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.

The world is full of many, many, many AWFUL designs. In fact, bad designs happen so often that there's an entire subreddit dedicated to it! And while the images in r/CrappyDesign are always good for a ...

Being a designer – whether it's interior, graphic, advertising, or public space – takes a lot of creativity and skill. Sure, lots of people are good at their jobs, but only a few might be geniuses.

In support of this month's theme on electrical design, the EC&M editorial team, our Code consultants, and contributing authors worked long and hard to produce some enlightening articles on this topic.

It's one of the great dilemmas for a designer in any field: you take on a project with a list of client directives that will surely result in a design disaster. Your client thinks he knows best, but ...

Badly drawn, derivative, and forgettable logos. Poorly designed websites and mobile apps. Formulaic products with no flair or originality. If you’re a business, bad design hurts — from uninspiring ...

It’s not easy to claim the top spot in the worldwide smartphone market. You can’t do it without offering consumers something compelling and that starts with great design. According to Strategy ...

This Nov. 8, even if you manage to be registered in time and have the right identification, there is something else that could stop you from exercising your right to vote. The ballot. Specifically, ...