BYU Design Review

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 Feb 2, 2026
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The BYU Design Review is a collection of short design-related editorials, interviews, product reviews, and commentaries on design techniques. Content focuses on traditional applications of engineering design but also addresses contemporary examples of design in the profession, design in our lives, and design in the world.

Episode Date
Eli Whitney and Interchangeable Parts
Jul 13, 2026
Bow Design: Whatever Does Float a Boat?
Jul 06, 2026
Good Design: RC Cooler (4th of July Edition)
Jun 30, 2026
Why Most Designers Prefer Aluminum Prototyping
Jun 22, 2026
The Reason for Round Windows: The De Havilland Comet
Jun 15, 2026
Swiss Machining: The Technology Behind the World's Smallest Watches
Jun 10, 2026
Mathematics and Engineering Design
Jun 08, 2026
What Does It Mean to be New
Jun 01, 2026
Meeting the Pianist’s Expectations: The Grand Piano Action Ratio
May 25, 2026
Burt Rutan: A Legacy of Novel Design
May 18, 2026
Beyond the Assembly Line: Why Automation and Robots Replace Tasks, Not Designers
May 11, 2026
May the 4th: Design of the X-Wing
May 04, 2026
Engineering Design in Artemis II
Apr 29, 2026
Explained: Design Challenges of Hypersonic Missiles
Apr 27, 2026
Making the Most of Your Summer
Apr 20, 2026
Technical Writing: The Notorious Debacle of Citation Styles
Apr 15, 2026
Explained: Haptic Vibrations for Phone Notifications
Apr 13, 2026
The PlayPump: Lessons Learned from a Design Failure 
Apr 08, 2026
Preparing for Design Reviews
Apr 07, 2026
A Serious Approach to Engineering Memes
Apr 01, 2026
The Timeless Appeal of Cadbury Mini Eggs
Mar 31, 2026
Ralph Ziman's Weapons of Mass Production
Mar 26, 2026
Celebrate Women’s History Month
Mar 18, 2026
Explained: How Touchscreens Work
Mar 16, 2026
Embracing the Call to Serve
Mar 13, 2026
The New World’s Tallest Roller Coaster: Tourism Inspired Engineering in Saudi Arabia
Mar 12, 2026
Designing a Better Pie
Mar 11, 2026
The Confederation Bridge
Mar 11, 2026
Alberto Santos-Dumont: The Father of Aviation?
Mar 10, 2026
Fordlandia: The Failed Design of an Industrial Utopia
Mar 09, 2026
Rudolf Diesel’s Ubiquitous Legacy
Mar 09, 2026
Design of the ISS
Mar 05, 2026
Sir Richard Taylor: A Knight and a Designer
Mar 05, 2026
Shinkansen: The Bullet Train
Mar 05, 2026
Thérèse Kirongozi: Robotic Traffic Controllers
Mar 05, 2026
What Does It Take to Be an International Designer?
Mar 05, 2026
Snowflake Design
Feb 25, 2026
The Worst Airport Designs
Feb 23, 2026
The Return of the Atom
Feb 18, 2026
Crosswalks: Improving Safety through Urban Design
Feb 16, 2026
How Dating Apps Are Designed
Feb 11, 2026
The Best Airport Designs
Feb 09, 2026
Project Hail Mary Spoiler-Free Review – The Perfect Novel for Engineers
Feb 04, 2026
Groundhog Day and Lessons for Designers
Feb 03, 2026
Good Checklist Design from The Checklist Manifesto
Jan 28, 2026
The Design of Spires and Vertical Architecture
Jan 26, 2026
Why All Creative People Should Read Books
Jan 22, 2026
Book Review: Thinking, Fast and Slow
Jan 19, 2026
Exploring “The Design of Everyday Things”
Jan 14, 2026
Good Book Cover Design: Judging a Book by its Cover
Jan 12, 2026
Design Principles in the Creation of Rock Climbing Routes
Jan 07, 2026
Most Read Articles of 2025
Jan 05, 2026
2025: Year in Review
Jan 01, 2026
Writing Professional Articles: Know Your Audience
Dec 29, 2025
Lessons Learned From Soichiro Honda
Dec 23, 2025
Theory of Change: A Path to Positive Social Impact for Engineers
Dec 17, 2025
Design in Christmas Movies: A Christmas Carol
Dec 15, 2025
Empathy in Technical Communication: What? Why? How?
