TED Talks
Paul Bennett: Design is in the details
Showing a series of inspiring, unusual and playful products, British branding and design guru Paul Bennett explains that design doesn't have to be about grand gestures, but can solve small, universal and overlooked problems.
TED Talks
Ross Lovegrove: Organic design, inspired by nature
Designer Ross Lovegrove expounds his philosophy of "fat-free" design and offers insight into several of his extraordinary products, including the Ty Nant water bottle and the Go chair.
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R.A. Mashelkar: Breakthrough designs for ultra-low-cost products
Engineer RA Mashelkar shares three stories of ultra-low-cost design from India that use bottom-up rethinking, and some clever engineering, to bring expensive products (cars, prosthetics) into the realm of the possible for everyone.
Curated Video
American Industrial Design: Design in a Nutshell (5/6)
From the ashes of the Great Depression, American Industrial Designers brought us the age of mass consumption with their "utilitarian art": sleek, sophisticated and beautiful objects that everyone wanted to own. (Part 5 of 6) Playlist...
The March of Time
1943: WWII INDUSTRY: Jack & Heintz Precision Industries designer & founder Ralph Heintz looking over blueprint plans, putting plans into 'Post-War Plans' combination lock file, CU turning lock.
MOT 1943: WWII INDUSTRY: Jack & Heintz Precision Industries designer & founder Ralph Heintz looking over blueprint plans, putting plans into 'Post-War Plans' combination lock file, CU turning lock.
Curated Video
How did Detroit Become the Motor City? | Industrial Geography | Crash Course Geography
From shipping routes to airplane traffic to even the Internet, transportation planning is all about designing optimal transportation networks to move goods, information, and people around the globe. Today, we're going to discuss...
Crash Course
The Industrial Revolution: Crash Course History of Science
You probably know some of the signs of industrialization in the nineteenth century: Trains connected cities, symbolizing progress. But they also brought about the destruction of rural lands, divisions between social classes, and rapid...
Curated Video
Biomedical & Industrial Engineering: Crash Course Engineering #6
We’ve discussed the four main branches of engineering but there are so many other fields doing important work, so today we’re going to explore a few of them. In this episode we’ll explore some of the history and fundamentals of...
TED Talks
Niels Diffrient: Rethinking the way we sit down
Design legend Niels Diffrient talks about his life in industrial design (and the reason he became a designer instead of a jet pilot). He details his quest to completely rethink the office chair starting from one fundamental data set: the...
Espresso Media
Mighty Sea Crane: Engineering and Design in the Maritime Industry
Mighty Sea Crane part 1/8: This video provides a glimpse into the world of Gusto MSC, one of the oldest offshore design and engineering companies in the Netherlands. Specializing in the construction of nautical cranes integrated into...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Don Buckley - Design Thinking
Don Buckley has transformed learning spaces so they work for teachers and students and not just architects, he has transformed textbooks so that they work for students and teachers and not just publishers, and transformed new media...
Curated Video
Organizational Design: Understanding Span of Control, Hierarchy, Delegation, Centralization and Decentralization
The video discusses the concept of organizational design and its various components such as job design, hierarchy, span of control, delegation, and centralization/decentralization. The speaker explains the theoretical advantages and...
Curated Video
The Digital Thread_ Stitching Together the Next Industrial Revolution
Along the path from design to manufacture, a lot of information gets passed from computer to computer and machine to machine. Figuring out how a product’s design and manufacturing information can be authored, exchanged and processed...
Packt
UX Design for Web Developers (Video 24)
User experience (UX) design is a theoretical understanding of how users interact with websites. The major challenge developers building a company website face is finding the right balance that fulfills the objectives of the company as...
Packt
Figma for UIUX Master Web Design in Figma - Preparing the Design for Coding
This video demonstrates preparing the design for coding. This clip is from the chapter "Discover How the Design Gets Transformed to the Live Version" of the series "Figma for UI/UX: Master Web Design in Figma".This section focuses on...
The Wall Street Journal
Nicole McLaughlin on Sustainability in Design
Designer Nicole McLaughlin talks about the future of upcycling in fashion and why she's taking a hands-on approach to teaching the next generation of designers about the importance of sustainability.
Curated Video
Meet The Fuse School Design Team
Meet the fuseSchool design team. Talented in design, animation, science communication, motion graphics and coming from all over the world, they're enthusiastic and working hard to provide engaging and free education in the STEM subjects...
TED Talks
Scott Summit: Beautiful artificial limbs
Prosthetics can't replicate the look and feel of lost limbs but they can carry a lot of personality. Designer Scott Summit shows 3D-printed, individually designed prosthetic legs that are unabashedly artificial and completely personal --...
TED Talks
Matthew Carter: My life in typefaces
Pick up a book, magazine or screen, and more than likely you'll come across some typography designed by Matthew Carter. In this charming talk, the man behind typefaces such as Verdana, Georgia and Bell Centennial (designed just for phone...
TED Talks
Burt Rutan: The real future of space exploration
In this passionate talk, legendary spacecraft designer Burt Rutan lambasts the US government-funded space program for stagnating and asks entrepreneurs to pick up where NASA has left off.
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Bastian Schaefer: A 3D-printed jumbo jet?
Designer Bastian Schaefer shows off a speculative design for the future of jet planes, with a skeleton inspired by strong, flexible, natural forms and by the needs of the world's, ahem, growing population. Imagine an airplane that's full...
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Wolfgang Kessling: How to air-condition outdoor spaces
During the hot summer months, watching an outdoor sports match or concert can be tantamount to baking uncomfortably in the sun -- but it doesn't have to be. At the TEDxSummit in Doha, physicist Wolfgang Kessling reveals sustainable...
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Chris Bangle: Great cars are great art
American designer Chris Bangle explains his philosophy that car design is an art form in its own right, with an entertaining -- and ultimately moving -- account of the BMW Group's Deep Blue project, intended to create the SUV of the future.
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TED: Shape-shifting tech will change work as we know it | Sean Follmer
What will the world look like when we move beyond the keyboard and mouse? Interaction designer Sean Follmer is building a future with machines that bring information to life under your fingers as you work with it. In this talk, check out...