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Newly-developed image guidelines will improve mobile shopping experience worldwide

07 Feb 2018

A new type of online product image, developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge in collaboration with global consumer goods company...

Breathing new life into asthma treatment

05 Oct 2017

Ian Hosking from Cambridge’s Engineering Design Centre is co-founder and co-leader of Designing Our Tomorrow, a collaboration between the Department...

Students from Wimbledon High School at the British Paediatric Respiratory Society conference, Credit: Lloyd Mann

Student-led designs could help prevent childhood asthma deaths

10 Jul 2017

Solutions designed by secondary school students as part of an innovative classroom design and technology programme could help reduce the number of...

Intravenous drip, Credit: Toshiyuki Imai

Keeping patients safe in hospital

15 Nov 2016

Healthcare is a complex beast and too often problems arise that can put patients’ health – and in some cases, lives – at risk. A collaboration...

Building from the ground up: participatory design in Kenya’s oldest slum

05 Aug 2015

In a landmark project with UN-Habitat, a team of Cambridge researchers has designed a community centre in one of Kenya’s biggest and oldest slums...

Thinking inside the box

31 Mar 2015

New research into the phenomenon of design fixation – allowing prior experience to blind us to new possibilities – may help in the development of new...

Reflection lines on a creased structure, Credit: Jirí Kosinka

“You’ve got a friend in me” Bringing designers and animators together

17 Feb 2015

Aircraft designers and animators use different digital technologies to achieve the same goal: creating a three-dimensional image that can be...

Designing our Tomorrow: Resources to inspire the next generation of engineers

08 May 2014

New resources designed to inspire the next generation of engineers by bringing authentic engineering challenges into the classroom have been launched...

Close-up of the moss pots incorporated into a novel table developed at Cambridge University.

The hidden power of moss

22 Sep 2011

Scientists at Cambridge University are exhibiting a prototype table that demonstrates how biological fuel cells can harness energy from plants.

It’s a material world

15 Sep 2011

A spin-out from Cambridge's Engineering Department and a leading supplier of materials information technology software to industry, Granta Design has...