For established carmakers, design is a very iterative process with decades of work to build from. Tesla Motors had no such history to work with, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing said the company’s chief designer.
Instead of trying to come up with a different service that would replace email, the team behind Mailbox decided to accept the fact that users are stuck in their email inboxes and try to improve the experience.
Having hundreds of millions of users makes it easy for companies to test every little feature they put out. But does such data-driven thinking compromise the design process? Instagram’s Kevin Systrom offers some thoughts on design and life inside Facebook.
The project’s founder, Scott Thomas, kicked off Wednesday’s proceedings at our Roadmap conference by demonstrating how new, freely available icons could help people from around the world communicate.
In a laughter filled talk, Beth Comstock, SVP and CMO at GE explained how the company is taking advantage of design to keep people relevant in the industrial internet.
Before designers and entrepreneurs spend all their savings making a product idea come to life, crowdfunding platforms like Indiegogo allow them to test the demand for their product and even develop new features
In the next generation of maps, Google’s map designers say the service will know enough about you that it can show you a map that has been customized for your location and specific needs
