3 Ways Design Thinking Can Become Part of Your Business
Design thinking is more relevant than you might imagine. Here are three ways you can apply it to your business.
Category: Technology
What Is Web Accessibility and Why Is Everyone Talking About It?
Altering or enriching your content to make it available to as many people as possible is at the heart of web accessibility. Quite often this means adding alternative options for viewing or navigating content—but what sounds simple in principle can prove complex in practice.
How Steelcase Used the Power of Polymer to Build a Better Chair
For Silq, its new task chair, Steelcase replaces complex mechanisms with a single responsive substance.
Survival Strategies for the Robot Invasion
Call it what you want—Robogeddon? the Robopocalypse?—it’s now accepted that automation will have a large impact on the job market. The question is, then, how do you survive the coming robot invasion? Here are two important ideas that can help inoculate your career against automation.
Essays / Service / Technology
Everything You Need to Know About Sensors in the Workplace
It’s been a few years since software began giving managers the ability to monitor what their employees were doing on their computers. But as of late, a new kind of sensor is finding its way into mainstream acceptance: the ones that measure employees’ actions away from their desks.
Q & A with IDEO’s David Webster
IDEO partner and executive creative director David Webster explains why innovating for health and wellness is the defining design challenge of our time.
Q & A with Andrew Kudless
With his sculptural objects – from intricate lamps to massive concrete wall installations – the designer explores the cutting edge of parametric design and digital manufacturing.