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fastcodesign.com April 16, 2018
Apple’s New Design Ethos: Making Gadgets Easy To Sell, Hard To Use

I’d been pining for a new MacBook Pro for almost a year until last week, when a friend told me that she’d just paid $700 to get hers fixed at the Apple Store. The problem was simply that a speck of dust had settled under the spacebar.
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fastcodesign.com April 17, 2018
T-Mobile Slapped With A $40 Million Fine For Its Deceptive Design

If there’s a pantheon for dark patterns (sometimes known as “asshole design“), T-Mobile has earned a spot on it for this dreadful example of deceptive user experience. The company used fake ring tone noises to make customers think their calls were connecting–while in fact they were not.
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fastcodesign.com April 16, 2018
Tech Needs Architects

What can fintech learn from architectural design ? Surprisingly, quite a lot. I started my career in architecture, working for Norman Foster (architect of Apple’s headquarters) and then Fisher Park, set designers for the Rolling Stones.
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fastcodesign.com April 17, 2018
This Designer Is Fighting Back Against Bad Data–With Feminism

The walls at the Soho20 gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn, are covered in multi-colored Post-it notes, the kind you might find stuck to glass meeting room walls at a design firm or coworking space. But these notes are for a different kind of brainstorm.
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fastcodesign.com April 17, 2018
Flyprint, Nike’s Next-Gen Running Shoe, Is Just Plastic

The fabric looks like pearlescent mosquito netting or a screen door made of snakeskin. As it shimmers in an ever-changing array of pinks, oranges, and greens under the light, I can literally see right through it.
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fastcodesign.com April 16, 2018
This Is What A World Without Smartphones Looks Like

In the woods of rural West Virginia, there’s a town that technology forgot. Green Bank is a small village nestled in a valley of the Appalachians where, in the 1950s, the U.S. government established the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
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fastcodesign.com April 17, 2018
A**hole Design Is The Subreddit We Need Now

The site is a place where you can find “a very thorough list of exactly what NOT to do” as a designer, as the moderators explain.
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fastcodesign.com April 16, 2018
Bunk Beds Are Coming To A Plane Near You

In 2016, Airbus launched its own moonshot-style project. Its Silicon Valley-based innovation group, known as A³, set out to build a fully modular airplane that could be customized with plug-in modules ranging from cafes to gyms.
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fastcodesign.com April 13, 2018
Ad Legend George Lois: Magazine Covers Are “Trash Today”

Back in the 1970s, the average American was exposed to between 500 and 1,300 ads per day. But today, that number is probably closer to 5,000. That’s a lot of ads, and it’s up to designers to help products stand out in this ever-intensifying attention economy. That’s no small task.
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fastcodesign.com April 17, 2018
These Light Bulbs Are Sculptures You Screw Into Your Sockets

For over a century, our light bulbs have looked much like Thomas Edison’s original.
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fastcodesign.com January 27, 2017
How To Avoid A Rebranding Disaster: Lessons From The Sports World

In the past month, two major sports teams have completely overhauled their visual identities–much to the chagrin of their respective fan bases.
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fastcodesign.com February 24, 2017
The Real Difference Between Google And Apple

Steve Jobs has been granted 347 patents in the past decade, many awarded posthumously. By contrast, Google’s Sergey Brin and Larry Page only have a combined 27 over the same period. It’s a telling statistic about how Apple and Google operate differently.
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fastcodesign.com July 7, 2017
Nest Founder: “I Wake Up In Cold Sweats Thinking, What Did We Bring To The World?”

Tony Fadell’s wife likes to remind him when their three children’s eyes are glued to their screens that it’s at least partly his fault. Hard to argue.
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fastcodesign.com March 14, 2017
Forget Coding: Writing Is Design’s “Unicorn Skill”

These days many designers can code–an increasingly important skill for landing a job. But few are just as fluent in their own language as they are in Javascript. That presents a serious problem in terms of design. Users still depend on copy to interact with apps and other products.
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fastcodesign.com April 14, 2017
Minimalism Is Dead. Hello, Maximalism

Minimalism has held a tight grip on the modern design industry for the past decade. We embraced the Apple aesthetic, extolled the logic of Helvetica, and worshiped at the church of Dieter Rams. It served its purpose, most recently, as a correctional to the excesses of the 1990s.
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fastcodesign.com March 20, 2017
Ideo Studied Innovation In 100+ Companies–Here’s What It Found

