Have you ever thought about how and why something was designed? Who was considered a “stakeholder” for the design? And what biases are baked within the process of designing something? These are some ...

Once upon a time, integrated circuits (ICs) were built by the same companies that designed them. The design of an IC was tightly integrated with the manufacturing processes available within each ...

Why does anything have to change? A manufacturing company’s most critical product decisions are made every day in design reviews. And if you assess the state of what a design review looks like today, ...

Successful risk management is essential to the design and development of safe and effective medical devices. Unfortunately, it is too often viewed by manufacturers as an isolated activity that must be ...

Increasingly, the concept of social sustainability has become a central theme in contemporary architecture discussions as users' subjective and non-static needs become paramount in the design process.

Technical personnel such as engineers and designers need to have input on a device's features and intended functions. In the fiercely competitive medical device and instrumentation industry, speeding ...

There are moments when architects take the design process beyond their practice and engage with potential users as design participants. This expands the design framework and makes the input of future ...

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 ...