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Can An Adaptive UI Improve Twitter's iOS Design Problems?
After years of having two very different apps for iPhone and iPad, Twitter consolidated the two into a single adaptive interface that can automatically adjust itself for different resolutions and...
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This Solar-Powered Flashlight Pulls Double Duty As An iPhone Charger
When the electricity cuts out, you need spare batteries for two things: keeping your flashlight on, and charging your smartphone. Now on Kickstarter, Shine is a clever gadget that consolidates the two...
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Infographic: The Gross, Deadly History Of Color
How we make colors isn't something we think very much about in the digital age. They're just shining diodes of light, beaming from our displays. But for the vast majority of human history, making...
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This Glowing Vat Of Goo Can Read Your Mind
This protoplasmic vat of fluorescent goo might look like a witch's cauldron. But Solaris, a project by Russian artist Julia Borovaya, isn't horror: it's pure sci-fi. Named after the famous 1961 novel...
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Are GIFs The Future Of Novels?
Novels are made of words. Graphic novels are made of pictures, and often words. But what does a novel composed of GIFs look like, and can it be called a novel at all?That's what Dennis Cooper, a...
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Apple's 3D Touch Is Trying To Solve The Biggest Problem In Mobile
Let's say you want to take a selfie, or hail an Uber, or send a new email. How many taps does it take you? How many screens do you have to visit? It depends on what you're trying to do, but the...
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If The Masters Of The Art World Designed Bikes, They'd Look Like This
There's no shortage of bike museums around the world, but there aren't too many bikes that are displayed alongside paintings by Claude Monet and Frank Stella. But these bikes by Handsome Cycles are an...
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The 2015 Innovation By Design Awards Winners: Experimental
Crazy experiments often presage what becomes the norm. That's why the Experimental category in the Innovation by Design Awards is so important: the brave, innovative, and sometimes oddball ideas...
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The 2015 Innovation By Design Awards: 3-D Printing
This year, Fast Company gave 3-D Printing it's own category in the Innovation By Design Awards, to recognize all the ferment in the industry. The finalists and winner below all use 3-D printing to...
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When You Point It At A Cliché, This Camera Censors Itself
Photographers often complain that the major thing that has been lost in the transition to digital is deliberation. Analog cameras were like six-shooters: you had to aim your shots carefully. But...
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The Ultimate Space Porn Chart Gets A Modern Design Overhaul
When it comes to vintage chart porn, there's nothing quite like the Rockwell Integrated Space Plan. Now, New York-based design firm 212box, in cooperation with the original ISP's designer and a team of...
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AOL's Plan To Make Online Ads Into Choose-Your-Own Adventures
Online advertising's looking at a rough patch. Publishers need to keep ads on people's eyeballs longer than ever to make ends meet, even as Apple is poised to make ad blocking mainstream with Safari's...
View ArticleOsaka Turns Its River Into A Giant Sushi Conveyor Belt
If you think about it, a sushi restaurant's conveyor belt isn't just a fun delivery system for nigiri and sashimi. It's also a sales pitch in the form of a metaphor: what better way to eat fresh fish...
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A Transforming Design For The New Bauahaus Museum
Although Walter Gropius's famous "School of Building" was started in Weimar in 1919, it wasn't until the Bauhaus moved to its second home in Dessau, Germany, that it gained a proper architecture...
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The Road To Old Faithful Has Been Repaved In Tires
When you think about the big administrative problems facing Yellowstone, tires probably aren't one of them. But actually, tires—what they do to the environment, and what to do with them—are a huge...
View ArticleThis Genius Screen Protector Gives Your iPhone Forward And Back Buttons
Armorz's new "intelligent" screen protector for iPhone 6/6S has a killer feature no one's ever thought of before: It gives the iPhone dedicated navigation buttons that makes one-handed use a heck of a...
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Can Atomic Be Google Docs For Designers?
It seems insane, but Photoshop is still the starting point for a lot of app and web designers. But when you start your design in a static tool that doesn't do interaction, or animation, or have version...
View ArticleYou Can Now Buy Darth Vader's Own Wristwatch
When it comes to Star Wars, you've got to give the Empire credit: they've got style. Glossy, blocky, analog, monochrome style that looks good on everything from the Death Star all the way down to the...
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A Hoodie That Gives You Back Massages All Day Long
Look at Mark Zuckerberg carefully. Underneath that hoodie, it's hard to believe the Facebook's founder isn't hiding a Quasimodo-like lump of vertebral complaints. And chances are the rest of those...
View ArticleJapanese Paper Cutting Could Be The Key To Better Solar Power
Kirigami isn't quite as well known as it's flashier cousin, origami, but the Japanese paper cutting technique is already being implemented in innovative new technology designs. Next up for kirigami?...
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