You’ve seen them before. Pop-ups with tiny X’s that make a window hard to close. Buttons and toggles in permissions boxes that are so confusing it’s difficult to understand what you’re agreeing to.

You may not be familiar with the term “dark patterns” but the manipulative design phenomenon is ubiquitous in the apps and services we use every day. Dark patterns nudge consumers to make choices that ...

Today's theme: Line Designs. These are evolving in many fields across Japan, from the traditional art of calligraphy to furniture, and architecture. Explore a truly diverse world of line designs. I ...

In the design of manual (unpaced) production lines, there are a number of issues to be considered if performance is to be improved. The operators on each station along the line work at different rates ...