Dec 10, 2025
Good Design: Giving Machines
Dec 08, 2025
A Christmas Story: Good Design Features in Christmas Movies
Dec 03, 2025
Engineering Design in Formula 1
Dec 02, 2025
Design in Onshape
Nov 26, 2025
Gift Ideas for Design Engineers 2025
Nov 24, 2025
Good Design: Cooking Moist Turkey
Nov 19, 2025
Good Zipper Design
Nov 18, 2025
Skeuomorphs: Relics of the Past
Nov 12, 2025
Snoopy: Lasting Character Design
Nov 10, 2025
Explained: How to Write and Format a Memo
Nov 05, 2025
Shuffle, Deal, Design: Principles from Card Games
Nov 03, 2025
More Than a Profile: LinkedIn Tactics that Get Engineers Connected & Hired
Oct 29, 2025
Design Principles Learned From Minecraft
Oct 27, 2025
The Evolution of Halloween’s Favorite Tradition
Oct 22, 2025
Good Design: Mission Belt v Groove Belt
Oct 21, 2025
Mapping Rick Rubin's "The Creative Act" to Engineering Design 
Oct 16, 2025
Good Design: College Football Edition
Oct 13, 2025
From Chaos to Clarity: Modular Design in Programming
Oct 08, 2025
Writing Professional Articles: The Little Things That Count
Oct 06, 2025
Exploring the Hype Cycle of AI
Sep 29, 2025
Using AI to Study
Sep 22, 2025
Good Design from the Summer of 2025
Sep 15, 2025
Writing Professional Articles: Developing Your Writing
Sep 08, 2025
Clustering in Design Thinking: Making Sense of Empathy Data
Sep 01, 2025
A Design-Inspired Book Review of Elon Musk
Aug 27, 2025
Refining the Design: Nintendo Switch 2
Aug 25, 2025
Why Every Design Should Start with a Question, Not a Solution
Aug 20, 2025
How to Create a Design Portfolio That Drastically Improves Your Job Prospects
Aug 18, 2025
Wabi-sabi vs Kaizen
Aug 13, 2025
The Evolution of Roller Coaster Design
Aug 11, 2025
Small but Mighty? Mini PCs: A Modern Design Approach to Computers
Aug 06, 2025
How Might We… Craft Better HMW Statements?
Aug 04, 2025
Explained: Engineering Photography
Jul 28, 2025
Stanley v Owala: The Big Bottle Debate
Jul 21, 2025
Paperclips, Thanos, and the Perils of Overfitting
Jul 14, 2025
America the Beautiful: How Ansel Adams Designed His Landmark Landscapes
Jul 08, 2025
Explained: The Design of Modern Fireworks
Jun 30, 2025
The Scarf: A Most Versatile Design
Jun 23, 2025
Lessons Learned from Capstone: Tips For A Successful Product Design
Jun 16, 2025
The Importance of Honoring the Design Process
Jun 09, 2025
Dr. Paul MacCready and The Kremer Prize
Jun 02, 2025
Exercises to Build Design Strength
May 27, 2025
Using Engineering Intuition and Strategic Experimentation to Overcome Technical Challenges
May 20, 2025
Natural Problems vs. Self-Induced Problems
May 12, 2025
Building Confidence Through Design: How BYU Capstone Projects Shape Future Engineers
May 05, 2025
5 Design Lessons I’ve Learned From Watching Too Much Shark Tank
Apr 29, 2025
The Principles of Garden Design and Their Application Beyond Landscapes
Apr 22, 2025
"Albert Einstein: His Life and Universe" by Walter Isaacson
Apr 15, 2025
A Plausible Future: The AI / Designer Partnership
Apr 07, 2025
Our Favorite Engineering Memes
Mar 31, 2025
Good Design: Japanese Wood Joinery
Mar 25, 2025
Caution: Road Construction Design Ahead
Mar 17, 2025
The Best Approximation of Pi
Mar 11, 2025
Women Who Changed History: Highlighting Influential Women Whose Contributions Have Been Underappreciated
Mar 03, 2025
The Doofenshmirtz Design Dilemma: Lessons in Engineering from Danville's Most Persistent Inventor
Feb 25, 2025
Design for Manufacturing Series: Joining Processes 1
Feb 18, 2025
Be a Grass-Roots Leader: A Career Reflection and Invitation by Ken Hardman
Feb 10, 2025
How to Become a Professor in Engineering Design
Feb 03, 2025
Piñata Design for Celebrations
Jan 28, 2025
Good Design: Grocery Stores
Jan 21, 2025
Seeing Everything Together
Jan 14, 2025
Most Read Articles of 2024
Jan 01, 2025
Engineering Versus Design
Dec 20, 2024
The Nightmare Before Christmas: A Timeless Masterpiece of Movie Design
