Insights

Home self-testing kits have played a crucial role in managing the spread of COVID-19 in the US, but hidden in the societal benefit is a steep environmental price.

Speculative design requires people to suspend their disbelief and allow their imaginations to wander. Here's one tool to ground it in reality.

Learn about the 5 important factors to consider when deciding between an off-the-shelf or custom embedded display for your digital interface.

What comes before and after you walk in your users' shoes? We distill empathic design into six principles for easy adoption.

What is product design? Do you really know what it means?

We asked our staff to nominate the biggest innovations of the past 12 months that will have an influence on product design.

In 2021 you devoured blogs about looking at old problems in new ways, unlocking your professional potential, and creating products that change the world for the better.

There’s a growing sense of urgency and renewed purpose in the design community.

Warning: I’m going to criticize and question something beloved by millions of people—stationary exercise bikes.

We developed a color selection methodology that applies user-first design thinking to finding the right color in product design.

Soaring demand for wearables has created a market saturated with the things—prompting an 18.1 percent year-over-year growth worldwide, according to Gartner.

Having trouble deciphering the FDA waterfall diagram process for medical device design and development? You’re not the only one.

A simple open-sourced design had a massive social impact—40 million face shields were produced for front-line workers fast and without expensive tooling investments.

Women make up just 20% of professional industrial designers in the United States, according to an industry survey by Core77.

A primer on what, how and when the discipline of human factors is used in the design and development of products.

It’s not easy keeping it together under pressure. Yet these little marvels do it every day tens of thousands of times over. Do you know how staples are made?

IoT data collection impacts data deployment, sensor selection, security, and more. It's at the core of every smart product's user experience — and success.

Learn design techniques to maximize device reliability for common sterilization processes — autoclave, ethylene oxide, and ionizing radiation.

When we reflect on 2020, we may come to think of it a period when we had the time to pursue simpler, do-it-yourself, pleasures like making bread or planting a garden. Many of us used the endless pandemic months to learn a new a language or take up a new outdoor sport.

The 'Jobs, Outcomes, and Constraints' method lets you move into ideation knowing that you're working from something more than a hunch.

The vehicle expo area of CES has been one of the most exciting parts of the trade show in recent years.

At CES in 2019, Verizon Chairman and CEO Hans Vestberg gave the opening keynote address about the upcoming advantages of 5G.

In some ways, CES seems like a strange place to talk about sustainability.

If your home is your castle, during the pandemic it’s also your office, classroom, coffee shop/restaurant/bar, gym, entertainment venue, spa, and, yeah, that place where you sleep.

Here’s a mind-blowing set of statistics for you: prior to 2020, only 24 percent of healthcare systems offered any form of virtual care.

In early 2020, Abbott Laboratories recognized the need for COVID-19 testing and used their massive resources to ramp up production quickly.

Being home more in 2020 meant a little more down time, including more time for books and audio books.