In my first week of studying industrial design in college one of my professors turned to the class, and while holding and pointing to a hammer, he said "form follows function." That was the first time ...

Wi-Fi routers have two interrelated problems. In order to work well, they need to be out in the open and unobstructed. But few of them are left out to be seen because most of them are butt-ugly.

Form follows function is the gist of the functionalist philosophy of design. The concept is that you probably can't use a computer monitor as a fork and vice versa. So, the design of something should ...

The perfect form factor doesn’t exist and it never will. It’s true, these devices look better and do more than they used to. The high-end multi-function cell phone has more processing power these days ...