Each year, our Innovation by Design Awards celebrate the most notable projects across the design world. And while there are many design awards offered across the industry—perhaps too many!—Innovation ...

As a prerequisite and foundation for production and manufacturing, the design of product manufacturing process plays a crucial role in improving production efficiency, controlling resource consumption ...

We’re excited to announce the judges of the 2025 Innovation by Design Awards. Innovation by Design honors the best projects and ideas across the design spectrum, as represented by our stellar group of ...

The global business landscape is undergoing a profound transformation. The era of treating sustainability as a peripheral ...

The current environmental issues we face are largely due to harmful economic practices. Designing sustainable products and services is crucial for reducing future emissions. Hence, adopting ...

“How do we select the right design partner?” “Where can I find evidence that design really works?” “Can design have any impact beyond products?” These are real questions that we’ve been asked by our ...

Most organizations can point to a moment when a bold idea broke through, but far fewer can explain how that kind of thinking happens consistently. Sustained innovation usually depends less on bursts ...

This story originally appeared in Yale Engineering magazine. When the Center for Engineering Innovation and Design (CEID) officially launched in 2012 — 10 years ago! — it opened a whole new world of ...

Parsons Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability (DESIS) Lab is an action research laboratory founded in 2009 at The New School in New York City. DESIS Lab works at the intersection of ...

Ten years ago, SSIR published a seminal article on using design thinking in social innovation. The concepts it outlined went on to become a major component of strategic changemaking by civil society ...

Design for America (DFA), the national social impact network started at Northwestern Engineering that uses design thinking to tackle social challenges, is now part of the Watson Foundation. The ...