Looking at the mainstream practice of service design today, something is clearly not working. Over the past decade, service design has evolved into a commodified brand or product—one that has been ...

Your academic journey in design studies at DePauw will incorporate essential insights from photography, painting, drawing, sculpture and ceramics. It will also grant you access to all three gallery ...

Our first guest is Michael Bierut, the man behind some of the most iconic design work in recent history including Mastercard, Slack, Saks Fifth Avenue, and countless others. Now, as Bierut steps into ...

When people encounter something new, their brains start making sense of it immediately. Visual signals are read first, shaping impressions before words have a chance to catch up. We instinctively ...

When you design for people with disabilities, you're forced to think differently about every interaction, every flow, every piece of information. There’s a question that comes up often in ...

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Design reduces cognitive load before it builds persuasion: Good design removes friction by making understanding feel effortless. People need to understand something before they can be convinced by it.