If it hadn’t mentioned that it was a machine, I would have thought I was chatting with a woman from Southern California. | Continue reading
The cold blue light of modern touchscreens may be aesthetically pleasing, but it poses health problems. Designers and technologists should take cues from military history and embrace the orange. | Continue reading
Practical ways that designers can build a sense of calm into their work. | Continue reading
After it’s completely filled, you bury it in the ground. | Continue reading
Before Steve Jobs gave it the ax in 1997, the Advanced Technology Group developed some of the most influential technology of the century. | Continue reading
The end of reality is imminent. | Continue reading
After nearly a century, these long-lost typefaces are being reborn through clever design sleuthing. | Continue reading
Behavioral psychologist Ingrid Gehl influenced much of the thinking of her husband, the celebrated urbanist Jan Gehl. Imagine if all designers were married to behavioral scientists–or even if they just talked with each other. | Continue reading
This weekend, the long-awaited Domino Park finally opens to the public. Here’s what it took to bring the $50 million, six-year project into reality. | Continue reading
Electronic medical records were supposed to revolutionize medicine. Instead they’ve been a nightmare for doctors. It’s time they undergo the same UX transformation that has remade travel, retail, and entertainment, writes a research team from the University of Pennsylvania. | Continue reading
Ikea is partnering with Adidas, Lego, and Sonos to sell you everything. | Continue reading
Facebook and Google want to build planned communities. A brief spin through history shows why this is a bad idea. | Continue reading
The time has come. | Continue reading
And they didn’t even make an app for that. | Continue reading
The celebrated filmmaker spent his teenage years capturing his hometown of New York. | Continue reading
In government, the real change makers aren’t 24-year-old male engineers parachuted in from Silicon Valley, but a diverse range of people who have worked in or around government for years, who are invested in their communities, and who simply like intractable problems. | Continue reading
With Cereal, Airbnb’s custom font that spans everything from billboards to buttons, the company is rethinking how marketing is done. | Continue reading
It’s actually a lot less crazy than it sounds. | Continue reading
Two years ago, Google gave us a new logo. Now, it’s turned that logo into an interface. | Continue reading
Researchers are sounding the alarm after an analysis showed that buying a new smartphone consumes as much energy as using an existing phone for an entire decade. | Continue reading
Google is evolving its landmark Material Design philosophy–and making it easier for everyone to use. | Continue reading
The retailer wants to translate the best parts of its stores–like the friendliness of its greeters and the local preferences of its shoppers–for the web. | Continue reading
Ideo reveals five AI machines that explore ways technology can help people sort their thoughts, plan for the future, and even communicate better with each other. | Continue reading
And that’s not necessarily a bad thing. | Continue reading
Finally. | Continue reading
This hotspot comes with a side of civil disobedience. | Continue reading
The early Mac OS makes our current phones and laptops look like the slot machines they are. | Continue reading
The early Mac OS makes our current phones and laptops look like the slot machines they are. | Continue reading
Philip Ashforth Coppola has spent 40 years illustrating subway stations–and revealing their forgotten histories. | Continue reading
Lucy McRae’s Institute of Isolation follows a woman as she prepares for space travel with a series of sensory deprivation tanks. | Continue reading