How do you measure “innovation?” It’s something that every organization seems to be after–just look at AT&T’s Innovation Pipeline, Sephora’s Innovation Research lab, and the University of Pennsylvania’s punny Pennovation Center–but it’s extremely hard to quantify.
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fastcodesign.com March 5, 2018
The Design Theory Behind Amazon’s $5.6 Billion Success

Amazon is undoubtedly the most significant force in the digital transformation of commerce: an estimated 44% of all online sales are on Amazon, and more than one in three U.S. adults are estimated to be Amazon Prime members. The company had $5.
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fastcodesign.com July 14, 2017
AI Is Inventing Languages Humans Can’t Understand. Should We Stop It?

To you and I, that passage looks like nonsense.
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fastcodesign.com December 30, 2013
Google’s Dead-Simple Tool For Making UX Decisions: 2 Jars Of Marbles

Nothing is perfect. So even for the most successful platforms, design needs to continuously evolve.
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fastcodesign.com May 30, 2017
The Rise Of Auto-Complete Culture–And Why We Should Resist

A friend and fellow writer I hadn’t heard from for a while sent me an email the other day. She wanted some advice, and I readily offered it. Then she wrote me a nice response–the sort of casually witty, stupidly impressive little thing that no one I know could have written but her.
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fastcodesign.com May 31, 2017
We Studied Brands Around The World. What Consumers Want Isn’t What You Think

Traditional advertising went after “share of mind”–the idea was to get you to associate a brand with a single idea, a single emotion. Volvo: safety. Jaguar: speed. Coke: happiness. The Economist: success.
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fastcodesign.com May 22, 2017
Google’s 3 Secrets To Designing Perfect Conversations

We’ve all been frustrated when talking to a computer. Maybe it can’t understand what you’re saying. Maybe it hears you, but doesn’t understand what you mean. Or maybe it’s just a tedious chat with a cloying personality with whom you’d never choose to associate in real life.
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fastcodesign.com November 14, 2016
The Algorithmic Democracy

The day before the election, as millions of Americans were feeling confident that the vast majority of the country shared their opinions, a pair of researchers at the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute published a paper that looked closely at something many of us ignore
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fastcodesign.com January 3, 2018
10 New Principles Of Good Design

The upside: Designers thrive on questioning convention–on unearthing solutions to seemingly intractable problems. If 2017 revealed anything, it’s that good design has never mattered more; it’s just the parameters of “good design” that have changed.
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fastcodesign.com September 22, 2017
There’s An Entirely New Way Of Mapping The World, And It’s Brilliant

For centuries, people have relied on the same types of maps. Whether a map is interactive or hand-colored in a book, it offers latitude and longitude as the key indexes for getting from point A to point B.
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fastcodesign.com March 15, 2018
3 Essential Branding Lessons From A Rare Steve Jobs Interview

The year is 1986. Steve Jobs meets Paul Rand, the genius responsible for branding IBM, UPS, and Westinghouse. Having just been ousted from Apple, Steve asks Rand to create a logo for his new company, Next Inc. Rand accepts the job.
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fastcodesign.com February 14, 2018
Google Thinks The Future Of The Web Is . . . Email

When was the last time you were lost on your smartphone? Because for me, it was just this morning.
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fastcodesign.com June 20, 2017
And Just Like That, Google Becomes The World’s Largest Job Board

Monster. CareerBuilder. GlassDoor. LinkedIn. When you’re looking for a new job, you’re required to dig through countless job boards, managing logins and apps. Or it did. Now you can just google it.
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fastcodesign.com January 2, 2018
What Apple’s New Office Chairs Reveal About Work In 2018

Apple design chief Jony Ive keeps a low profile, but he’s social with a handful of Brits who sit atop the world of industrial design, including Jay Osgerby and Ed Barber, founders of the studio Barber Osgerby. A few years ago, the duo paid Ive a visit.
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fastcodesign.com February 13, 2017
With Amazon Books, Jeff Bezos Is Solving Digital Retail’s Biggest Design Flaw

