Hello World: Where Design Meets Life

The design process is now deemed to have a value of its own and is increasingly applied to strategic and organizational issues in the form of what is called ‘design thinking’. Coined in 1991 by the American design engineer David Kelley, design thinking refers to the skills that designers develop, often without realizing, in analysing problems, usin... See more

But he had another asset at his disposal, one that is often overlooked by military historians but has proved indispensable to ambitious warlords throughout history: an unusually sophisticated understanding of design.

When people talk about the design of a phone, or of most other objects, they are usually referring to how they look, but that is only a fraction of what it will have contributed. It is thanks to the process of analysis, visualization, planning and execution, which we call design, that breakthroughs in scientific research are translated into product... See more

Pirates had deployed flags as part of their terror tactics for centuries, but had done so individually.

There were no more than fifteen recognized dog breeds in Britain in 1815, but now there are over four hundred, and one hundred and fifty of them have official pedigree societies.

Designing is not a profession but an attitude. — László Moholy-Nagy1

Precisely what design means and how it is applied has differed from company to company, industry to industry, country to country and era to era, depending on the scale of the project,

One is to relegate design to the role of styling or decoration.

The resulting rifle was accurate, often more so than the AK-47, but flawed in other respects. Critically, it was prone to jamming after being fired, and when that happened, removing the empty shell was cumbersome and time-consuming. This posed grave problems for US servicemen in Vietnam as they fought the North Vietnamese and Vietcong armies, both ... See more