Design Lab · a tour for a future designer

Everything you love was designed by someone.

The chair you're sitting on. Your headphones. The water bottle that actually fits in your backpack pocket. Someone sketched each of those, argued about them, built them wrong, and fixed them until they were right. That job is called industrial design— and if furniture already has your attention, you're closer to it than you think.

Twelve short stops, each one something to poke at — including a 3D chair you get to design yourself. Use the arrows on a laptop, swipe on a phone.

Start the tour →12 stops · ~15 minutes · no wrong answers

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First — open your eyes

  1. 1You already think like a designer
  2. 2Furniture is one room in a much bigger house
  3. 3Famous objects, real people

Then — the craft

  1. 4Where designers actually work
  2. 5The loop: sketch, build, test, repeat
  3. 6The tools of the trade
  4. 7Do you need to be a math genius? No.
  5. 8Design a chair, right now

Finally — your path

  1. 9Your high-school game plan
  2. 10What design schools actually want
  3. 11Where this can take you
  4. 12Start this week