As upscale outdoor shopping centers go, Seattle’s University Village is unusually forward thinking. There’s a Starbucks, of course, but also a sushi place where the dishes roll by on a moving belt and each plate has an RFID sensor on the bottom to digitally track its freshness.
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fastcodesign.com February 2, 2015
The Untold Story Of Shake Shack’s $1.6 Billion Branding

Last week, Shake Shack went public in an IPO that ballooned to $1.6 billion–cementing the brand’s journey from a one-off boutique stand in New York’s Madison Square Park to a multinational burger titan with restaurants reaching Moscow, Istanbul, and Dubai.
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fastcodesign.com February 21, 2017
A Ridiculously Simple Tool For Building Products People Love

I was a late adopter of Snapchat. When it first surfaced in 2011, I didn’t relate to its intended audience of college students who wanted to “chat” with photos that only lasted seconds. Fortunately for Snapchat, millions of others were savvier.
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fastcodesign.com May 30, 2013
Life After Kickstarter: 5 Costly Lessons From A Kickstarter-Backed Designer

The din started on May 7, 2012, the day Fawcett and his colleagues at Fuse Chicken, a four-person design outfit in Akron, Ohio, launched their first Kickstarter campaign.
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fastcodesign.com February 8, 2017
A Dead Simple Tool To Find Out What Facebook Knows About You

That’s the question behind the new Chrome extension Data Selfie.
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fastcodesign.com December 14, 2017
The Secret To Great Logos, From The Gurus Of Corporate Branding

This year the inimitable branding firm Chermayeff Geismar & Haviv celebrates its 60th anniversary. Over the past six decades, these godfathers of corporate graphic design created logos for PBS, MoMA, PanAm, NBC, Chase, and more.
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fastcodesign.com August 25, 2017
Dear Elon–Forget Killer Robots. Here’s What You Should Really Worry About

We’ve never met but I feel confident telling you this: It’s going to be okay, I promise. Put the coffee down, and the whiskey. The killer robots aren’t coming for us, despite your warnings last month (and, more recently, your call for an outright ban).
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fastcodesign.com December 21, 2013
4 Surprising App-Design Principles, From The Instagram Of Quick Quizzes

When we first wrote about Polar, an addictive app that invites you to make and take “this or that”-style quizzes, we called it “an object lesson in mobile design done very, very right.
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fastcodesign.com April 26, 2017
The Case Against Empathy

I’ve had my fill of empathy. Or to be more specific, all the talk of empathy in recent years. Don’t get me wrong. I’m all for a human-centric approach to design, one that puts users first and attempts to understand how the world looks to them.
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fastcodesign.com February 15, 2017
McDonald’s Just Innovated The Hell Out Of Straws

It arrives in a glossy black box, its sensual shape traced in shadow. My fingers grasp at the perfectly positioned pull-tab and slide the box open. There it sits, the product of the creative minds that helped birth Google’s Project Ara modular smartphone and projects for NASA and DARPA.
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fastcodesign.com February 21, 2018
This Design Generation Has Failed

A year ago, I was in the audience at a gathering of designers in San Francisco. There were four designers on stage, and two of them worked for me. I was there to support them.
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fastcodesign.com March 7, 2018
The War On What’s Real

Nine years ago, I sat at ground zero of the face-swapping revolution. I was inside the screening room of Ed Ulbrich, who was hot off building the technology that had transformed Brad Pitt’s visage in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
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fastcodesign.com November 3, 2017
Beyond The Cult Of Human-Centered Design

On the eve of a historical election, last year’s Fast Company Innovation Festival was about hope and potential. In the wake a historical upset, this year’s festival was about resilience, values, and impact that we as individuals, communities, and organizations should strive for.
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fastcodesign.com November 16, 2017
The Female Supercomputer Designer Who Inspired Steve Jobs

The product designer and mechanical engineer Tamiko Thiel was working for the Cambridge, Massachusetts, company Thinking Machines. She and her colleagues were building a supercomputer that proposed a radical new concept.
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fastcodesign.com August 2, 2017
The Golden Age Of UX Won’t Last. Here’s How To Prepare For What’s Next

When I started the digital design agency AJ&Smart in 2011, UX design was still so misunderstood that I spent the next three years just explaining to my clients what it actually was and why it was valuable (while also defining it to myself).
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fastcodesign.com March 29, 2017
A Reading Guide For Designers Who Want To Write

