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Decoding Design
Decoding Design focuses on product, process and industrial design and architecture and how that approach can be applied to systems and infrastructure.
Reena Jana
Reena Jana
Contributing Editor
Reena Jana has written for the New York Times, Wired, Harvard Business Review online, Fast Company, Architectural Record, Artforum, Time Out New York, Harper's Bazaar, and GQ. Previously, she was the innovation department editor at BusinessWeek. She holds degrees from Columbia University and Barnard College.
Reena Jana
Reena occasionally consults with companies, and when her writing discusses a corporation or other organization with which she has worked, she will disclose this fact. Reena does not hold any investments in the companies she covers.
She writes for SmartPlanet and is not an employee of CBS.
Sun Joo Kim
Sun Joo Kim
Contributing Editor
Sun Joo Kim is an architect and creative consultant based in Boston. Her projects include design and master planning of museums, public institutions, hospitals, and university buildings across the U.S. She holds a degree from Carnegie Mellon University and is a member of the U.S. Green Building Council.
Sun Joo Kim
Sun Joo is an independent architectural designer who contracts with design firms. She does not hold any investments in the companies she covers.
She writes for SmartPlanet and is not an employee of CBS.
Beth Carter
Beth Carter
Contributing Editor
Beth Carter is a freelance journalist based in New York City. She has worked for Catalyst magazine, the New York Times Syndicate, BBC Travel and Wired. She holds degrees from the University of Oregon and New York University.
Beth Carter
Beth does not have financial holdings that would influence how or what she covers in her writing.
She writes for SmartPlanet and is not an employee of CBS.
Mary Catherine O'Connor
Mary Catherine O'Connor
Contributing Editor
Mary Catherine O'Connor has written for Fast Company, Wired, Outside, Entrepreneur, Earth2Tech, Earth Island Journal and The Bold Italic. She is based in San Francisco.
Mary Catherine O'Connor
Mary Catherine has written white papers and marketing material for technology companies and will not write about companies with which is actively engaged. She will disclose any instances in which her work mentions companies for which she has worked. Mary Catherine does not hold any investments in the companies that she covers.
She writes for SmartPlanet and is not an employee of CBS.
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How Marriott is designing a smarter business hotel
With some help from Steelcase, the hotel and resort company is redefining hotels as workspaces.
1 | September 30, 2012 8:20pm |
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Sensory systems and innovative design
Designer Tom Dixon's interesting twist on the topic of sound and the design of everyday objects.
September 30, 2012 6:04pm |
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Autographer: another way to parse piles of visual data
The Autographer passively records the events of the day, building up a photographic crumb trail from your point of view.
1 | September 28, 2012 3:00am |
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In Brooklyn, exporting U.S.-made goods to China
How did Watermark Designs flip the manufacturing and exporting script?
1 | September 27, 2012 4:49am |
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The vanishing briefcase
Books and newspapers aren't the only things disappearing because of electronic media.
1 | September 24, 2012 6:22pm |
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Kickstarter kicks renderings to the curb
The fundraising platform redesigns its guidelines for hardware and product design projects.
6 | September 23, 2012 7:42pm |
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Did Apple steal the Swiss Federal Railways clock design?
The rail company says it will happily accept a license agreement and compensation from Apple for using its clock design in the iOS 6 software.
2 | September 22, 2012 5:02pm |
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Design drivers for safe mobile applications
Can platform developers design a safe way to live (as in, not die) with cars and smartphones?
3 | September 20, 2012 3:00am |
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In Amsterdam, world's first mobile 3D printing pavilion
Architects DUS design a pavilion that can print pavilions.
September 19, 2012 9:03pm |
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Clinton Global Initiative's Annual Meeting to focus on design
A major event that world leaders, CEOs, movie stars, and both U.S. Presidential candidates will attend next week promises to use design thinking to solve large-scale humanitarian problems.
1 | September 19, 2012 7:24pm |
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Google pictures a better photo-tweaking tool with Snapseed
Snapseed offers more powerful editing tools than Instagram, which will up the ante (and lower the bar) for posting amazing photographs on Google+, compared to Facebook.
1 | September 18, 2012 3:00am |
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Keeping babies safe with racecar technology
What makes the Maxi-Cosi Prezi such a super safe carseat?
2 | September 17, 2012 6:23pm |
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Hip offices: creative centers or 'corporate kindergartens'?
With open-plan seating, brightly hued walls, slides, and bean bag chairs, today's "cool" workplaces symbolize innovation. Or are they generic and manipulative, and belittling of creativity?
5 | September 17, 2012 3:36am |
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iPhone 5 adds waste to the e-waste problem
The iPhone 5's "Lightening port" power and data connector will require Apple-devoted hordes to buy adapters, at best, or replace accessories such as speakers, at worst.
10 | September 14, 2012 3:00am |
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Britain's worst building of 2012
The snarky votes are in and the restoration of the Cutty Sark has won this year's Carbuncle Cup.
2 | September 13, 2012 9:10pm |
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Architecture offices take to the street
Storefront architecture offices provide a window into the profession.
1 | September 12, 2012 8:02pm |
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Will small cars with big style seduce U.S. drivers?
Designers at American automakers are increasingly paying attention to global aesthetic trends. Has the time come to lure U.S. drivers used to big vehicles toward tinier, more stylish ones?
10 | September 12, 2012 3:45am |
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Focal Point intends to reinvent the hospital
Would you go to your local hospital to get your shopping done? How about for a pick-up basketball game? Focal Point Community Campus wants to be a community hub -- but not just because it's a...
3 | September 12, 2012 3:02am |
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Logitech introduces genius waterproof keyboard
For all the accident prone computer users out there, Logitech has come up with a waterproof keyboard to ease (some) of your multi-tasking pain.
2 | September 12, 2012 3:00am |
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What drives the 'starchitect' Bjarke Ingels?
Optimism, playfulness, a high regard for relaxed storytelling, and a respect for clients' constraints all motivate one of today's most ambitious and respected design stars.
1 | September 10, 2012 9:00pm |