How can designers build eco-conscious design practices? What exactly is design’s role in the climate movement? And what other communities and industries should we look to for the way forward? Right now, we are taking more than we give from the Earth. The way we’re working through the world’s resources is unsustainable and dangerous.

To solve big-scale design problems, Don Norman recommends engaging with the community that has these problems and leveraging existing creativity and experience. The principles of human-centered design have proven to be effective and productive. However, its approach is generally used in situations where professionals determine the needs of the target populations and then develop products and procedures to address the needs.

The term Design for the Environment refers to a series of techniques, principles, and methodologies used particularly in engineering, economics, technology, business, environment, and policy disciplines to incorporate environmental considerations into the design, process, and manufacturing of products and services. Quite simply, Design for the Environment (DfE) attempts to reduce…

Dieter Rams was born in Wiesbaden, Germany, in 1932. He was strongly influenced by the presence of his grandfather who was a carpenter. Rams’s early awards for carpentry led him to train as an architect, as Germany was rebuilt in the early 1950s. — Prompted by an eagle-eyed friend, Rams applied for a job at the German electrical products company, Braun, in 1955. He was recruited by Erwin and Artur Braun following the death of their father and his job was to modernize the interiors of the company that was launching revolutionary electrical products.

Our time and energy are increasingly used to manufacture demand, exploit populations, extract resources, fill landfills, pollute the air, promote colonization, and propel our planet’s sixth mass extinction. — We have helped to create comfortable, happy lives for some of our species and allowed harm to others; our designs, at times, serve to exclude, eliminate, and discriminate. Many design teachers and professionals perpetuate this ideology; the markets reward it; a tide of imitations and “likes” reinforces it. Encouraged in…

In this newly-released course, your instructor is none other than Don Norman, the Godfather of UX Design! You’ll learn how as a designer, you can apply human-centered design to solve complex global challenges. You’ll learn what 21st Century skills you need to make a difference in the world — and how to develop them. Each lesson will build upon another to expand your knowledge of human-centered design…

Dear Pearl, This letter is hard to understand. It contains my dreams and my ways of thinking, as a whole, you can call it my way of life. It will be rather confusing as it is difficult to write down exactly how I feel. Yet I want to write and…

Time look back on the best photography produced by the finest visual journalists in the industry. So much of the year’s news played out in the streets. Week after week, protesters poured onto the wide boulevards of Hong Kong, where the photographer Lam Yik Fei seemed to be everywhere. Brexit drew tens of thousands into the streets of London. …

Those who tell the stories rule society. — Ogilvy & Mather has created over $1,480,000,000 worth of advertising. Here, with all the dogmatism of brevity are 38 of the things we have learned. The most important decision. We have learned that the effect of your advertising on your sales depends more on this decision than on any other: how should you position your product? Should you position Schweppes as a soft drink — or as a mixer? Should you position Dove as a…