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What Is Zero UI? (And Why Is It Crucial To The Future Of Design?)
For better or worse, a large amount of design work these days is visual. That makes sense, since the most essential products we interact with have screens. But as the internet of things surrounds us...
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The Story Of Nukes, Visualized
With fireworks set to fly this coming July 4th weekend, maybe it's time to reflect upon another kind of rocket's red glare that—seemingly against all odds—haven't exploded in the sky over the last 70...
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32 Productivity Tips From The World's Top Designers
Even if you're working your dream job, staying productive can be tough. That's why designers are such productivity experts: time after time, they overcome the temptation to slack so they can brainstorm...
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The Nation Gets A Facelift From Obama's Digital Design Team
The Nation, America's oldest continuously published weekly magazine, is 150 years old today and up until last week, its website at TheNation.com looked at least that old. Now, the self-described...
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Nike Puts A Target On Tennessee's Football Gloves
Can design help correct for butterfingered receivers who keep fumbling the pigskin? The Tennessee Athletics is hoping so. As part of a new overhaul to the University of Tennessee's uniforms and sports...
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Would You Visit A Theme Park That Wants To Crush, Burn, And Drown You?
You'd be hard pressed to get even the most daring thrill seekers to enter a collapsing building or a burning tunnel, but for fire fighters around the world, it's just part of the job. To teach his...
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The NSA Of Fonts Censors You In Real-Time
In a post-privacy age, everyone has to acknowledge that they could be under surveillance by the government. "Seen" is a new computer font by Emil Kazole that lets you know in real time if what you're...
View ArticleHere's What Google's Trippy Deep Dream AI Does To A Video Selfie
A few weeks ago, Google created algorithmic feedback loops in the artificial neural networks it uses to power Google Photos' image-searching abilities. The result was a series of hallucinogenic still...
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A Skyscraper Designed To Survive The Next 10,000 Years
Nuclear war. Disappearing natural resources. Overpopulation, then underpopulation. Rising sea levels. These are just some of the challenges Londoners will have to face over the next 10,000 years. Royal...
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These Headphones Beam Music From Your Bike Helmet To Your Skull
Looking for an idiot with a god complex? Just keep your eyes peeled for the helmetless cyclist wearing headphones. But Royal College of Art Graduate Gemma Roper is looking to change that. She thinks...
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How To Design Gadgets For The Dead
We build wheelchairs for paraplegics, prosthetic limbs for amputees, yet we ignore the biggest disability of all: death. Why don't we design devices for the dead to communicate with? In an old San...
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The Best Pill Reminder App Ever
PillPack had a problem. By sending customers a box of all their medications pre-sorted into chronological packets, the IBD-nominated, Ideo-accelerated startup had reinvented the pillbox for the Netflix...
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Volvo Designs A Safer Way For Kids To Ride In The Front
Front passenger air bags have been responsible for at least 180 child deaths over the years, many of which occurred in situations which would have been avoided if the child had been riding in the back....
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MTV Is Turning Itself Into A Living GIF
For decades, MTV electrified the frontal lobes of bored teenagers, with only VH1 to compete with. But now it's 2015. MTV is not just competing with other television channels; it's competing with...
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The World's Most Hauntingly Beautiful Abandoned Theme Parks
Seph Lawless is obsessed with ruins and abandoned structures, making a career of documenting everything from the abandoned shopping malls of the 1980's (Black Friday: The Collapse of the American Mall)...
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Why Designers Need A DJ-Style Mixing Board
Mixing boards have long been the domain of DJs and music producers, but why haven't hardware interfaces caught on with designers and creatives? If Calvin Chu gets his way, they will. Chu is the...
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This Social Network Is Like Facebook Meets 'World War Z'
We talk about things going viral on social media, but what does a social network designed to literally spread like a virus look like? Look no further than Plag. Currently on iOS and Android, Plag...
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A Screen-Printing Machine That Looks Like An Old Bauhaus Poster
Screen-printed posters were an important part of the Bauhaus, Constructivist, and Pop Art movements. To pay homage to that history, François Chambard of New York design studio UM Project has created a...
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Can More White Space Solve The Web's Readability Problems?
What separates a good reader from someone with low literacy? Everything else being equal, a good reader reads in chunks, skipping over words and grouping them together into phrases and clauses, as...
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A Candle That Charges Your Smartphone
There was a time when keeping your cell phone charged without a working electricity grid seemed like a third-world problem. Not anymore. According to the Department of Energy, aging electrical...
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