When a design doesn’t work, it often draws more attention to itself than when it works perfectly. A wobbly shopping cart, a flimsy potato peeler, a puzzling highway sign: These are common nuisances.

Born to two architects, Gadi Amit was already playing with design before he could form full sentences. But at 23, he decided to make it his vocation, so he went to design school. Today, Amit is the ...

For a designer, “ugliness” hasn’t historically been something to strive for. Beauty has largely been a no-brainer when it comes to what’s desirable, or what constitutes “good” design. Yet, culturally, ...

Many designers are increasingly warming to the idea of incorporating AI in design, says Cecilia Brenner, the managing ...

Investing in design makes a fundamental difference in the performance of a company, a new study by consulting firm McKinsey has found. The study looked at the design capabilities of 300 publicly ...

No simple checklist could ever fully define what we mean by good design, but when we look at examples of it, we see that some essential elements tend to show up consistently. As we described in the ...

THERE are three classical pillars of good architectural design: strength (durability), utility (functionality), and beauty (aesthetics). These enduring principles articulated by the Roman architect ...

When RECORD first launched the Good Design is Good Business Awards in 1997, attitudes toward the impact of design on profit were changing. According to the editors at the time, corporations and ...

User experience (UX) design focuses on enhancing user satisfaction by improving how we interact with the websites, applications and devices in our lives. In other words, UX makes complex things easy ...

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