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Airbnb's Secret Tool For Designing For Every Person On The Planet
Designing an app like Airbnb's might not seem very complex. A dozen screens, maybe more, maybe less. But that's just in English. Airbnb's app also has to support 20 languages, some of which are compact...
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Moog Built A Synthesizer To Mix Every Sound On Earth
Since 2009, Yuri Suzuki—a sound designer whose diverse interactive works include a musical robot train and a kid-friendly circuit board that turns everything into a musical instrument—has traveled the...
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This Neural Network Reveals Your City's Secret Patterns
What if you could search the topography of the real world as easily as you search the Internet, all in real time? Terrapattern is a new search engine that does just that. Created by a team led by data...
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Turning Wi-Fi Network Names Into Art
Your router's SSID—or the field that lets you specify your Wi-Fi network's name—has long been a beloved haunt of techno-pranksters, who enjoy filling it with profane messages and strings of poop emoji....
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These Shoes Help You Live In The Present--By Shutting Up Your Phone
Most companies working on smart fashion right now are trying to link your clothes to your devices. Google's Project Jacquard turns your jeans into a touchscreen; MIT is working on vibrating shoes that...
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Google Built A Giant Display Out Of Arcade Buttons, And It's Amazing
Our displays feel magical, but in its simplest form a display is only an array of switches, flicking between states. Those switches can be anything: whether pixels of light or the cards on an old-time...
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How Sneaker Designers Are Busting Knock-Offs With Bitcoin Tech
Every year, as much as $100 million in counterfeit sneakers is seized by U.S. customs alone. And that's just scratching the surface: Worldwide, counterfeit fashion is estimated to be a $600 billion...
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A Simple Button Could Fix One Of Mobile's Most Annoying UX Flaws
Imagine this scenario. You want to get a reservation for four at your favorite restaurant. How do you do it? Chances are, even if you're on a smartphone, you open your web browser, Google the...
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Inside The Design Of The Largest Telescope On The Planet
The arid climate of Chile's Atacama Desert is already one of the best places in the world to stargaze. But when the Giant Magellan Telescope opens there in the Las Campanas Observatory in 2025, it will...
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This Interactive Proves Just How Wrong Our World Maps Really Are
There are millions of reasons to love The West Wing, especially in a literally insane election year. But for design nerds, these four minutes in which White House Press Secretary C.J. Cregg takes a...
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Can Learning To Code Be As Simple As Lego?
Coding is notoriously abstract, yet consensus increasingly says we need to be teaching it to our kids as early as possible. So how do you teach abstract logic to kids who haven't even necessarily...
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These Woven Chairs Are Like Flyknit For Butts
What Nike's Flyknit technology does for your feet, Benjamin Hubert of U.K. design consultancy Layer wants to do for your butt and your back. Alongside the contemporary home furniture brand Moroso,...
View ArticleWhy Type Designer Tobias Frere-Jones Follows Trends, Not Rules
Co.Design has partnered with the Brooklyn design studio Hyperakt to bring you Lunch Talks, a video series of conversations with smart, creative people.—EdsHaving designed over 700 typefaces, Tobias...
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Has Cardboard Architecture's Moment Finally Arrived?
Houses built out of cardboard don't exactly scream luxury. The concept seems suited to playhouses at best, and homeless shelter at worst. But inspired by a crate of tomatoes, Dutch creator collective...
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IKEA Redesigns Its Big Blue Bag For The First Time Ever
Short of Swedish meatballs and Billy bookcases, the simple blue-and-yellow bag (technically known as the Frakta) might be IKEA's most iconic product. Debuting in 1996, more than 3 million Big Blues are...
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This Is Why Computers Crush You In Chess
There are more possible moves in a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe. So how do computers, which are officially better chess players than humans now, know which moves to make and...
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The Adult Coloring Book Trend Gets A Very Violent Parody
Modern Toss is a decade-old British cult comic by Jon Link and Mike Bunnage that is defined by its artists' misanthropic humor and a grubby art style, which looks like an anarchist's doodle book. It's...
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A Designer's Guide To Apple's WWDC
On Monday, Apple will be holding its Worldwide Developer Conference, an annual gathering in which Cupertino traditionally announces all of the major changes coming to its mobile operating systems—as...
View ArticleThese Hypnotic Dresses Respond To Ambivalence
Fashion is not just about covering up our naughty bits, or even about expressing ourselves. It's also about causing the people around us to feel something when they see what we're wearing: delight,...
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The London Underground's Iconic Typeface Gets A Redesign
There's no font as synonymous with a single city as Johnston, the official typeface of the London Underground. First commissioned in 1913 from its eponymous creator Edward Johnston to be used in...
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