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Apple Patents A Clever UI Trick For Using Your Phone With One Hand
Criticizing larger, so-called "phablets," Steve Jobs once said that the iPhone was the perfect size, because you could easily use it with one hand. Today, though, the majority of smartphones Apple...
View ArticleType Is The Most Important Element Of Your Company's Brand
"Type is your brand," says type legend Bruno Maag, founder of font studio Dalton Maag.Sure, he's biased. As a font designer with a career spanning over 25 years, Maag has worked for The New Yorker,...
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How Apple Made The Watch Work For Wheelchair Users
In America alone, there are more than 2.2 million people who depend upon wheelchairs to get around every day. But most wheelchair users aren't active. They're more sedentary, on average, than those who...
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What Makes A Map Beautiful, According To A Parks Ranger
Clambering in the back of a van or station wagon and driving with your folks to your nearest national park used to be a summer tradition. Certainly, it was for Matt Holly, who grew up to be a national...
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Ikea Will Recall 29 Million Dressers For Fatal Design Flaw
Ikea's cheap, cheery Malm dressers are a mainstay of college dorm rooms and small apartment bedrooms around the country. But these dressers also have a dark side: they easily tip over, a design flaw...
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Google And Ideo Are Building A Coding Platform--For Kids
These days, everyone's saying that it's important for kids to learn to code—and, in turn, it feels like every company is coming up with its own proprietary systems to do so.Now here comes Google, late...
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Ikea USA President: "Unprecedented" Dresser Recall To Prompt Design Changes
Ikea USA has just announced the biggest recall in the company's history. The company is offering full refunds or free anchoring repair kits for every single chest, dresser, or bureau the company has...
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Distilling The Visual Language Of Video Games Into A Clever Logo
Perhaps even more than other kinds of identities, the logos of video game companies need to do a lot of heavy lifting. There are the usual requirements, of course. It must flexibly adapt to both print...
View ArticleThe Instagrams Of People Riding L.A.'s Skyslide Are Amazing
In March, we reported on a vertigo-inducing glass slide slated for the side of L.A.'s tallest skyscraper. Skyslide, created by the glassmakers M. Ludvik & Co, is now open to the public, and it...
View ArticleThe Music Box Gets An Update For The Digital Era
Music boxes can be hypnotic. Open one, and you'll usually see a metal barrel with raised bumps, turning round and round to pick away at the musical teeth of a comb. Captivating as music boxes are,...
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The 5 Biggest Furniture Recalls In U.S. History (And How Ikea Compares)
After news leaked that they would be recalling up to 29 million chests and drawers in the wake of the third child death in three years, Ikea USA president Lars Petersson described the recall as...
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Giphy's New Brand Identity Uses Holograms To Bring GIFs Into RL
If GIFs are the lingua franca of the Internet, Giphy is its Webster's. The San Francisco startup has gone from a GIF search engine to a popular GIF-making platform and plug-in valued at an estimated...
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Report: NYC's Google-Backed Wi-Fi Kiosks Are A Privacy Nightmare
Earlier this year, The Village Voice's business department got a bright idea: why not put Bluetooth beacons on their red distribution boxes to keep tabs on how they're doing? So they called up Gimbal,...
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This DIY Spy Kit Turns Your Surveillance Into GIFs
In 2016, surveillance of private citizens is widespread. The government does it. So what's stopping you? "That's what we're after: the democratization of surveillance," says Simon Caspersen of...
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A Comic Book Artist Reinvents His Craft For Blind Readers
Comics seem like they would be easy to adapt for visually-impaired readers. Just raise up the comic lines, like braille, and you can "feel" the story, right? Think about it for a few moments, though,...
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Portraits Of The People Who Live In (And Love) Brutalism
From outside, the towers of the Barbican Estate looks positively Ballardian. The Barbican is the best-known example of Brutalism in London, and perhaps the world: a concrete castle-city (whose name...
View ArticleIkea Just Released Its Weirdest Ad Yet
Ikea has just released a surreal little ad for its upcoming collaboration with the Danish design brand Hay. It's what Philip K. Dick would see if he tried to Feng Shui his apartment.The ad takes place...
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The UI That Could Help Make E-Sports A $100 Billion Industry
With 2.2 billion fans worldwide and $124 billion in revenue, professional sports is big business. But ask Mike Sepso, senior vice president of Activision Blizzard Media Networks, and he says that's...
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A Robot Designed To Teach A New Generation Of Roboticists
Alexander Enoch is a roboticist twice over. Not only does he have a PhD in robotics from University of Edinburgh, where he specialized in designing walking bipedal bots, but he attained a Master of...
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Wanted: A Simple Way To Make Your Open Plan Office Suck Less
Open offices are terrible. The acoustics are nerve-racking, they stress out workers, and they destroy any semblance of privacy. The good news, though, is that there are some great aftermarket solutions...
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