NASA
Speaking in Phases
Hear from deep space. Pupils learn how satellites transfer information back to Earth. They learn about three different ways to modulate radio waves and how a satellite sends information with only 0s and 1s. Using sound, class members...
NASA
From Smoke Signals to Cell Phones: Tracing How Technologies Evolve
Explore the science of space exploration. Pupils consider technological advances in propulsion, communication, power, navigation, and imaging. They select one of these areas and create a timeline of historical progress that contributed...
DOGO Media
Dogo News: Designer Transforms Garbage Into Glamorous Outfits
Read about a fashion designer who makes clothing from garbage. Includes video.
PBS
Pbs Online News Hour: The Stuff of Life: u.s. Design 1975 2000
PBS profiles the exhibit at the Denver Art Museum about how design is relevant in our society. There are interviews, images, and video--enough for developing your own lesson plan.
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Engineering for Change: Necessary Trade Offs When Co Designing New Technology
The co-design of new technology with communities has benefits and trade-offs. Engineers Without Borders Australia describe a co-design project in rural Cambodia that they participated in. The goal was to design assistive technologies...
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Interaction Design Foundation: 5 Stages in the Design Thinking Process
Understanding the five stages of Design Thinking will empower anyone to apply the Design Thinking methods in order to solve complex problems that occur around us. The article stresses that design thinking is by its nature non-linear and...
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Cad Crowd: How Do Engineers Evaluate Different Design Ideas?
Explains all the things that must be taken into consideration when engineers evaluate the soundness and viability of a particular design.
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Synthesis Engineering Services: Optimizing the Design Process
This article discusses the design process from the concept phase to the production phase and what's involved in accomplishing this in the shortest possible time with the least cost.
Smithsonian Institution
Tween Tribune: Obama Designates Three New National Monuments
Read about the designation of new national monuments.
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Smashing Magazine: Product Design Principles: How Does Your Product Stack Up?
The purpose of this article is to answer the question, "What do the greatest product designers consider to be the most important product design principles, and how can we apply them to our products?" In this article, you will learn six...
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Ergonomics4 Schools: The Learning Zone: Product Design
There's a lot more to product design than simply making something look good! A successful product is one that people find easy to use, it does the things that they want it to do, they like to use it and the look of it is appealing to...
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Beanz: How We Designed a School Robot
Learn how an all girls high school robotics team designed then built a robot to compete in competitions.
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Ties Magazine: Safe Design Takes on Risk
A printable article that reviews an art exhibit at the MoMA in New York. The article highlights a few of the product designs from the exhibit that each deal with the idea of safety. There is also a link to the online exhibit if you'd...
Utah State University
Utah State University: Optimization, an Important Stage of Engineering Design
Teaching middle and high school students how to weigh constraints and criteria against various design solutions in order to select the best possible solution is an important skill necessary for engineering, as well as for life. The...
American Institute of Biological Sciences
Action Bioscience: Intelligent Design?
Immerse yourself in evidence supporting and rejecting the ideas of intelligent design.
Free Management Library
Map: Key Concepts in Design of Organization
Defines organizational design and describes the key concepts. Provides links to more information.
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Interaction Design Foundation: The Seven Principles of Universal Design
It can be easy to forget that users don't come in a standard format when designing products. We're getting better at catering for different personas or demographics but industry still lags a long way behind design that is accessible to...
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Teecom: What Do We Mean by "Flexibility" in Design?
A technology consultant discusses what "flexibility" means in the context of design. He tries to understand what a client means when they say they want a flexible design. His goal is to come up with a design that focuses on the user. The...
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Interaction Design Foundation: Complex Socio Technical Systems
Complex socio-technical systems are intricate societal and global problems: challenges where designers strive to define human problems, understand the far-reaching implications of these and address them carefully. As they are hard to...
University of Washington
World Wide Access: Accessible Web Design
A brochure from the University of Washington on accessible Web design for people with disabilities. Includes general page design, graphical features, special features, and a Web pages test.
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Oxo: Behind the Design of the New Oxo Pop Containers
This article describes the process by which an engineer at OXO looked at design, size, and variety when he redesigned OXO's line of POP containers.
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Joining Dots: Why Design Means Compromise
In this blog article, the author talks about some of the trade-offs that must occur during the software design process with reference to an interview with Bill Buxton who was Principle Researcher at Microsoft Research at the time....
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Wizhat: How to Design a Great Web Site
Information on Web designing. Includes learning HTML, write what you're good at, color and design are important, and using tables. Includes example pages of techniques.
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