Dec 03, 2024
Don’t spend all your weirdness points in one place
Nov 26, 2024
Gift Ideas for Design Engineers 2024
Nov 19, 2024
What your Filenames Reveal About your Design Mindset
Nov 12, 2024
Designing an Ice Cream Flavor: Crafting an Adventure
Nov 01, 2024
How to Design a Halloween Costume
Oct 24, 2024
The Magic of Magnets in Mechanical Design
Oct 16, 2024
A Woman, An Immigrant, and A Nuclear Engineer: Interview with Guirong Pan
Oct 10, 2024
Designing a College Semester: More Than Planning
Sep 24, 2024
What I Wish I Knew About Learning as an Undergrad
Sep 16, 2024
Avoiding the Next Boeing Door Plug Incident: Lessons from the YF-22
Sep 09, 2024
Good Design from the Summer of 2024
Sep 01, 2024
The Harp: A Perfect Union of Design Function and Form
Aug 20, 2024
Design for Manufacturing Series: Additive Manufacturing
Aug 14, 2024
Product Development Lessons from the NES Controller
Jul 31, 2024
Is Documentation Valuable to the Design Process?
Jul 11, 2024
Crafting iconic products: The Power of a Branded approach in Product Design
Jun 21, 2024
Student Club Design: Lessons In Leadership
Jun 06, 2024
The Modern-Day Ski Glove: A Surprising Opportunity for Innovation
May 28, 2024
Decomposition in Design
May 17, 2024
Minimalism in Design– Understanding Your Scope
May 09, 2024
Optimization From Nature - Genetic Algorithms - A Brief Introduction
May 01, 2024
This Concept Changed the Way I Think About Ideation
Apr 22, 2024
Why Study the Design Process?
Apr 11, 2024
Laughing through the Pain of Engineering
Apr 01, 2024
Optimization in Nature
Mar 30, 2024
Good Design: Wilson Airless Gen1 Basketball
Mar 21, 2024
Five Design Principles from Pi
Mar 14, 2024
Engineering with an Impact
Mar 07, 2024
Becoming a Slow Student
Feb 26, 2024
What I learned when I let AI render my hand sketches (2024)
Feb 20, 2024
Design for Manufacturing Series: Subtractive Machining
Feb 09, 2024
The Night Before the Launch – (A True Story)
Feb 02, 2024
Essay Writing Contest! Win Cash Prizes!
Jan 27, 2024
Inversion: The Power of Thinking Backwards
Jan 19, 2024
Bring Your Sketches to Life with Simple Shading and Shadow
Jan 12, 2024
Five Articles From 2023 You May Have Missed
Jan 05, 2024
2023: Year in Review
Dec 14, 2023
Design Lessons from Movies: The Polar Express
Dec 05, 2023
A Brief Overview of Manufacturing Processes
Nov 29, 2023
Holiday Gift Ideas for Design Engineers— 2023
Nov 17, 2023
Cushions, Keyboards, and a Customized MRI - Lessons in Human Centered Design
Nov 12, 2023
Design Thinking Part 5: Tips and Anecdotes
Nov 04, 2023
Halloween, Tradition, and Design
Oct 24, 2023
Good Design: GAN14 Maglev Speed Cube
Oct 20, 2023
Solar Eclipse Glasses: Design Considerations
Oct 11, 2023
Quaker Oats and The Design of Everyday Things
Oct 06, 2023
Book Review of Tim Harford's "Adapt"
Sep 28, 2023
The Power of Designing a Networking Plan
Sep 19, 2023
Good Design: Bicycles in the Netherlands
Sep 14, 2023
Back to School with the BYU Design Review
Sep 01, 2023
Being the best in the world is easy
Aug 25, 2023
Design Thinking Part 4: Framing and Reframing Design Problems
Aug 14, 2023
Blind(s) to Design
Aug 05, 2023
Good Design: Silly Putty
Jul 26, 2023
How Artificial Intelligence Can Improve Engineering Design
Jul 18, 2023
Beyond Paper: How to Make Origami Out of Thick Materials
May 29, 2023
Good Design: The Ozark Trail 1-Person Backpacking Tent
May 10, 2023
What is Systems Design? Part 3: The Case for Model Based Systems Engineering
Apr 26, 2023
Good Design: Nike ZoomX Vaporfly NEXT% 2
Apr 17, 2023
Good Design on the Roads of New Zealand
Apr 11, 2023
Life Lately - Memes for the Stressed Design Engineer
Apr 01, 2023
The Rules of Work
Mar 22, 2023
Pocket Prototyping
Mar 09, 2023
Innovate (Safely) and Thrive
Feb 25, 2023
NFL Stadiums and Human Centric Design
Feb 11, 2023
How did ChatGPT Perform as an Author?
