PickVidsBest Product & industrial design Videos
The 37 Product & industrial design videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 1 introductory, 0 intermediate, 36 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are an explainer. What they share is that one picture or analogy is used to supply a missing concept. Channels you will keep seeing include Technology Connections, TEDx Talks, Kirsten Dirksen.
It's not you. Bad doors are everywhere.
Vox's Joe Posner, with help from 99% Invisible, explains why bad doors are everywhere.
Steve Jobs Microsoft has no taste
A one-minute clip of Steve Jobs saying Microsoft has no taste.
Chest Freezers; What they tell us about designing for X
Technology Connections explains how refrigerator and freezer design affects energy use, using chest freezers to show why top-opening designs and layout choices matter.
Lessons from a Can Opener
Technology Connections spends 22 minutes on the humble can opener and what its design shows about products and why people don't know what to look for.
Lego-style apartment transforms into infinite spaces
A tour of Christian Schallert's 24 square meter apartment in Barcelona, designed so that it looks like an empty cube until he builds the furniture he needs.
Zizek on toilets
Slavoj Zizek speaks at an architecture congress in Pamplona about how toilet design in France, England and Germany reflects national ideology.
"Focusing is about saying no" - Steve Jobs (WWDC'97)
A three-minute clip of Steve Jobs at WWDC 1997 explaining that focus means saying no to many good ideas.
DYSON ANIMAL BALLS | It blows!
AvE tears down a broken Dyson Animal vacuum and its expensive replacement, criticizing the molded plastic, flimsy switches and overall engineering, with his usual profane commentary.
Steve Jobs : Great idea doesn't always translates into great product
A six-minute excerpt from Steve Jobs' 1995 Lost Interview on why a great idea does not automatically become a great product.
Steve Jobs - Apple Product Matrix Strategy 1997
A one-minute clip of Steve Jobs describing how he cut Apple's product line down to a four-quadrant matrix of consumer and pro, desktop and portable, during the 1997 turnaround.
Homer Designs a Car
A short clip of the Simpsons episode in which Homer designs a car with absurd requirements, used here as a lesson in project requirements and scope.
Peloton Tread+ Treadmill Safety Incident
A short silent video from the US Consumer Product Safety Commission warning consumers to stop using the Peloton Tread+.
Tim Cook, Sir Jony Ive KBE, and Laurene Powell Jobs | Full Interview | Code 2022
Kara Swisher interviews Apple CEO Tim Cook, designer Jony Ive and Laurene Powell Jobs at the 2022 Code Conference.