Insights

We opened up wearables from leading companies to see how so much was packed into something so little.

Learn about the 5 important factors to consider when deciding between an off-the-shelf or custom embedded display for your digital interface.

What comes before and after you walk in your users' shoes? We distill empathic design into six principles for easy adoption.

How to create a successful product – whether you're designing a product that's physical, digital, or somewhere in between.

We asked our staff to nominate the biggest innovations of the past 12 months that will have an influence on product design.

In 2021 you devoured blogs about looking at old problems in new ways, unlocking your professional potential, and creating products that change the world for the better.

There’s a growing sense of urgency and renewed purpose in the design community.

Warning: I’m going to criticize and question something beloved by millions of people—stationary exercise bikes.

40-90% of consumers base their buying decisions on color. Learn how to apply user-first design thinking to finding the right color in product design.

Soaring demand for wearables has created a market saturated with the things—prompting an 18.1 percent year-over-year growth worldwide, according to Gartner.

Having trouble deciphering the FDA waterfall diagram process for medical device design and development? You’re not the only one.

A simple open-sourced design had a massive social impact—40 million face shields were produced for front-line workers fast and without expensive tooling investments.

Too many times design thinking projects fall victim to the trappings of innovation theater. Here's how not to let that happen.

More than just compensating for the loss of in-person collaboration, digital whiteboards provide clear benefits, namely reducing barriers between disciplines and fostering more open, dynamic relationships with clients.

A primer on what, how and when the discipline of human factors is used in the design and development of products.

It’s not easy keeping it together under pressure. Yet these little marvels do it every day tens of thousands of times over. Do you know how staples are made?

IoT data collection impacts data deployment, sensor selection, security, and more. It's at the core of every smart product's user experience — and success.

Learn design techniques to maximize device reliability for common sterilization processes — autoclave, ethylene oxide, and ionizing radiation.

A thoughtfully designed care model can support better outcomes in ways that better fit into people’s lives. How exactly will care models have to change?

The JOC method lets you move into ideation confident that you're working from something more than a hunch.

We’ve compiled some advice for those facing, or anticipating, the semiconductor shortage. These workarounds are useful when facing any kind of hardware part shortage.

“T-shaped” is a term used to describe someone’s knowledge and skills. For those of us in product design, it’s a good shape to be.

The vehicle expo area of CES has been one of the most exciting parts of the trade show in recent years.

At CES in 2019, Verizon Chairman and CEO Hans Vestberg gave the opening keynote address about the upcoming advantages of 5G.

In some ways, CES seems like a strange place to talk about sustainability.

If your home is your castle, during the pandemic it’s also your office, classroom, coffee shop/restaurant/bar, gym, entertainment venue, spa, and, yeah, that place where you sleep.

Here’s a mind-blowing set of statistics for you: prior to 2020, only 24 percent of healthcare systems offered any form of virtual care.

In early 2020, Abbott Laboratories recognized the need for COVID-19 testing and used their massive resources to ramp up production quickly.

Being home more in 2020 meant a little more down time, including more time for books and audio books.

The list of industries experiencing huge disruption fueled by “technology” is growing by the day.