Welcome to the final installment of Macworld’s Design Basics series. So far, we’ve covered the importance of proximity (placing related information closer together to form a visual framework), ...

Some rooms are meticulously put together yet somehow still look and feel flat, and they often suffer from the same problem: they haven't considered how critical contrast in interior design is.

Few schools of thought have had more impact on how I run a business than dynamic work design. The concept was pioneered by friends of mine at MIT, Donald Kieffer and Nelson Repenning. The two spent ...