The 2017 Design In Tech Report, John Maeda’s influential industry overview, lists writing as a key design skill. There are several reasons why.
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fastcodesign.com May 1, 2017
Design Thinking Needs To Think Bigger

The following is the second of two excerpts from The Way to Design, a guide to becoming a designer founder and to building design-centric businesses. It was adapted and reprinted with the author’s permission. Read the first one, on the case against empathy, here.
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fastcodesign.com May 17, 2017
Google’s 18-Month Quest To Redesign Its Terrible Emoji

We’ve all been there. On Android or Gchat or Gmail, you try to send a crying emoji, or a grin. Basic stuff, really. But when you click the icon, you’re suddenly reminded that Google’s emoji are atrocious. Call them melted marshmallows, or congealed dollops of lard.
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fastcodesign.com February 13, 2014
10 Scientific Insights That Could Make You A Better Designer

In the design world, the term “persuasive design” tends to be met with a mix of intrigue, skepticism, and occasionally repugnance.
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fastcodesign.com May 9, 2017
Why UX Design For Machine Learning Matters

Machine learning is going to radically change product design.
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fastcodesign.com January 30, 2017
10 Principles For Design In The Age Of AI

We’re on the cusp of a new era of design.
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fastcodesign.com April 9, 2018
The Skeptic’s Case For Design Thinking

Design thinking has a lot of downsides. It can be very superficial. It can be very misleading and the outcomes that it produces can be disappointing. It can lead to bad design. But it offers a useful lesson on how designers think about democratization of our craft.
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fastcodesign.com December 5, 2017
Life Without The iPhone Is Pretty Damn Great

A lot has happened to me in the past month. I had a beautiful baby girl. I started cold brewing coffee. And after micro-slicing my thumb open for the thousandth time on its shattered screen, I swapped the SIM card out my iPhone to a pristine Pixel 2 on loan from Google.
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fastcodesign.com September 6, 2017
A Simple Design Flaw Makes It Astoundingly Easy To Hack Siri And Alexa

Chinese researchers have discovered a terrifying vulnerability in voice assistants from Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Samsung, and Huawei. It affects every iPhone and Macbook running Siri, any Galaxy phone, any PC running Windows 10, and even Amazon’s Alexa assistant.
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fastcodesign.com February 16, 2017
Want To Fight Inequality? Forget Design Thinking

In the days after a police officer shot Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, August 9, 2014, Antionette Carroll watched as her hometown erupted in protest. For weeks, hundreds of people showed up to the suburb of St. Louis to demonstrate opposite police in riot gear.
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fastcodesign.com September 20, 2017
A Wikipedia For Data Visualizations Is Here

You have one dataset, and countless ways to visualize it. Bar chart? Tree graph? The dreadful pie chart?
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fastcodesign.com July 11, 2017
Google’s Rules For Designers Working With AI

How do we make sure we’re designing artificial intelligence that takes human behavior into account? How do you integrate machine learning into a product or service while ensuring that it doesn’t perpetuate bias, oversimplify nuance, or bombard everyone with fake news? To put it bluntly, how do
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fastcodesign.com January 23, 2018
This Is The World’s First Graphical AI Interface

Machine learning and artificial intelligence are so difficult to understand, only a few very smart computer scientists know how to build them. But the designers of a new tool have a big ambition: to create the Javascript for AI.
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fastcodesign.com June 8, 2017
Meet Framer, The Prototyping Tool Used By Google, Facebook, And Uber

When product designers Koen Bok and Jorn van Dijk were working at Facebook in 2013, they often found themselves pitching new app ideas with traditional presentation slides.
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fastcodesign.com July 24, 2017
The Most Crucial Design Job Of The Future

If artificial intelligence has any hope of expanding our understanding of the world, rather than simply reflecting old biases, it needs radical transparency.
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fastcodesign.com January 8, 2018
Designers Finally Have A Seat At The Table. Now What?

About 15 years ago when I started at my first tech company, design was seen by most as an afterthought. Even as a senior designer, I wasn’t invited to meetings to present my work and couldn’t imagine anyone asking me to weigh in on a product decision.
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fastcodesign.com March 13, 2017
Adobe Is Building An AI To Automate Web Design. Should You Worry?

