Designing for the hardest conditions takes those assumptions away. If you cannot count on a precise grip, you have to study ...

n the early 1980s, a major telecom company hired a consulting firm to make a projection of global mobile phone adoption by the year 2000. After studying the devices, with their clunky handsets and ...

There are thousands of designers who design injection molded parts but there is an elite group within this large community who can actually design parts for injection molders. Injection molded product ...

The awareness of the positive impact safety professionals can have on design seems to have eluded engineers, myself included, in years past. For me, the problem became most apparent when I was thrust ...

As generative AI captures public attention, a different kind of AI is reshaping drug discovery. Machine learning models are ...

Accessibility should not be a grudging afterthought. With planning, it can lead to elegant, beautiful, and engaging art. Alice Sheppard, a multiracial Black woman with coffee-colored skin and short ...

Room2learn is a bit like a Pinterest for classrooms. The peer-to-peer site offers both small-scale and big-picture ideas for rethinking those traditional rows of desks in classrooms. There are simple ...

Product design engineers today face so many pressures associated with cost and turn-around time, that manufacturing considerations sometimes end up on the back burner. MD+DI recently interviewed three ...

Debating the foundations of meaningful interior design would no doubt elicit familiar ideas about how the practice exists to make spaces functional, safe, and beautiful by means of color, texture, ...