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Ikea: 7 Predictions For What Your Home Will Look Like In 2020
There's a good chance that Marcus Engman is directly responsible for at least one piece of furniture in your house—and if you're a millennial, maybe all of it. As head of design for Ikea Sweden,...
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Can You Solve A Jigsaw Puzzle Based On Color Gradients?
If #TheDress social media frenzy of earlier this month proved anything, it's that people perceive colors very differently. So this jigsaw puzzle which tasks people to fit together a gradient pattern is...
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4 Reasons Why Design Is Taking Over Silicon Valley
Are the fortunes of design on the rise in Silicon Valley? A resounding yes, says John Maeda, design partner at the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers. During a presentation at South By...
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Why We Need A Haptic Design Language For Wearables
There's a disconnect between what wearables can be and what they currently are, says Chris Ullrich, who heads up user experience at Immersion, a firm known for its haptic feedback innovations. Right...
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Twitter Is Experimenting With A Major Homepage Design Overhaul
Twitter is currently experimenting with a major design overhaul that could transform the login page of the popular microblogging site into a real-time portal of news stories and celebrity updates.Over...
View ArticleThe T-1000 Of 3-D Printers Is Here
Like a T-1000 Terminator rising out of a pool of blood-red liquid metal, Carbon3D is a radical new printing technology that can actually pull a model out of a bed of resin, up to 100 times faster than...
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Nendo's Innovative New Suitcase Is As Versatile As It Is Beautiful
If you're a seasoned traveler who is convinced that a hard-shelled carry-on is the only one worth considering, Nendo wants to change your mind, at least partially. The Japanese design house has teamed...
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I Sexted A Robot (And Turned It On)
Algorithmically, my inner nostril is sexier than my balls.That's what I learned from Sext Machine, a game in which a robot rates the sexiness—or should that be sextiness?—of blurry globules of flesh....
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4 Ways To Design Better Login Screens
The login form doesn't immediately come to mind as something that needs better design standards. Once you think about it, though, it's obvious: How many times has a login screen coughed up a...
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Yahoo Fills Your Empty Browser Tabs With Flickr's Most Beautiful Photographs
So this appears to be a thing now. Just last week, Google's Cultural Institute released a Chrome extension that hangs famous works of artists from the likes of Van Gogh, Degas, and Claude Monet in...
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25 Ideas Shaping The Future Of Design
Design is always changing, and with tech and design increasingly aligning, we're arguably headed to the most radical period of change in design history. How radical will the design landscape of 2020...
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The Atavist Redesign Turns The Long-Form Portal Into A Magic Word Processor
If you thought Medium was the most beautiful way to write on the web, boy, catch a load of the Atavist redesign.Launching today, the National Magazine Award-winning digital magazine turned publishing...
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This Impossible Rocking Chair Wouldn't Exist If Not For 3-D Printing
With its vaguely Caribbean aesthetic and ovum-like design, the Durotaxis Chair looks from a distance more like an alien egg than something you sit on. Look closer, though, and the Durotaxis becomes...
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Modest Mouse's Weird New Web App Is Better Than Its Latest Album
Your days of sitting alone in your dorm room weeping quietly to The Moon & Antarctica may be over, but that doesn't mean Modest Mouse doesn't have anything to offer. The rock band, founded in...
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Instagram's Latest App Makes Photo Collage Beautiful
Instagram has just released Layout, a new single-serving app, à la Hyperlapse, that satisfies itself with doing just one thing well: mashing up as many as nine photographs into a single Instagram or...
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8 Album Covers Designed By Legendary Comedian Phil Hartman
Comedian Phil Hartman might be best known for his many, many iconic roles: Troy McClure on The Simpsons, Frozen Caveman Lawyer on Saturday Night Live, the original Genie on Pee-Wee's Playhouse, and...
View ArticleThis App Will Let You Wear The Apple Watch Right Now
Not entirely sure how the Apple Watch would look on your wrist? A new augmented-reality app called ARWatch allows you to put a virtual version of the smartwatch on your wrist and play around with it....
View ArticleRidiculous By Design: Where Design's Craziest Inventor Gets His Ideas
Dominic Wilcox is known for his mad ideas. Over the last half-decade or so, he has created a succession of improbable designs, including GPS Wingtips with directions written on the sole, a pair of...
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Kickstarter Gives Project Pages A Beautiful Facelift
Since 2009, the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter has nurtured great ideas. But once a project reaches its funding goal, it can get lost in the mix, and its Kickstarter page becomes a shell of its...
View ArticleWatch The Evolution Of The Disney Logo
Sleeping Beauty's castle, tiered like a wedding cake, illuminated with the long, parabolic arc of a fairy streaking across the sky. That has been the logo for Walt Disney Pictures since 1985, and...
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