Adobe, one of the world’s largest and most powerful software companies, is trying something new: It’s applying machine learning and image recognition to graphic and web design.
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fastcodesign.com January 17, 2018
The Starbucks Logo Has A Secret You’ve Never Noticed

Her eyes command a warm confidence. Her hair ripples as an ocean wave that laps provocatively over her breasts. As the face of Starbucks since 2011, the Siren logo is alluring by design, beckoning you into the store to grab a latte or pastry.
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fastcodesign.com March 8, 2017
A Visual Guide To Statistics

Statisticians are one of the fastest growing jobs in the country–and for good reason.
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fastcodesign.com May 14, 2013
11 Rules For Great UX Design, Adapted From An Original Mad Man

Ogilvy felt it was important to tune into younger consumers. This meant having a team of young copywriters, stating that they “understand the psychology of young consumers better than I do.”
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fastcodesign.com December 11, 2017
Pinterest Sees The Future

This particular avocado was set on a boardroom table in Pinterest’s San Francisco headquarters. Surrounded by half a dozen colleagues, Albert Pereta approached the fruit and carefully aimed his phone.
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fastcodesign.com September 26, 2017
8 Design Principles To Live And Die By, According To Facebook, IBM, Pentagram, And More

Most designers have a set of principles upon which they loosely base their work. Dieter Rams, famously, had 10. But how often do you satisfy all of these tenets of your practice at once? Once in a while, if you’re lucky.
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fastcodesign.com December 14, 2017
9 Big Design Trends That Will Shape 2018

Everyone thought 2016 was bad. That was before 2017. Over the past year, we learned Russia used social media ads to meddle in our election. Our data was stolen from Equifax, Yahoo, and Uber. It felt like virtually every man in a position of power was revealed to be a total dirtbag. The list goes on.
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fastcodesign.com May 11, 2017
Exclusive: Behind Fluent Design, Microsoft’s Vision For The Future Of Interfaces

“I have to say, coming into that space really challenged me as a designer to really rethink a lot,” she remembers of her two years building HoloLens. Creating a holographic version of reality requires you to be part architect, part cinematographer, and part developer.
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fastcodesign.com June 23, 2017
How Ford’s New CEO Plans To Beat Tesla, Uber, And Google

In April 2017, the Ford Motor Company–114 years old, the second largest carmaker in the country behind General Motors, a stalwart of American manufacturing–was suddenly worth less than 14-year-old Tesla.
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fastcodesign.com April 9, 2018
Design Thinking Is B.S.

What’s missing in design as a practice and as a group of professionals? The one thing I feel is missing is a kind of sense of skepticism from designers. Digital platforms provide an incredible opportunity for us to make our voice heard.
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fastcodesign.com November 29, 2017
Google’s New AI Designs AI Better Than Humans Could

Four Google Brain research scientists–Barret Zoph, Vijay Vasudevan, Jonathon Shlens, and Quoc Le–recently released the results of a fascinating project with two objectives.
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fastcodesign.com November 30, 2017
Ditch Your Lame PowerPoint And Try These Apps Instead

Four years ago, FiftyThree—the team of ex-Microsoft creatives who launched a wildly popular iPad sketching app called Paper—was flush with venture capital and full of expansion ideas that they put into action. They started producing hardware: an iPad stylus called (unluckily) Pencil.
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fastcodesign.com May 26, 2017
Why Designers Are Reviving This 30-Year-Old Japanese Productivity Theory

Decades before Marie Kondo became the go-to Japanese organizational guru—transforming her name into a verb and selling more than 6 million copies of her book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up—another declutter philosophy became one of Japan’s biggest exports.
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fastcodesign.com May 2, 2017
22 Movies And Shows Every Designer Should Watch On Netflix

The Netflix queue is one of the most dangerous time-sinks on earth. But to designers, it can actually be a great source of inspiration, with everything from design documentaries to films that are pure visual art. Here are 22 must-see design movies and shows on Netflix.
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fastcodesign.com February 23, 2018
Why Do Google, Airbnb, And Pinterest All Have Such Similar Logos?

