Clik here to view.
Traditional Homepages Are Obsolete, Says Quartz. Here's What They Built Instead.
When Quartz first launched in September, 2012, the digital-only business publication made a bold gamble. With the future of traffic coming directly to articles from social media streams, they decided...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Google Asks 18 Artists To Redesign The Router
Google's OnHub project is all about making Wi-Fi—and therefore, Google itself—better in people's houses. Google hopes to achieve that by making OnHub software simple and powerful, but an equally...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Ikea Meatball Reimagined 8 Different Ways
In April, Ikea introduced vegan-friendly Veggie Balls alongside its beloved Swedish meatballs, a first step toward offering a wider selection of healthy, sustainable food. But if 2015 is the year of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Microsoft: 2016 Will Be The Year Of AI
Microsoft recently asked 16 members of its technology and research organization to predict the big trends of 2016. There are some outliers—a researcher here who is really excited about styluses, a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
War, Peace, And Technology: A History Of The 20th Century Through Color Trends
Pantone's annual Color of the Year stunt may be silly, but it does prove that our taste in color changes almost as quickly as our taste in fashion. And like fashion, color taste comes in cycles, and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mailbox's Death Shows Good Design Alone Can't Unbreak Email
Related: There's No Such Thing As A Perfectly Designed Email App (And That's Okay)How Email Became The Most Reviled Communication Experience EverMailbox: Ideo And Apple Alums Reinvent Mobile...
View ArticleClik here to view.
MIT's Amazing New App Lets You Program Any Object
The end goal of the Internet of Things is to make every object in your life programmable. But our smart objects are still pretty dumb. They don't talk to each other, and most are only capable of doing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
An Office The Size Of A City: Googleplex Designer's Latest Zany Idea
Clive Wilkinson, the designer of the original Googleplex, knows a thing or two about designing offices. And he thinks they're pretty wasteful. His satirical alternative? An endless, single-level...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Forget Cubicles. These Acoustic Dampening Honeycombs Are Made Of Hemp
Big open offices are the modern—and perhaps broken—standard, but acoustically, they're nightmares: cavernous concrete bunkers where people are afraid to speak above a whisper. "No one really thinks...
View ArticleInside A Robot Eyeball, Science Will Decode Our Body Language
In social situations, words are often secondary: In fact, scientists believe that non-verbal cues represent two-thirds of the way we communicate. Yet this non-verbal language is only dimly understood....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Star Wars: The Force Categorized, Tabulated, and Visualized
For a series of movies about wizards in space, the Star Wars films feature a lot less overt magic than you probably realized. In fact, as a new infographic from Bloomberg points out, there's only 34...
View ArticleWatch: Four Drones Keep Two Nude Dancers SFW In Carefully Choreographed Ad
Full disclosure: even though it's impossible, I'm the guy who's always secretly hoping the censor boxes slip whenever they're employed to obscure prime time nudity. Japanese retailer Buyma has turned...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How A UI Can Help Treat Anxiety And Depression
Earlier this year, Robert Morris, an MIT graduate working on making health care accessible to everyone through technology, told us about his dissertation project: Koko, a kind of social network focused...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What Makes An Image Memorable? This MIT AI Might Hold The Key
Not sure why some photographs just brand themselves deep into your memory, while others make no impact whatsoever? With the help of a new neural network that learns to think like humans, researchers at...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Spectrum Of Earth-Like Planets, Visualized
In the Brothers Grimm, Goldilocks refers to the hard-to-please home invader who ultimately gets eaten by three bears. In astronomical terms, Goldilocks refers to extrasolar planets that are "just...
View Article9 Clever Ideas For Improving Travel
Travel presents itself as a glamorous endeavor, but the reality is often anger-making and tedious. Thank goodness there are designers around the world working to fix problems such as cumbersome...
View Article12 Great Apps From 2015
While apps aren't the hotbed of design exploration they were a few years back, they are just as essential to our daily digital experience as ever. Here are a few that did it right, from games to new...
View ArticleThe Year's Boldest Ideas In User Interface Design
When design historians look back on 2015, they will likely point out two major trends.The first? The UIs of 2015 effortlessly stride between cyberspace and meatspace, from Microsoft's HoloLens to MIT's...
View ArticleOur 14 Best Design Longreads Of 2015
Deep dives, thrilling tales of derring-design, and damning essays by industry giants like Don Norman—we've put together a list of our favorite design longreads of the year (see our slide show above)....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Stormtroopers Are The iPhones Of Star Wars
The new Star Wars movie is good. But it's not revolutionary. Its plot is a loose beat-by-beat remake of A New Hope, with a little bit of Empire thrown in at the end. There's a planet-sized star base,...
View Article