By The New York Times This article is part of our Design special report previewing Milan Design Week. When Marcel Wanders and Casper Vissers started the Dutch furniture company Moooi in 2001, it was ...

Everyone thinks they understand good design, and while we all understand our tastes, there’s more to making a product well designed than just making it pretty. Form and function have to combine to ...

The most common element you see on any web page is a form. Some place to enter in some data; whether it be your username and password, or a wall post on your mom's Facebook wall. Luke Wroblewski is a ...

In the digital age, good design doesn’t just result in objects: It results in new relationships. In 1969, Hartmut Esslinger founded the global design and strategy firm now known as frog, and in so ...

Power-electronics design involves a multiplicity of tradeoffs that can be guided by criteria that are useful in assessing how close a design is to optimum. This article surveys some common guiding ...

The mechanical engineers doing project work at a high-profile restaurant specified an air conditioner that needed to be installed 12 inches above the roofline due to its size, making it visible from ...