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 ...

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 utopian image of productive, social employees that open office once conjured has not met expectations. While the elimination of private offices in favor of communal workstations has cut costs, in ...

“When did it start? It really started in my head a long, long time ago.” So says Emily G. Hanna about when the idea came to her for the new exhibition at the Mingei International Museum. To hear her ...

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 ...

Art museums are, for the most part, full of paintings and sculptures you might love to own — a Renoir for the living room, that Rodin for the backyard — but never could afford. In Atlanta, The High ...