Why do so many tech companies’ logos look the same? From Google and Airbnb to Spotify and Pinterest, these companies have gradually shifted their branding from idiosyncratic typefaces to remarkably similar sans-serif fonts.
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fastcodesign.com January 23, 2018
10 Laws Of UX, Illustrated

Good design tends to follow general principles that give designers overarching guidelines to work within. But for user experience and interface designers, there are also laws that govern the nitty-gritty.
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fastcodesign.com August 8, 2017
A Designer’s Guide To Brainstorms That Are Actually Useful

The Apollo 13 Mission Control team faced a huge number of seemingly insurmountable obstacles after an oxygen tank exploded on board the 1970 mission to the moon.
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fastcodesign.com November 9, 2017
IBM’s Quest To Design The “New Helvetica”

IBM is no stranger to icons. Over the years, it’s created quite a few: the mainframe computer, the ThinkPad laptop, the Selectric typewriter, the Eye-Bee-M logo.
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fastcodesign.com March 27, 2018
Smartphones Are Killing The Planet Faster Than Anyone Expected

Before you upgrade your next iPhone, you may want to consider a $29 battery instead. Not only will the choice save you money, it could help save the planet.
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fastcodesign.com August 28, 2017
Have Designers Lost Control Of Design?

Do designers have an ethical responsibility toward their users? It’s a question that designers struggle with, as the products and interfaces they help bring into the world can have unintended consequences, from spreading fake news to exacerbating mental health problems.
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fastcodesign.com September 25, 2017
Study: Clean Design Really Is Better

You’re looking for rental cars, concert tickets, or shoes online. On some websites, you stick around and look for awhile; on others, you can’t get away fast enough.
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fastcodesign.com March 6, 2017
Nixon, NASA, And How The Federal Government Got Design

The federal government doesn’t stray too far from a few familiar topics when it comes to its agenda: the economy, health care, national defense, immigration, reproductive rights.
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fastcodesign.com January 2, 2018
The Fraught Future Of Monuments

Let’s get this out of the way: Public space is, and always has been, political. Public spaces are the sites of protest–the places we exercise democracy. And as 2017 made unabashedly clear, many are also spaces of institutionalized oppression.
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fastcodesign.com May 19, 2017
The Ingenious Way TV Logos Were Made Before Computers

Today, incorporating physical objects into digital design is a way to create a unique aesthetic or a new perspective on a project.
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fastcodesign.com December 14, 2015
10 Key Design Trends For 2016 (And How To Make The Most Of Them)

Apps as we know them will disappear. Luxury will trickle down to the masses. VR will go mainstream. These are just a few of the major design and technology trends shaping the world in 2016.
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fastcodesign.com August 21, 2017
A Wild Vision Of The Future Run By Amazon And Whole Foods

Austin-based design firm Argodesign is betting on the latter. As a thought experiment, the studio mocked up a provocative series of concepts suggesting what an Amazon Foods could look like, if powered by drones, Echo refrigerators, and a sharing economy model reminiscent of Airbnb or Uber.
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fastcodesign.com April 6, 2017
This Company Will Design Your House For Less Than The Price Of Your Phone

When Alexis Rivas was working for a high-end residential architecture firm in Toronto, he marveled at what big budgets–think between $40 and $100 million per project–could accomplish: beautiful finishes, custom millwork, door handles that had a subtle glow so you wouldn’t have any trouble find
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fastcodesign.com September 18, 2017
What Comes After User-Friendly Design?

“User-friendly” was coined in the late 1970s, when software developers were first designing interfaces that amateurs could use. In those early days, a friendly machine might mean one you could use without having to code.
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fastcodesign.com December 21, 2017
The 14 Most Important Interfaces Of 2017

We went on and on about new smartphones and stunning new buildings this year, but many of the best designs of 2017 were actually hidden in the software all around us.
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fastcodesign.com July 21, 2017
Adobe Just Built The Prettiest UI Ever

There is nothing quite like an artist’s palette. With this humble piece of paper or wood, the artist can mix infinite pigments, each of which can be dipped into again and again without a second thought. FiftyThree’s Paper did an incredible job at streamlining the palette for iPad screens.
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fastcodesign.com September 20, 2017
Logitech Quadrupled Its Profits–With One Big Design Idea

As Logitech’s CEO since 2013, he sketched out a quick presentation for me that he’d probably given 1,000 times by then. His plan was this: Reimagine Logitech–one of the world’s largest hardware companies, with $2 billion in revenue–as a design-led company.
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fastcodesign.com October 2, 2017
Try This Time-Obsessed Designer’s Approach To To-Do Lists

