An exhaustive collection of abbreviations, acronyms, regulations, and terms needed to successfully bring a medical device through development, past FDA approval, and ready for manufacturing.

There can be little dispute that artificial intelligence is an utterly transformative technology. One that is exercising its power in our lives daily by changing our relationships with machines and with one another and ourselves. It will soon be as ubiquitous in society as the internet, and its impact is slated to be as unshakeable as it is profound. 

Due to the pandemic, the Age of AI Acceleration is here whether mankind is ready or not. As product designers, it is our job to prepare AI to meet humanity. To do so, we must think long and hard about the world our innovations will be changing.

In our new series, ID Her: Women of Industrial Design, we will be profiling women of industrial design past and present because we believe visibility is a great way to light the path for women coming up in the industry and those considering a career in it. Where better to begin than with Speck's own--Dani Nguyen?

It appears men and women start out in pursuit of an industrial design degree about evenly, but only 19% of industrial designers are women. So, in four short years, what could possibly be happening to nearly half the female industrial design students to make them simply disappear?

In Speck Design's third blog of our White Space: Black Designers Needed series, we look at the compelling reasons design industries (especially product and industrial) need to install more black designers in their ranks. Not surprisingly, it's not just for the warm and fuzzy feeling they get from doing the right thing. It's because diversity pays in dividends.