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The 5 Biggest User Interface Trends to Look for in 2017
tech.co - Adam Rowe
We already know marketers in 2017 will be dealing with a focus-shift from sheer numbers to strong engagement in a variety of ways. They’ll be relying …
Use a Raspberry Pi as a Hub for All Your Connected Devices
Lifehacker - Thorin Klosowski
The Raspberry Pi makes a great brain for your smart home and to show off just how much you can do with it, DIYer Frederick Vandenbosch demonstrates a …
The Underappreciated Value of Incremental Design
signalvnoise.com - Jonas Downey
The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_Model_118">Convair Model 118 Flying Car.There’s no such thing as a boring product update.Apple …
15 concept art skills to power up your illustration
creativebloq.com - Ross Dearsley
My formal training was in illustration, but I’d already spent a decade as a kid scouring books like the Art of Star Wars series and various other …
Microsoft's HoloLens Would Let Builders See Their New Building Before It's Actually There
Popular Mechanics - By David Grossman
Hello, holographic skyscrapers. The HoloLens, Microsoft's take on a virtual reality headset, wasn't built to play games. It places holographic images in the user's physical environment—the kind of augmented
GE’s Predix Design System
medium.com
Our first design system at GE, created in 2012, was similar to many design systems you find on the Internet today. It was designed to appeal to and …
The Open-Office Concept Is Dead
Fortune - Laura Entis
The staff at W&P Design, a New York-based startup that makes trendy barware and cocktail kits, has an unspoken policy: headphones in means “don’t …
6 Easy Steps To Better Icon Design
smashingmagazine.com - Scott Lewis is the Head of Content for Iconfinder.com as well as a professional icon designer. Scott earned a degree in graphic design from East Carolina … More about Scott
17 min read Share on Twitter or LinkedIn Smashing Newsletter Upgrade your inbox and get our editors’ picks twice a month. With useful tips for web devs. …
Dropbox will now show all your files locally without using any disk space
Ars Technica - Peter Bright
Dropbox will pick up OneDrive's best feature after Microsoft removed it. Dropbox will soon be adding support on both Windows and OS X for placeholder …
Tips for Creating Beautiful and Engaging UI
speckyboy.com - Stephen Moyers
Advertise here with BSA User interface, or UI, is a consideration in the design of anything created to be used. Although industrial and graphic …
Icons as Part of an Awesome User Experience
medium.com - Nick Babich
by Nick Babich Due to the limited screen space, we usually replace text labels with icons wherever possible. Icons take less space, they don’t have to …
The Most Design-Forward Sofa at IKEA (We've Been Spotting It Everywhere)
apartmenttherapy.com - Taryn Williford
Clean lines keep it chic, and deep seats and comfy cushions make it a really livable sofa for real people's real homes. Oh, and the affordable price …
Don’t Let Them “Gamify” Your Life
medium.com - Tor Bair
Many of the poorly designed games we play in life, such as work, need us to adapt them. Here’s how to think like a great game designer, not a lazy …
Ripley Has a Habit of Removing Her Jumpsuit at the Worst Moment in This 1986 Aliens Spoof
io9 - Charlie Jane Anders
Back when Aliens was the number one movie in America, Sigourney Weaver took to Saturday Night Live for their 12th season opener, and took part in an …
The 1-page usability test plan
medium.com - David Travis
How to sleep better at night A week or so before a usability test, I often have a least one bad night’s sleep where I wake up worrying that I’ve …
Twitter's new tactic to showcase Moments isn't interaction design, it's interference
TNW - Natt Garun
Twitter’s Moments feature has been out for a few weeks now, and it’s been doing a ton of work to amp up the tool. The Moments lightning bolt button is more prominent on Twitter’s mobile apps (pushing Highlights),
Level design; from paper to screen
gamasutra.com
The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra’s community. The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of …
Asteroids
Asteroid making surprise flyby at an 'unusually high' velocity
Engadget - Steve Dent
A newly discovered asteroid (not pictured) will make Halloween more thrilling by passing within 1.3 lunar distances (310,000 miles) of Earth. The object, which measures between 300 and 600 meters (1,000
Photographer Documents the Beautifully Uncommon Friendship Between a Wolf and a Bear
My Modern Met - Anna Gragert
Finnish Photographer Lassi Rautiainen expertly captures the beautiful relationship that’s shared between a gray wolf and a brown bear. One wouldn’t normally see this type of companionship in the wild,
The mistake we all make... and the simple experiment that reveals it
The Guardian
Bill Gates is the richest person in the world. At the age of 19, he dropped out of Harvard to start Microsoft, and in a few short years he made it the most profitable corporation in the world. It’s tempting
Here's the UI Redesign the Apple Watch Needs
Gizmodo - Luke Wroblewski
After wearing my Apple watch daily for the past two+ months, I’ve found myself wishing for a simpler interaction model for moving between content and …
5 Ways to be a Terrible Game Designer
gamasutra.com
The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra’s community. The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of …
You Can Feel These Plasma Holograms Made With Femtosecond Lasers
Gizmodo - Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan
With each passing year, engineers are getting closer to recreating the 3D interface technology that pop culture has rendered so clearly for …
Clickbait
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ted.com - Sally Kohn
Doesn't it seem like a lot of online news sites have moved beyond reporting the news to openly inciting your outrage (and your page views)? News …
Google
How Google Finally Got Design
Fast Company - By Cliff Kuang
Google’s transformation into a company that creates beautiful software is the story of how tech itself has evolved in the mobile era. It would have been crazy to say just a few years ago. But today, Google
Audi TT
Audi TT Augmented Reality Brochure Brings a Virtual Cockpit to Life
Design Milk - Gregory Han
I’ve got a soft spot for the Audi TT. It was the first car I followed from concept renders to production line availability, and also the first car I …

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The 5 Biggest User Interface Trends to Look for in 2017

Use a Raspberry Pi as a Hub for All Your Connected Devices

The Underappreciated Value of Incremental Design

15 concept art skills to power up your illustration

Microsoft's HoloLens Would Let Builders See Their New Building Before It's Actually There

GE’s Predix Design System

The Open-Office Concept Is Dead

6 Easy Steps To Better Icon Design

Dropbox will now show all your files locally without using any disk space

Tips for Creating Beautiful and Engaging UI

Icons as Part of an Awesome User Experience

The Most Design-Forward Sofa at IKEA (We've Been Spotting It Everywhere)

Don’t Let Them “Gamify” Your Life

Ripley Has a Habit of Removing Her Jumpsuit at the Worst Moment in This 1986 Aliens Spoof

The 1-page usability test plan

Twitter's new tactic to showcase Moments isn't interaction design, it's interference

Level design; from paper to screen

Asteroid making surprise flyby at an 'unusually high' velocity

Photographer Documents the Beautifully Uncommon Friendship Between a Wolf and a Bear

The mistake we all make... and the simple experiment that reveals it

Here's the UI Redesign the Apple Watch Needs

5 Ways to be a Terrible Game Designer

You Can Feel These Plasma Holograms Made With Femtosecond Lasers

Don't like clickbait? Don't click

How Google Finally Got Design

Audi TT Augmented Reality Brochure Brings a Virtual Cockpit to Life