Automobiles can suffer from featuritis just like any number of products and systems. Michael Beavers shares one that that seems to simply get it right.
Sometimes we can witness great design thinking in the most quotidian of media. Here's a short exploration of a locally famous warning sign from the wilderness of Northern California.
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Building homes from kits has been popular as early as the late 1800s when Sears Roebuck & Co sold and shipped plans, pre-measured materials and hardware to any point in the country served by a rail line. Here's a look at a modern take on kit housing.
Apart from the aesthetic, has anything really changed?
The Cambridge Nanoscience Centre and Nokia have created a concept for a nanotech device called the Morph, which is a phone, a payment card, a wristwatch, a fashion accessory and any number of other things that shiftshapes to suit the mode of the user.
In the United States, we growl about having freedom of choice about how we travel and then ironically opt a single mode of transport (usually a large car), clog the interstates and arterials, and complain about how poorly the transportation system works. Finite spaces can support a surprisingly large number of transportation modes and keep everyone moving efficiently toward their destinations.
Holger Struppek shares some design insights that went into Wells Fargo's touchscreen ATM interface--a product freed from a major hardware-imposed restriction of the past.
Daniel McCormick's watershed protection installations are beautiful--even inspiring--because they blend in with the environment while serving an important engineering function. Can we extend his lessons to large-scale construction projects?
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