In my first week of studying industrial design in college one of my professors turned to the class, and while holding and pointing to a hammer, he said "form follows function." That was the first time ...

Hot rodding is a dynamic hobby. It's continually changing. What's' hot today is luke warm tomorrow … and we won't discuss the day after. But one element of hot rodding remains constant. The hot rodder ...

It isn't right to be amused by others' pain or misfortune. Even so, there seems to be some schadenfreude in the media about Apple employees bashing into the nearly invisible glass dividers in their ...

A list of the 12 worst government Web sites criticized those sites mostly for their design. Readers say content and functionality are better criteria. What do you look for in a Web site? Is the site’s ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Biologists long have known that both the appearance of organisms and their inner workings are shaped by evolution. But do the same genetic mechanisms underlie changes in form and ...

You can’t make a good first impression a second time. Humans are visual by nature, and what we see plays an important role in both our private lives and in business. In the digital-first era, we ...

David Priest is an award-winning writer and editor who formerly covered home security for CNET. Clunky design, simplistic features and inconsistencies in its basic functions hurt what might've been a ...