designers should set themselves up to thrive in their careers. In this last post I’ll step back for a broader view of some waves of change headed our way.

As design and manufacturing become more commoditized, strategy to inform product experiences will be valued higher than implementation. This is good news for product designers who love digging into upfront work.

As the emphasis in industrial design (ID) continues to shift from form toward user interface (UI) and other elements of human to computer interaction, industrial designers will need to figure out how to thrive in a digital environment.

User interface design patents are more important than ever. Here are tips for designers on how to make the UI patent process work for you.