Feb 07, 2023
How to Coordinate Product Development Activities
Feb 02, 2023
How ChatGPT Can Help Design Products (Written by ChatGPT)
Jan 25, 2023
Why Designers Make Prototypes
Jan 19, 2023
Good Ideas: They Come From Your Head
Jan 11, 2023
Five Articles From 2022 You May Have Missed
Dec 30, 2022
Most Read Articles of 2022
Dec 15, 2022
Barely Tolerance-able
Nov 29, 2022
Christmas Gift Ideas for Design Engineers 2022
Nov 23, 2022
A Spoonful of Paper Helps the Prototype Go Down
Nov 12, 2022
How do we Develop Creativity?
Nov 03, 2022
Design Principles behind Jack-o-Lantern Carving
Oct 27, 2022
Visual Thinking Exercises for Engineers
Oct 18, 2022
BYU Campus in LEGO
Oct 06, 2022
Public Sustainable Design Projects in California
Sep 26, 2022
Ideation Techniques: Affinity Mapping
Sep 20, 2022
Good Design: Going-to-the-Sun Road
Sep 09, 2022
Who's who: Getting to know the BYU Design Review Team
Sep 02, 2022
How to get the most out of an engineering conference
Aug 22, 2022
Hidden Engineering: The Design Secrets of Ancient Empires
Aug 15, 2022
Good Design: Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, and The Phonetic Alphabet
Aug 11, 2022
Ideation Techniques: Assessing the Effectiveness of your Brainstorming Session
Aug 01, 2022
Origami Design: A Fuzzy Boundary Between Art and Science
Jul 25, 2022
Marketing Pulls Versus Engineering Pushes
Jul 18, 2022
Good Design: The Fanny Pack
Jul 11, 2022
Why Does the Leaning Tower of Pisa Lean? What Can It Teach Us About Design?
Jul 01, 2022
Innovation, Sustainability, and Design for HVAC Systems
Jun 24, 2022
Water, Water Bottles, and Why I Struggled Finding Water Bottle Stickers in Peru
Jun 15, 2022
I Can’t Look Away From the Design of Trash Cans!
Jun 08, 2022
Useful Acronyms and Abbreviations in Product Development
Jun 02, 2022
6 Tips for Being Successful in Graduate School
May 25, 2022
Nuclear Power: Actuarial Versus Perceived Risks
May 18, 2022
Good Design: Garbage Cans In Brazil
Apr 26, 2022
From Chaos to Clarity in the Design Process
Apr 18, 2022
Good Design: Trublue Belay Gate
Apr 12, 2022
Eight Tips for Acing Your Internship
Apr 05, 2022
Not a Meme Article on the Design Process
Apr 01, 2022
Everyone Can Teach You Something About Design: Lessons From the Amazon
Mar 29, 2022
Getting a Patent the Hard Way
Mar 22, 2022
Good Design—The iPhone
Mar 15, 2022
The Risky Business of Design
Mar 08, 2022
What is Systems Design? Part 2
Mar 01, 2022
Three Unexpected Tips for Writing Better Technical Papers
Feb 21, 2022
Ski Design for the Olympics
Feb 15, 2022
Restraint—a Key to Design Success
Feb 10, 2022
What is Systems Design?
