Emad Taha

Design thinking is a methodology which provides a solution-based approach to solving problems. It’s extremely useful when used to tackle complex problems that are ill-defined or unknown—because it serves to understand the human needs involved, reframe the problem in human-centric ways, createContinue reading “The 5 Stages in the Design Thinking Process”

Design Thinking is not an exclusive property of designers—all great innovators in literature, art, music, science, engineering, and business have practiced it. So, why call it Design Thinking? What’s special about Design Thinking is that designers’ work processes can helpContinue reading “What is Design Thinking and Why Is It So Popular?”

Featured Image: Unsplash/rawpixel Are you ready to kick start the New Year by letting go of all the lame excuses of why you can’t succeed in the highly competitive graphic design industry?To show you we have no empathy forContinue reading “7 Habits of Highly Successful Designers”

What is Good Design? Good design is a concept defined by industrial designer Dieter Rams’s principles: It makes a product useful and understandable, is innovative, aesthetic, unobtrusive, honest, long-lasting, thorough to the last detail, environmentally friendly, and involves asContinue reading “Good Design”

In 1959, Fortune published a “fascinating and brash” project that set out to discover the 100 best-designed products of the modern era. The list was compiled by Jay Doblin, the director of the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of TechnologyContinue reading “The greatest designs of modern times”

A lot of people believe that there is a magic secret behind a successful career. The truth is that the only secret on which everyone agrees is that you will have to be follow a simple set of habits.Continue reading “The 5 Secrets of Highly Successful Graphic Designers”

Rising high in the sky in the modern-day nation of Sudan is a plethora of pyramids. They mark the site of the ancient city Meroë, a UNESCO World Heritage site. The center of a powerful civilization, Meroë served as the capitalContinue reading “Rival to Egypt, the Nubian kingdom of Kush exuded power and gold”

Art of the 25th Dynasty from the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston For nearly three thousand years, a series of kingdoms flourished in the Sudanese Nile Valley—a region known in antiquity as Kush and by modernContinue reading “Ancient Nubia”