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Amazon’s success brings into relief a principle that is sometimes hard to swallow in the design community: Successful design is not necessarily beautiful.

The cold blue light of modern touchscreens may be aesthetically pleasing, but it poses health problems. Designers and technologists should take cues from military history and embrace the orange.

Want to foster creativity? Skip the foosball table and opt for a war room instead. Google Ventures's Jake Knapp shows you how. Plus: a peek inside...

Innovation is hard to pin down, but with these six insights Ideo says it’s cracking the code.

Users hate them. They're bad for business. So why do they persist?

What might Ikea’s confusing instructions look like in AR? One designer decided to find out.

Ikea is partnering with Adidas, Lego, and Sonos to sell you <em>everything</em>.

The most famous designer in the world didn’t hold back when he spoke at the Hirshhorn Museum last week.

Google and Apple are both hyper-successful companies, but chart their patents, and they have completely different innovation signatures.

Jobs’s work with legendary designer Paul Rand taught him lessons that any designer, client, or entrepreneur should take to heart.

Design thinking, as it was conceived 15 years ago, has outlived its usefulness. Enter systems thinking.

In conversation with Co.Design, design researcher Don Norman offers casual, cutting criticism of Silicon Valley's brightest.

Your voice is louder, and more meaningful, than you think. This new research visualizes its impact.

The startup turns its data into fascinating visualizations of urban ebbs and flows.

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