Product Design
All CategoriesAnything involving how a product was built to serve a certain need. This could include ways manufacturers make their products more feature-rich, more/less repairable, or how they make stupid decisions that cause the product to break more often.
Tech News
Please Do Not Mount Your Phone to Your Motorcycle (Despite Apple’s Cool Ads)
Apple says two interesting, opposing things about the iPhone 13. One, an advertisement, says it’s the perfect phone for a dashing Spanish moto-scooter courier, guiding them to deliveries and meet-ups…
by Kevin Purdy
How Tech Works
The Chips You Find In iFixit Teardowns, Part 1: Power Management
It’s a time-consuming investigation, requiring intuition, experience, wonky Googling, esoteric apps, and spec sheet PDFs. It results in a single rainbow-colored, data-stuffed teardown step. It’s called Chip ID, and you…
by Arthur Shi - iFixit