Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner John Maeda kicked off Roadmap 2014 with some advice on the cultural barriers in large corporations — and thoughts on Apple’s “inevitable” design decline. Read more »
At the beginning of the year John Maeda left his position as the President of RISD and traveled West to Silicon Valley to help lead venture firm Kleiner Perkin’s new design… Read more »
The value of design for the tech industry is exploding. Designer Yves Béhar is selling a 75 stake in his design firm to a Chinese marketing group. Read more »
Kleiner Perkins has been restructuring itself, and part of that plan has been to emphasize the importance of product design, and work with up and coming young designers. Kleiner’s new Design… Read more »
Long gone are the days of megahertz madness. Now we live in a computing world in which we don’t ask “how much more can I get?” but rather “how much do… Read more »
Technology cycles have been on a tear for decades, with each chip iteration bringing more capabilities at lower prices. But less can be more in tech products–and design is the way… Read more »
Connected devices and the web have fundamentally changed the world’s relationship with design. But compared with other aspects of information technology, design can be much harder to quantify. Read more »