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 ...

Putting their autonomous vehicle prototype through its paces on the engineering quad, student team members monitor sensor responses as the full-sized golf cart skims quietly across the walkway. Under ...

Most users walk away from AI tools unsure of what the system actually did or why it made specific decisions. That's a design ...

One of the best things about Google is that you can go looking for information about one thing, find something tangentially related, and end up learning (or relearning) something interesting. In my ...

In this article, you’ll learn (or remember) what is the one thing you need to start solving any problem. I wrote this originally for a talk I gave a while ago, and I also posted a video on my youtube ...

From an accessible history of design to a facsimile of a super rare architecture magazine, these are the books we loved this year.

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 ...

Rapid prototyping processes, part of design thinking, can lead to an abundance of fresh ideas. In last week’s column, we shared how biopharmaceutical company AbbVie uses design thinking to humanize ...

Design problems are now the primary cause of construction claims and disputes, according to HKA's CRUX Insight 2020 report. “Design problems are more likely to occur as a result of increasingly tight ...

In a setting of garish sports shirts, pastel shorts, and knobby knees pinkening in the summer sun, 500 designers, teachers and admen gathered in Colorado last week for the eleventh annual Aspen ...