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New Design Incubator Will Have You Building A Shippable Gadget In 8 Weeks
The product development company Nascent has launched a new hardware incubator aimed at helping designers bring gadgets to market in just eight weeks. The typical product development process takes 6 to...
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Are Chatbots Really The Future Of Web Design?
Adrian Zumbrunnen was terrified of what conversational interfaces meant for him as a UX designer. "The conversational interface is scary," he says. "Will I still have a place in this industry when...
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The Year's Most Beautiful (And Bizarre) Bird Photography
Since 1905, the National Audubon Society has dedicated itself to the appreciation of birds in all their fine feathered splendor. The annual Audubon Photography Awards haven't been around for nearly as...
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Microsoft Is Bringing Clip Art Back
After providing a gross arsenal of bitmap art crimes to design-blind office drones for the better part of two decades, Microsoft officially announced that it was ending support for clip art in 2014....
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The Glorious Courtyards Of Budapest, Photographed From Below
Any architectural tour of Europe has to include a trip to Budapest's Great Boulevard—or Nagykörút—built in 1896 to celebrate Hungary's 1,000th anniversary as a country. The Great Boulevard's...
View ArticleTo Click This Assistive Mouse, Just Bite
Assistive devices help millions of paralyzed people access the Internet and communicate, but they don't come cheap. When Stephen Hawking speaks, he does so by using a $200,000 eye tracking computer,...
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Meet The Man Pioneering "Method" Design In Film
Bill Groom jokingly refers to himself as a "method" production designer—a reference to method actors who embody their characters to better portray them. It's not unlike how Groom recreates the places...
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The Secret World Inside The Original 1984 Macintosh
The London-based studio Dorothy—makers of posters and infographics that also serve as speculative maps of fanciful worlds—has released its latest print, a look inside the original Macintosh computer....
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Microsoft Research's New Touchscreen Can (Almost) Read Your Mind
Google and Apple have both actively spent the last couple of years trying to solve the biggest problem in mobile: how to treat your finger taps differently depending upon context. Google's solution is...
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How Architecture Students Are Building Shelters By Hand With Just $2K
For most of history, if you wanted to live in a house, you probably designed and built it yourself. These days, though, design has become so thoroughly uncoupled from construction that most architects...
View ArticleMIT's Latest Tangible Interface? Shape-Shifting Digital Clay
In 2013, MIT unveiled a shape-shifting interface called Inform. Since then, the Tangible Media Group has continued developing new projects based on the display—including its latest,...
View ArticleA Drone Goes Inside Seattle's Enormous New Tunnel
Bertha, as she is affectionately known, is the 57-foot-tall, 325-foot-long tunnel-boring machine that is currently carving out a $3.1 billion subterranean highway underneath Seattle. There's no more...
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This Interaction Designer Invented The Ultimate Ping-Pong Table
One of the most important weapons in the ping-pong player's arsenal is the smash hit. The equivalent of a spike in volleyball, a smash hit is a devastating attack used to blast opponents who have...
View ArticleHelp The Obama Administration Design A Better Medical Bill
The only thing more painful than going to the hospital is the steep bill that comes later, but the Obama administration thinks design can help make a difference. That's why the administration launched...
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The Surprising Beauty Of The World's Most Hellish Traffic Interchanges
In the world of traffic planning, "spaghetti junction" is a nickname given to a traffic interchange that is so complicated, it seems like Jove should hurl meatballs down upon it from above. New York...
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An Intimate Look At The World's Refugee Crisis
Thanks to the effects of war, economic instability, and climate change, the world is currently enduring the worst refugee crisis since World War II. According to annual figures released from the United...
View ArticleWhat I Learned Using An App To Design A House For Alzheimer's Patients
I'm standing in a ghastly living room of paisley walls, kaleidoscope carpets, and dreary accents. Everything's beige, like some kid barfed a stomach full of Silly Putty and Pudding Pops all over...
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This Digital Frame Autonomously Plugs Itself In To Charge
Although we've all probably given one to our parents for Christmas, conventional wisdom is that digital photo frames kind of suck. They've got bad interfaces, tiny screens, and need to be plugged in...
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BioLite's Latest: A Flatpack Lantern That Doubles As A Mini Smartgrid
Most camping lanterns seem plenty bright indoors, but outside, at your campground, they get swallowed up by the darkness of the wilderness. This is doubly true with LED lanterns. Although they're...
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Google Just Fixed One Of The Biggest Pain Points In Mobile UX
Multitasking is a huge headache in mobile. Something as simple as texting the address of a bar to someone you're meeting can require traversing three different screens and half a dozen taps. Google's...
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