Ever wonder why that bus stop sits abandoned in the middle of a parking lot wasteland? Or why taking public transit to your suburban office park feels like planning a moon mission? The problem isn't ...

You’d think Tesla would have made sure the first unit was picture perfect—not a perfect picture of a classic Tesla imperfection. While a single unit may not be indicative of future quality mayhem, it ...

Once a niche process used mostly in product design, design thinking has become a flexible, people-first framework for solving problems across business, education, entertainment, and more. This story, ...

The field of hub location and network design problems is central to optimising transportation and communication systems. At its core, this area of research addresses the challenge of selecting ...

Human-centric design allows companies to focus on the challenges they want their products to solve and not be swayed by hot new technologies, just because they are trending, says Andy Busam, principal ...

An approach that promised to democratize design may have done the opposite. When Kyle Cornforth first walked into IDEO’s San Francisco offices in 2011, she felt she had entered a whole new world. At ...

The Second Studio (formerly The Midnight Charette) is an explicit podcast about design, architecture, and the everyday. Hosted by Architects David Lee and Marina Bourderonnet, it features different ...