Handmade wedding florals are moving beyond monogrammed trinkets toward meaningful, functional designs that reflect couples’ personalities and stories. Experts highlight a focus on quality materials, ...

It's often been said that form follows function. I prefer to think that function drives form. Unfortunately, just the opposite is true for modern CAD tools -- function is a slave to form (or geometry) ...

The treatment of functional features in design patents was discussed in the recent Federal Circuit case for Sport Dimension, Inc. v. The Coleman Company, Inc., Case No. 15-1553 (Fed. Cir. 2016). The ...

Applicants for design patents should consider claiming functional aspects of their designs in addition to the purely ornamental elements as part of their claiming strategy to achieve the broadest ...

People often confuse the purpose and role of functional specifications and design documents. Design and function should never meet in a document. Design and function must be documented during the ...

Whether you are designing or redesigning a course, consider collaborating with the Instructional Design team and other WMU faculty and instructors to: Examine ways to identify and address the needs of ...