Interaction Design The 5 Biggest User Interface Trends to Look for in 2017tech.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 …
Play buttonRaspberry Pi Use a Raspberry Pi as a Hub for All Your Connected DevicesLifehacker - 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 Designsignalvnoise.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 illustrationcreativebloq.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 TherePopular Mechanics - By David GrossmanThe 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 reality you've been hearing
GE’s Predix Design Systemmedium.com - Jeff Crossman 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 DeadFortune - 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 — Smashing Magazinesmashingmagazine.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… Upgrade your inbox and get our editors’ picks 2× a month. Earlier issues. Icon and vector marketplaces like Iconfinder (where I work) are making …
Play button Dropbox will now show all your files locally without using any disk spaceArs 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 …
Essential Tips for Creating a Beautiful & Engaging UIspeckyboy.com - Paul Andrew User interface, or UI, is a consideration in the design of anything created to be used. Although industrial and graphic designers also use UI design …
Icons as Part of an Awesome User Experiencemedium.com - 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 be …
IKEA 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 Lifemedium.com - Tor Bair Is your life an RPG? Is it a first person shooter? Is it Solitaire, or more like Minesweeper? It doesn’t really matter what you call the game of your …
Crowdfunded Projects Use Raspberry Pi and ODROID Boards into Home Theater PCs and Retro Game Consolescnx-software.com - cnxsoft I've been tipped about two separate projects launched on Indiegogo and Kickstarter that integrate Raspberry Pi or ODROID boards into their products.
Charlie Jane Anders Ripley Has a Habit of Removing Her Jumpsuit at the Worst Moment in This 1986 Aliens Spoofio9 - 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 planmedium.com - David Travis 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 forgotten something. Do the …
Twitter's new tactic to showcase Moments isn't interaction design, it's interferenceTNW - Natt GarunTwitter’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),
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Level design; from paper to screengamasutra.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 …
Asteroid making surprise flyby at an 'unusually high' velocityEngadget - Steve DentA 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 BearMy Modern Met - Anna GragertFinnish 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 itThe GuardianBill 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
Apple Watch Here's the UI Redesign the Apple Watch NeedsGizmodo - 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 Designergamasutra.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 …
SIGGRAPH You Can Feel These Plasma Holograms Made With Femtosecond LasersGizmodo - 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 …
How Google Finally Got DesignFast Company - Cliff KuangGoogle’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
