Author Archives: 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, create numerous ideas in brainstorming sessions and adopt a hands-on approach to prototyping and testing. When you know how to applyContinue 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 help us systematically extract, teach, learn and apply these human-centered techniques to solve problems in a creativeContinue 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 for your situation, we’ve laid out the 7 habits of some highly successful designers. Yes, we areContinue 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 as little design as possible. Designers strive for good design. “You cannot understand good design if youContinue 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 Technology (IIT), based on a survey sent out to 100 of the era’s top designers, architects, andContinue reading “The greatest designs of modern times”

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 capital city of Kush whose robust culture thrived for centuries. Their grand architecture and works of artContinue 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 modern scholars as Nubia. Ancient Nubian trade networks reached across the Mediterranean to Greece and Rome and far intoContinue reading “Ancient Nubia”

How do the world’s most accomplished designers come up with fresh ideas day in and day out? Some draw inspiration from chefs. Others put rookies on their team. Still others steal their ideas from clients. Here, we asked 30 experts spanning architecture, product design, UX, academia, and medicine, to share their biggest design secrets. BEContinue reading “Want to be a great designer? Steal these 30 secrets from the world’s top experts”

Collage art is a delightful way to express yourself through a blend of colour, cherished images, and boundless creativity. This artistic medium allows people to transform their favourite visuals from pop culture into unique masterpieces. The possibilities with collage art are endless, offering new techniques and styles to explore each time. A Brief History ofContinue reading “Exploring the Vibrant World of Collage Art”