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How to influence human behaviour and other lessons in this game-like online course

Design News > Design Thinking

EdTech startup 42courses.com collaborates with Ogilvy to launch an online course in Behavioural Economics from renowned ad man and TED speaker Rory Sutherland. >

21 Apr 16
OSCAR: Challenging the divide between human and machine

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

Dutch filmmaker and visual artist Floris Kaayk’s series of interconnected videos tells the sci-fi story of OSCAR, a modular life form. >

20 Apr 16
Sorry to the other metropoles, but London is the design capital of the world

Q&A > Design Thinking

Future London Academy bring together design enthusiasts, students and professionals from everywhere in the world to learn from their design-immersive courses. >

15 Apr 16
NeuroLife: A chip that gives movement back to the paralysed

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

Researchers have created a prototype for a medical device that allows a paralysed person to perform basic tasks. >

15 Apr 16
Lessons in design from Michael Wolff

Inside View > Design Thinking

A designer’s strength lies in their potential to bring noticing, observation and imagination to the world, according to branding legend Michael Wolff. >

13 Apr 16
Skin: The next step in wearable tech

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

SkinHaptics is a new innovation that sees the palm of your hand as the next display surface for wearable tech. >

12 Apr 16
Smart thermometer crowdsources info for real-time health tracking

Design News > Creative Economy / Design Thinking

Kinsa’s Smart Thermometer is able to help individuals and communities map diseases before they spread. >

11 Apr 16
New strategies to improve the consumer experience

Design News > Creative Economy / Design Thinking

The needs of consumers are ever-changing and designers will need to respond. >

8 Apr 16
3D-printed robots are able to move immediately after printing

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

MIT researchers developed a way to print both liquids and solids, building a robot faster and with immediate results. >

8 Apr 16
Harnessing creativity in the workplace

Design News > Design Thinking

Creativity on demand: Some lessons in how to channel your creative energy in a more productive way. >

6 Apr 16
MakeRight: Involving prisoners in anti-crime design

Inside View > Design Thinking / Product Design

MakeRight is an initiative that gets prisoners to help manufacture “theft-proof” bags that consider the user and the abuser and designs out the crime. >

5 Apr 16
Windows and solar panels could one day be made of transparent wood

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

Mass produced transparent wood material could be used in windows, solar panels and buildings. >

5 Apr 16
A 100 per cent biodegradable fungi dress

Design News > Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Neffa’s latest creation, MycoTEX explores the future of fashion with living materials. >

5 Apr 16
Janice Wang: How sound affects our taste perception

Video Interviews > Design Thinking / Food Design

Oxford student Janice Wang creates multisensory experiences across multiple disciplines and ideas. >

4 Apr 16
Researchers make strides towards self-cleaning textiles

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

Textiles that self-clean when exposed to light could be well on the way, but don’t throw out the washing machine yet. >

1 Apr 16
Notes on Blindness: A virtual reality experience

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Film & Animation

“Notes on Blindness: Into Darkness” is a virtual reality film created from the audio diaries theologian John Hull kept as he went blind. >

23 Mar 16
This is what it's like to read with dyslexia

Design News > Design Activism / Design Thinking / Interaction Design

Victor Widell’s interactive blog post lets the viewer experience what it’s like to be dyslexic. >

9 Mar 16
Sideways driving with Goodyear’s latest concept tyre

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

International tyre company Goodyear has revealed the spherical-shaped, smart tyre of the future. >

8 Mar 16
Teledisko: The 60s nightlife experience in a phone booth

Design News > Design Thinking

Teledisko is a phone booth upcycled into the world’s smallest nightclub. >

3 Mar 16
Six things you might not know about Airbnb and its co-founder Joe Gebbia

Design News > Creative Economy / Design Thinking

Airbnb's co-founder Joe Gebbia will be speaking at Design Indaba 2017. Here are some things you might not know about this peer-to-peer home-rental start up. >

3 Mar 16
NASA invites public to send art to space

Design News > Art & Photography / Design Thinking

NASA’s upcoming mission to a near-Earth asteroid will take with it artworks submitted by explorers from around the world. >

2 Mar 16
MIT researchers reveal world's thinnest solar cell

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

A team at MIT have created an ultra-thin solar cell that could open up new applications for solar power in the long term. >

1 Mar 16
Do The Green Thing urges the film industry to be more environmentally conscious

Design News > Design Activism / Design Thinking

Do The Green Thing relaunches with an attack on Hollywood screenwriters and a few suggestions for how films could be sending a greener message to their viewers. >

29 Feb 16
Kiro'o Games to release first African-inspired action-RPG

Design News > Design Thinking / Graphic Design & Illustration

Cameroonian startup Kiro'o Games is set to release the first PC game inspired by African mythology. >

29 Feb 16

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