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 ...

American architect Louis Sullivan, the father of modernism, is widely credited with the key axiom of 20th century modern architecture: “Form follows function.” That adage is also vital to data center ...

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 ...

Some of the corporate logos for which Paul Rand is best remembered. (image via irishtimes.com) Before the 1950s, most advertising was just copywriting paired with an image with little thought to the ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Ewing writes about luxury and performance automobiles. This article is more than 8 years old. Achim Anscheidt, design ...