Great design is a never-ending journey of discovery -- for which it helps to pack a healthy sense of humor. Sociologist and surfer-turned-designer David Carson walks through a gorgeous (and often quite funny) slide deck of his work and found images.

Graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister takes the audience on a whimsical journey through moments of his life that made him happy -- and notes how many of these moments have to do with good design.

About this event: This is a TEDx Youth event geared towards students (12+), parents and educators alike. The Wonder of Design will focus on the broad theme of design-thinking and its impact on our lives. We have brought together a number of exciting presenters who will address different aspects such as: DESIGN YOUR STORY: CASEY NEISTAT Film maker and ...

A handful of people working at a handful of tech companies steer the thoughts of billions of people every day, says design thinker Tristan Harris. From Facebook notifications to Snapstreaks to YouTube autoplays, they're all competing for one thing: your attention. Harris shares how these companies prey on our psychology for their own profit and ...

With astronaut eyes and ethnographer curiosity, Tricia Wang helps corporations grow by discovering the unknown about their customers.

Joe Gebbia, the co-founder of Airbnb, bet his whole company on the belief that people can trust each other enough to stay in one another's homes. How did he overcome the stranger-danger bias? Through good design. Now, 123 million hosted nights (and counting) later, Gebbia sets out his dream for a culture of sharing in which design helps foster c...

What makes work satisfying? Apart from a paycheck, there are intangible values that, Barry Schwartz suggests, our current way of thinking about work simply ignores. It's time to stop thinking of workers as cogs on a wheel.

About this event: "Global Experiences" will set the stage for an afternoon of sharing unique ideas, real-time exposure and awareness of global identity, design-thinking models - all from speakers coming from different walks of life. Our goal is to provide our audience members with an educational and inspirational experience and show them new perspectives of appro...

Design legend Michael Bierut tells the story of the accidental success of one of the most famous maps in the world -- the London Tube Map.

Buildings are bad news for the climate -- but they don't have to be. While our structures are currently responsible for a third of global energy consumption and emissions, a future where they create more energy than they consume is possible. Energy policy analyst Ksenia Petrichenko has a three-tiered strategy for thinking differently about build...

In graphic design, Marian Bantjes says, throwing your individuality into a project is heresy. She explains how she built her career doing just that, bringing her signature delicate illustrations to storefronts, valentines and even genetic diagrams.

Designer Ross Lovegrove expounds his philosophy of "fat-free" design and offers insight into several of his extraordinary products, including the Ty Nant water bottle and the Go chair.

About this event: Our built environment will be the cause, the effect and the stage of our future sustainable lives. Imagination, precision and agency of change are the indispensable traits of the creative consciousness that will power design thinking and practice. To strengthen our fight against climate change, the Fondation Braillard Architectes joins leading o...

About this event: from the Urban Resilience series A selection of videos will be screened of work by Darren Petrucci, Director, The Design School, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts RJ Muna, a photographer who's had a cappuccino in a lot of countries all around the world Janine Benyus, advocate of biomimicry, emulating nature's designs and processe...

Kelli Anderson shatters our expectations about reality by injecting humor and surprise into everyday objects. She shares her disruptive and clever designs.

About this event: You are cordially invited to the next TEDxTheHague salon! Our July edition — themed D Is For Design — is curated by TEDxTheHague. "Question: How many designers will it take to screw in a light bulb? Answer: Why a light bulb? In our last salon before the summer break, we delve into the D of TED. Design in its most effective form is process and ...

What does your chair say about what you value? Designer Sebastian Deterding shows how our visions of morality and "the good life" are reflected in the design of objects around us.

New York Times columnist David Pogue takes aim at technology’s worst interface-design offenders, and provides encouraging examples of products that get it right. To funny things up, he bursts into song.

Architect Norman Foster discusses his own work to show how computers can help architects design buildings that are green, beautiful and "basically pollution-free." From the 2007 DLD Conference, Munich; www.dld-conference.com

About this event: A space to engage in important dialogue about the changes in our society and its path forward. An event featuring topics about important trends, behaviours and needs within our society that are manifesting in our world today and will continue to alter our global society for the future generations that follow. Engaging students in these topic...

Ashraf Ghani's passionate and powerful 10-minute talk, emphasizing the necessity of both economic investment and design ingenuity to rebuild broken states, is followed by a conversation with TED curator Chris Anderson on the future of Afghanistan.

About this event: TED Es una plataforma mundial de contenidos multimedia como tecnología, educación y diseño. TEDx es la maximización del concepto llevando un proyecto social a las comunidades de todo el Mundo. En Aguascalientes se han abrazado los barrios fundacionales como El Encino, San Marcos y ahora en la tercera edición La Estación. El 23 de Marzo serán mos...

About this event: "The Future of the Workplace: Leadership, Collective Intelligence and Meaning" Leading and innovative companies from Pixar in Silicon Valley to HCL in India are leveraging the collective intelligence of their teams with great success. The question is not “How do I make innovation happen?” but, rather, “How do I set the stage for it to happen?...

The legendary design team Charles and Ray Eames made films, houses and classic midcentury modern furniture. Eames Demetrios, their grandson, shows rarely seen films and archival footage in a lively, loving tribute to their creative process.

By 2100, the UN estimates that the world's population will grow to just over 11 billion people. Architect Vishaan Chakrabarti wants us to start thinking about how we'll house all these people -- and how new construction can fight climate change rather than make it worse. In this visionary talk, Chakrabarti proposes a "Goldilocks" solution to sus...

Engineer RA Mashelkar shares three stories of ultra-low-cost design from India that use bottom-up rethinking, and some clever engineering, to bring expensive products (cars, prosthetics) into the realm of the possible for everyone.

Paula Scher looks back at a life in design (she's done album covers, books, the Citibank logo ...) and pinpoints the moment when she started really having fun. Look for gorgeous designs and images from her legendary career.

About this event: This is an Independently run TED event on the theme Mind Over Matter. Our theme encompasses ideas on the power of the mind with experts presenting their topics on the relevant field. General topics presented will be on: Relationship hacking Fitness/health Advanced education social enterprise Cultural intelligence Neuro dancing Social media/sto...

Dr. Ernest Madu runs the Heart Institute of the Caribbean in Kingston, Jamaica, where he proves that -- with careful design, smart technical choices, and a true desire to serve -- it's possible to offer world-class healthcare in the developing world.

Timothy Prestero thought he'd designed the perfect incubator for newborns in the developing world -- he even won awards for it. But he and his team learned a hard lesson when their incubator completely failed to catch on. Hear his hard-earned manifesto on the importance of designing for real-world use, not accolades.