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Product & industrial design Videos Recommended on Hacker News (37)

Product & industrial design is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 37 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 82 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Product and industrial design: design philosophy, Dieter Rams, Jony Ive, Steve Jobs on product, ergonomics, design of everyday things, packaging, design process, product thinking.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on The Ingenious Design of the Aluminum Beverage Can: “Whenever it’s about cans I can only recommend this video from the engineer guy” — an HN commenter, 2025.

Product & industrial design Videos Recommended on Hacker News (37)

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The Ingenious Design of the Aluminum Beverage Can

The Grille Trend that Kills 509 People per Year

Steve Jobs Insult Response

British Plugs Are Better Than All Other Plugs, And Here's Why

Microsoft Re-Designs the iPod Packaging

Segmented Displays

Steve Jobs Insult Response - Highest Quality

Nokia Morph Concept (long)

So... the minute hand shows progression — apparently we think of time in wildly different ways

5 steps to designing the life you want | Bill Burnett | TEDxStanford

Steve Jobs Content vs Process

Meeting my hero! Sailing legend Sven Yrvind

The Antique Microwave Oven that's Better than Yours

Find your primal posture and sit without back pain: Esther Gokhale at TEDxStanford

Extreme transformer home in Hong Kong: Gary Chang's 24 rooms in 1

Everything is a Remix Part 3 (Original Series, 2011)

1993 interview re: Paul Rand and Steve Jobs

Thomas Thwaites: How I built a toaster -- from scratch

Why Western Designs Fail in Developing Countries

Conventional Keyboards Are STAGGERINGLY STUPID!

The Senseless Ambiguity of North American Turn Signals

Apple - iMac G4 "Lamp" ad (2002)

How to design an actually good toaster with lessons from the 1940's

Steve Jobs on Microsoft

It's not you. Bad doors are everywhere.

Steve Jobs Microsoft has no taste

Chest Freezers; What they tell us about designing for X

Lessons from a Can Opener

Lego-style apartment transforms into infinite spaces

Zizek on toilets

"Focusing is about saying no" - Steve Jobs (WWDC'97)

DYSON ANIMAL BALLS | It blows!

Steve Jobs : Great idea doesn't always translates into great product

Steve Jobs - Apple Product Matrix Strategy 1997

Homer Designs a Car

Peloton Tread+ Treadmill Safety Incident