Brother Industries factory, Shenzhen, 2005
These women do not just assemble multi-function office printers in China. They also inspect IT products for defects, and redesign them where necessary.
Picture: Ray Hatley

Design

16 April 2007 | IT Week

Happy birthday, Apple II

Thirty years ago, product design and graphics helped the Apple II outsell Commodore’s PET, and paved the way for today's obsession with computer games

17 December 2006 | Design Management Review

Forecasting the Frontiers of Design

Measures of design effectiveness have become more and more subjective. It's time to call a halt 364kB

29 October 2006 | Blueprint

Al Gore and the future politics of climate change

Review of Davis Guggenheim’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth

27 October 2006 | IT Week

How IT will cook up a feast for the eyes

Trends in computing mean developers will soon have to add visual literacy to their skills

24 September 2006 | IT Week

Smarty-pants ideas to make work better

Wearable IT is starting to have an impact in sport and may soon make a significant improvement to the lives of thousands of workers

11 September 2006 | IT Week

Dress smarter for a better life

Fashionistas and technologists are starting to develop off-the-peg solutions to everyday problems

Autumn 2006 | 10 years on: Design Management Journal, 1996

The Battle for the Living Room

The illusion of consumer sovereignty on the Web has been alive and well for a full decade 2MB

11 August 2006 | New Design

Innovation: on the horizon

Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have often praised creativity, but the post-Blair era promises to see more pleas for innovation. In the past, too many designers were fooled by the false promise of Oasis in No 10. Now, whoever wins the next election, they don't need to be so credulous again

24 July 2006 | Three Layer Cake

Interview on "Meaningful Consumption"

Meaning is to be found in what you do, not what you buy, own or use

March 2006 | website of the Design Council

About trends

Everything you wanted to know about trend forecasting, but were afraid to ask

Winter 2005 | Design Indaba, South Africa

Take design advantage

Would you bet money on South Africa getting ahead in the global design game? What is it that really holds the Third World back?

December 2005 | exclusive to Woudhuysen.com

Why do research? The questions for design

It is not Britain's science, engineering and technology 'base' or high educational standards that receive the government's attention, but knowledge transfer.

8 August 2005 | IT Week

The new service design

The design critic John Thackara’s new book highlights much of the coming agenda for IT in services.

July 2005 | From the Archives: Designers' Journal, July 1985

Older – but no wiser

For years after 1974, Victor Papanek's Design for the real world was a bible for ethically-minded designers. But it was always about as credible as the Bible itself 28kB

Summer 2005 | Website of PARK

Where have all the great leaders in design gone?

Raymond Loewy, Saul Bass, Paul Rand or George Nelson – such giants are missing.

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