There are countless to-do apps designed to help us be more productive–but no matter the strategy, it’s very easy to lapse back into old habits after a few weeks. The designer Jake Knapp knows the struggle, having fallen off the wagon himself.
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fastcodesign.com June 28, 2017
The Next Big UX Revolution Is Quietly Taking Shape–At Work

Think about all the frustrating products you’ve used at work. Expense reporting apps. Outdated CRM systems. Database management tools. In the world of B2B products, UX has historically been an afterthought. But the status quo is changing.
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fastcodesign.com March 10, 2018
The Most Important Design Skill For An AI-Dominated World

But for John Maeda, the head of computational design and inclusion at WordPress’s parent company Automattic, designers should see the rise of AI as an opportunity to focus their attention on the types of skills that algorithms don’t have.
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fastcodesign.com February 3, 2015
5 Trends That Will Shape The Future Of Tiny Housing

Nonprofit think tank the Urban Land Institute has just released a new report on the future of micro-housing. Here’s what to expect from the burgeoning world of compact urban living: Apartments will be small, but not too small.
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fastcodesign.com January 13, 2017
100 Years Of Infographics From National Geographic

The fact that National Geographic continues to be a collector's item when other print magazines are struggling—there's even a popular eBay guide for selling them—is testament as much to its artwork as to its articles.
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fastcodesign.com January 31, 2017
Holy Crap, This Map Of Trump’s Business Network Is Terrifying

Trump has an extraordinary number of business ties. But just how complex is his network–and how big are the potential conflicts of interest? In a word: Yuuuge! Designer Kim Albrecht created two visualizations that map Trump’s network from a macro and micro perspective.
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fastcodesign.com November 14, 2017
The Simple Idea That Drives Creativity At Amazon, Airbnb, And Dell

When I first joined Frog design, a global innovation firm, my role was as an individual creative contributor. I was responsible for making things that helped clients better understand the business problems they faced, and offering creative solutions to those problems.
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fastcodesign.com October 17, 2017
Exclusive: Ideo’s Plan To Stage An AI Revolution

Today, the design consultancy Ideo announced that it has acquired Datascope, a Chicago-based data science company.
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fastcodesign.com April 10, 2017
This Google-Backed Data Viz Platform Was Designed For Non-Coders

Here’s a little known fact about data journalists: While they are masters at creating compelling stories with data and making that information accessible, they are not, by and large, coders.
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fastcodesign.com August 22, 2017
Why Blockchain Needs Design

The global supply chain is incredibly complicated, with millions of ships and airplanes and trucks bringing goods thousands of miles across the world, crossing national boundaries, and changing hands along the way.
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fastcodesign.com July 7, 2017
Scientifically Speaking, Your PowerPoint Sucks

When I spoke to five leading designers last year about how they design presentations, Meg Beckum, a creative director at the brand engagement firm Sullivan, had some straightforward advice. “Don’t treat a presentation like a brochure,” she told me.
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fastcodesign.com October 6, 2017
How A Pair Of Orange Scissors Made Design History

Picture a pair of scissors, and there’s a good chance they’re orange. But have you ever wondered why? It’s all thanks to the 368-year-old Finnish company Fiskars, whose ubiquitous orange scissors turned 50 this month.
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fastcompany.com May 10, 2016
The Future Of HR And Why Startups Shouldn’t Reject It

In 2012 a curious person on the web–likely an enthusiastic entrepreneur–asked a simple question on Quora: Does a startup need an HR person? This was in the infancy of the current boom–or bust–we’re now in; Now-defunct shopping website Fab had just raised $117 million; Pinterest landed $100
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fastcodesign.com June 2, 2017
This Startup Uses Machine Learning To Turn UI Designs Into Raw Code

Being a UI or graphic designer who can also code gives you a leg up in today’s world of digital design.
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fastcodesign.com May 4, 2017
Why Humans Are Obsessed With Circles, According To Science

From the sun, moon, and planets, to the eyes that give us sight, the circle is everywhere in the natural world. But it’s also stamped everywhere in the human-made world: From wheels and domes to logos and infographics. It’s a form that is utterly pervasive.
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fastcodesign.com March 1, 2017
The Art Of Manipulating Algorithms

This winter, the events that led to President Trump’s election reverberated through the technology and design world.
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