Entrepreneurial organisations face huge challenges right now: rising costs of manufacturing in the Far East; unprecedented competition; increasing consumer expectations; and a shortage of credit to finance development and growth – to name but a...

Ryan Jacoby of IDEO gave a talk at NYU/Poly last year called Leading Innovation: Process Is No Substitute. It points to the tensions found in companies between “right-brainers” espousing design, design thinking and user-centered...

The Industrial Design profession’s national representative organisation in the UK has appealed for designers to band together a share a new ‘common interest’ platform. British Design Innovation (BDI) is concerned that product,...

The James Dyson Award 2012 is now open for entries. THE BRIEF: design something that solves a problem. THE PRIZE: £10,000 to you and £10,000 to your university department. ENTRY DEADLINE: 2 August 2012.

BDI member Engine Service Design commissioned a report based on their learnings over the last ten years that by designing services, they are often meeting an organisational challenge. The report explores how the subject for design has extended beyond...

In this BDI Opinion Piece, Julie McManus of London based Engine Service Design emphasises the importance of service design, (the design of a user’s experience, both physical and emotional) when it comes to getting the most out of a planned...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), one of the world’s top-rated universities, has announced free courses which can be studied and assessed completely online. An electronics course, beginning in March, will be the first prototype of...

Ben Peace is a project manager at BDI member C-Tech Innovation, the Industrial Design and technology transfer consultancy which collaborates with businesses to create successful and sustainable new products and processes. In this BDI Opinion piece,...

Inspired by the achievements of the British Olympic team, we imagine an ideal future in which the Industrial Design community and academia work together for mutual benefit. And although collaboration has flourished in some areas, we look at how BDI...

Many SMEs are unaware that, whether they are profit or loss making, they can claim corporation tax relief for research and development work that they carry out either on their own behalf or on behalf of clients. In this BDI Opinion Piece, William...