For a designer, “ugliness” hasn’t historically been something to strive for. Beauty has largely been a no-brainer when it comes to what’s desirable, or what constitutes “good” design. Yet, culturally, ...

When a design doesn’t work, it often draws more attention to itself than when it works perfectly. A wobbly shopping cart, a flimsy potato peeler, a puzzling highway sign: These are common nuisances.

Born to two architects, Gadi Amit was already playing with design before he could form full sentences. But at 23, he decided to make it his vocation, so he went to design school. Today, Amit is the ...

One place where you can find inspiration for home makeovers is an Instagram account called Before&After Design. It's the site to look for different styles and cool interior ideas.

No simple checklist could ever fully define what we mean by good design, but when we look at examples of it, we see that some essential elements tend to show up consistently. As we described in the ...

When RECORD first launched the Good Design is Good Business Awards in 1997, attitudes toward the impact of design on profit were changing. According to the editors at the time, corporations and ...

Investing in design makes a fundamental difference in the performance of a company, a new study by consulting firm McKinsey has found. The study looked at the design capabilities of 300 publicly ...

Dezeen Wire: the Royal Institute of British Architects in London has published a report promoting the social and economic benefits of well-designed buildings. Entitled Good Design - it all adds up, ...

User experience (UX) design focuses on enhancing user satisfaction by improving how we interact with the websites, applications and devices in our lives. In other words, UX makes complex things easy ...

In 2025, building a website is pretty easy. Between the intuitive design interfaces and AI tools that can get you up and running after just a few questions, even the most novice of users can get a ...