Everyone thinks they understand good design, and while we all understand our tastes, there’s more to making a product well designed than just making it pretty. Form and function have to combine to ...

Power-electronics design involves a multiplicity of tradeoffs that can be guided by criteria that are useful in assessing how close a design is to optimum. This article surveys some common guiding ...

In the digital age, good design doesn’t just result in objects: It results in new relationships. In 1969, Hartmut Esslinger founded the global design and strategy firm now known as frog, and in so ...

The mechanical engineers doing project work at a high-profile restaurant specified an air conditioner that needed to be installed 12 inches above the roofline due to its size, making it visible from ...

The designer’s installation at the textile fair proposes new routes for material innovation – epitomised by an ...