“If we are able to design our lives,” Richard Saul Wurman has written, “wouldn’t the best result—the best measure of success ultimately—be that every day is interesting?”

How do we discover what people need—before they know they need it?
Jane Fulton Suri, a partner with the design firm IDEO, is considered a pioneer in using psychology and ethnographic research as part of the …

How design lost its soul—and how to get it back.
Cameron Sinclair has become the face of humanitarian design. His groundbreaking (literally) group Architecture for Humanity goes into disaster areas and other places of need to …

The founder of TED talks about designing a life so that “every day is interesting.”
Richard Saul Wurman is best known for creating the TED Conference. But it is far from his only accomplishment. Wurman has …

Why the green movement has failed to inspire—and why it’s time to "think orange."
When it comes to changing behavior, we have fifty years of evidence that going negative doesn’t work. For over half a century, …