Jan 27, 2022
Learn to Sketch: Shading and Shadowing Cylinders
Jan 17, 2022
Optimizing vs Satisficing: Tips for Product Design and Designing Your Life
Jan 07, 2022
Five Articles From 2021 You May Have Missed
Dec 30, 2021
Most Read Articles of 2021
Dec 24, 2021
Design in Christmas Movies: Elf and the Forced Perspective
Dec 13, 2021
Year in Review of the BYU Design Review - 2021
Dec 10, 2021
Shigeru Miyamoto: Nintendo’s Super Power
Dec 02, 2021
Scissors Design Competition Winners
Nov 21, 2021
Christmas Gift Ideas for Design Engineers 2021
Nov 13, 2021
The Tenth Face of Innovation: The Storyteller
Nov 09, 2021
Good Design: Fender Precision Bass Guitar
Oct 29, 2021
What the Music Industry Teaches us About Creative Collaboration
Oct 19, 2021
The Problem in Pursuing Your Passion
Oct 12, 2021
What is the circular economy? How do I design for it?
Oct 02, 2021
Getting the Most Out of a Career Fair
Sep 21, 2021
Design Thinking Part 3: Design Thinking as a Mindset
Sep 16, 2021
Understanding the Impact of Products: An Introduction to the 11 Social Impact Categories
Sep 09, 2021
Second Annual BYU Design Review Competition
Sep 01, 2021
5 Articles to Help You Have a Successful School Year
Aug 31, 2021
Inspiration from History: Design in the Wilderness
Aug 25, 2021
Design Thinking Part 2: Design Thinking as a Step-by-Step Process
Aug 09, 2021
Design Lessons from the Olympics
Aug 03, 2021
Design Thinking Part 1: Basic Concepts and Principles
Jul 21, 2021
How Many Samples Do I Need? Determining Sample Size for Statistically Significant Results
Jul 09, 2021
The Ninth Face of Innovation: The Caregiver
Jul 01, 2021
Ideation Techniques: Brainstorming
Jun 19, 2021
Who Is Your Customer?
Jun 08, 2021
How NFTs Could Impact Designers
May 27, 2021
What I Learned From My Biggest Product Development Mistake
May 18, 2021
A Simple Hack for Completing Long-Term Projects
May 11, 2021
The Eighth Face of Innovation: The Set Designer
May 04, 2021
Perpetual Motion and Design
Apr 28, 2021
Design the BYU Design Review Logo and Win a Prize
Apr 21, 2021
To the Graduating Class
Apr 20, 2021
Casino Design Royale
Apr 15, 2021
Good Design: Dodge Viper
Apr 09, 2021
Memegineering
Apr 01, 2021
Realizing that you're Good Enough
Mar 27, 2021
Graham Wallas: The Creative Process
Mar 25, 2021
Design in Data Figures: Multi-Axis Figures
Mar 22, 2021
Designing Sailboats to go 60 mph
Mar 05, 2021
Becoming Effective and Efficient in Your Work
Mar 02, 2021
Keep the Big Picture in Mind
Feb 27, 2021
Design Lessons from DIY
Feb 18, 2021
The Seventh Face of Innovation: The Experience Architect
Feb 11, 2021
7 Timeless Principles We Can Learn from WD-40
Feb 09, 2021
Should we design things we don’t understand?
Feb 05, 2021
Good Design: Chaco Sandals
Jan 29, 2021
Start Stop Continue
Jan 29, 2021
Puzzles are a Designer's Best Friend
Jan 26, 2021
Connecting the Dots Backwards: Not Knowing What We Don’t Know, Part 2
Jan 14, 2021
Good Design: The VODA Heat Powered Stove Fan
Jan 13, 2021
Connecting the Dots Backwards: Not Knowing What We Don’t Know, Part 1
Jan 07, 2021
Designing Goals
Jan 04, 2021
Designing Your Year
Dec 31, 2020
Year in Review of the BYU Design Review - 2020
Dec 31, 2020
The Design of Whoville
Dec 26, 2020
Five Articles From 2020 You May Have Missed
Dec 22, 2020
Most Read Articles of 2020
Dec 18, 2020
Haste Makes Waste, But Not Always
Dec 15, 2020
Ansel Adams: The Obligation of all Creative People
Dec 04, 2020
Christmas Gift Ideas for Design Engineers 2020
Nov 26, 2020
The Sixth Face of Innovation: The Director
Nov 22, 2020
Design Lessons from Genghis Khan
Nov 19, 2020
Megatrends and Product Development
Nov 12, 2020
Verification Versus Validation
Nov 11, 2020
Good Design: The NRS Tie Down Strap
Nov 07, 2020