Last week, I heard a story about a junior designer adding an AI feature to a product. “Look how smart it is!” she said, as the algorithm made recommendations with zero explanation of its logic. It was ...
A light fixture made of seaweed. A dreamy, psychedelic laundry machine. A hairy bench fashioned out of agave leaves. All of these objects appear in the new book Designed for Life: The World’s Best ...
An approach that promised to democratize design may have done the opposite. When Kyle Cornforth first walked into IDEO’s San Francisco offices in 2011, she felt she had entered a whole new world. At ...