In a testament to the power of intuitive design, Steve Jobs, the iconic co-founder of Apple, sketched the original Macintosh ...

The longevity of Jobs’ 10-minute design session suggests the approach worked. The calculator survived nearly two decades of Mac OS updates, outlasting many more elaborate interface elements. What ...

And why letting people come up with their own ideas, and actually try those ideas, is almost always the best approach.

A year after Steve Jobs’ passing, the yacht he had been working on with famed French designer Philippe Starck finally made it out to sea. Venus is a beautiful ship that conforms to all of Steve Jobs’ ...

Steve Jobs, who died Wednesday at the age of 56, was obsessed with computers from an early age. In 1975, when he was 20, Jobs was part of the Homebrew Computer Club — a group of early computer ...

Ettore Sottsass is quoted as saying, “When Charles Eames designed his chair, he was not designing a chair, but a way of sitting; that is to say he was not designing for a function, but designing a ...

The discussion of whether Steve Jobs could revitalize the auto industry by working with GM on an iCar (Steve Jobs For President. Of GM?) has been lively. But the bottom line question remains: What ...

In 1982, a 21-year-old Chris Espinosa faced a familiar challenge in software design: satisfying Steve Jobs’ exacting eye. Jobs had been critiquing Espinosa’s Macintosh calculator interface for days, ...