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fastcodesign.com September 13, 2017
What’s Really Missing From The iPhone X? A New Metaphor For Computing

Bounding onto the stage yesterday, Apple’s head software engineer Craig Federighi showed off how the tech behind Apple’s new Face ID, a feature that allows you to unlock the newly announced iPhone X just by looking at it.
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fastcodesign.com September 12, 2017
Stores Are Not Town Squares

In the first few minutes of Apple’s annual iPhone launch event today, sandwiched between a dedication of the event space to the late Steve Jobs and a promotional video about the Apple Watch, audience members were treated to a brief interlude about the company’s architecture.
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fastcodesign.com September 12, 2017
Screw My iPhone, I Just Want The New Apple Watch

The Apple Watch Series 1 and 2 suck. Unless you are one of those sporty people, they are at best accessories for your iPhone. At worst, they are just dumb bling for your wrist. But the new series 3? The new series 3 makes me want to ditch my phone for the first time.
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fastcodesign.com September 13, 2017
Why Doctors And Cops Are Taking Art Observation Classes

Looking at art isn’t just a pleasurable way to spend a few hours. It also has real benefits for professionals who are far afield from the art world, from detectives to doctors.
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 May 30, 2013
Life After Kickstarter: 5 Costly Lessons From A Kickstarter-Backed Designer

As he saw interest balloon in the following weeks, Fawcett calculated how much additional molds for new versions of the Bobine would cost and introduced them correspondingly, as the pledge level grew higher and higher.
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 July 10, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 May 13, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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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 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 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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fastcompany.com May 10, 2016
The Future Of HR And Why Startups Shouldn’t Reject It

Amanda Moskowitz, founder of the startup leadership sharing resource Stacklist, sees these as one of the big ways startups are adapting to HR needs. Instead of hiring one or two new positions, companies are seeking out more siloed products in lieu of an entire human resources department.
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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 May 11, 2017
Exclusive: Google’s New AI Tool Turns Your Selfies Into Emoji

Machine learning and artificial intelligence have, for a couple years, been hailed as the death knell to almost everything you can imagine: The information we consume, the way we vote, the jobs we have, and even our very existence as a species.
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fastcodesign.com October 26, 2015
Life With My Robot Secretary

I’m not important enough to have what the rich and powerful call “people.” Most of us aren’t. The average personal assistant is paid about $31,000 a year, while the average wage for the U.S. job market is roughly $5,000 less than that.
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fastcodesign.com April 28, 2017
Wearables Aren’t Dead, But They Deserve To Die

I spent a good part of 2016 writing a book about wearable devices, so I got to take a deep dive into each category of wearables. The more I dug in, the more I realized that they’re just not that useful.
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fastcodesign.com June 12, 2017
The Sneaky Psychology Of Apple Pay–And How It Could Cost You

Paying someone through your phone has never been easier. Recently, Apple announced an Apple Pay update in iOS 11 that will let you send someone cash straight through iMessage–much like you can with Venmo or Facebook Messenger. And boy, does Apple make it easy.
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fastcodesign.com August 30, 2017
“Design Is Inherently An Unethical Industry”

This was the question designer and technologist Matt Webb asked earlier this week in a story about the widening gap between designers and the products and interface they create. We asked readers to write in and share thoughts on the matter. Here are some of their responses.
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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 March 27, 2017
Why Airport Runways Should Actually Be Circular

Since 2012, Hesselink and his team at the National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) in the Netherlands have been working on a runway design that’s circular instead of straight.
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fastcodesign.com June 26, 2017
Science Is Proving Why Urban Design Matters More Than Ever

It’s easy to make our cities attractive. Plant a few flowers, pick up litter, put up a sculpture or two. But cosmetic improvements don’t necessarily translate to meaningful change to public spaces.
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fastcodesign.com June 9, 2017
Can A Machine Choose Fonts And Colors Better Than You? Try It

Maybe you’re just feeling uninspired. Maybe you took a job that pays less than you’re worth. Look, I’m not here to judge. We’re all going to be working for AI in a few years anyway. So in the meantime, we might as well cash in on some easy work, compliments of the machines.
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fastcodesign.com August 3, 2017
5 Mind-Bending Experiments That Show Where Creativity Is Headed Next

Every year, the Association for Computing Machinery hosts a conference called Siggraph where artists, researchers, designers, and developers show off their work on computer graphics.
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fastcodesign.com July 25, 2017
The 1970s Design Manual That Quietly Shaped Everything You Use Today

The 1970s has been a frequently revisited decade in the design world lately, most notably in the resurgence of reissued graphic standards manuals from that era.
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fastcodesign.com January 4, 2016
The Most Important Design Jobs Of The Future

Yesterday’s graphic designers are today’s UX designers. Will tomorrow’s UX designers be avatar programmers, fusionists, and artificial organ designers? Yes, according to the illustrious roster of design leaders we spoke with here.
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fastcodesign.com July 17, 2017
Science: Doodling Has Real Benefits For The Brain

Many creative people know that making art is its own reward. Now science corroborates it.
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fastcodesign.com June 27, 2017
Graphic Design’s Next Great Challenge: Branding AI

James Cameron did the world a terrible disservice with The Terminator. Even today, society defines cutting-edge technology by steel and glowing red LEDs. And so most of us cannot distinguish the logic of machine learning from the world-ending singularity.
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fastcodesign.com August 9, 2017
“Fail Fast” In Software Design Is A Myth

Have you ever bought a lottery ticket? I admit, I’ve played a few times. You won’t be surprised to learn I never did win the big jackpot. Seeing winners on the evening news gives the false impression that anyone could win, but the odds of winning are long—very long.
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fastcodesign.com May 4, 2017
Proof That Design Is Good For Business, In 8 Statistics

This week, the National Endowment for the Arts released a report on the importance of industrial design to the United States’ economic health.
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fastcodesign.com August 28, 2017
This Chrome Extension Is Like X-Ray Vision For Web Design

What powers the sites you use every day? What language was it programmed in? What fonts does it use? How does it track people who visit? Those details usually take some digging to uncover–but a new browser extension for Chrome called WhatRuns instantly surfaces the tools and programs that power
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fastcodesign.com February 28, 2017
Why This Renowned Digital Design Agency Is Going Analog

In 2015, Huge did a funny thing. The design firm–best known for digital experiences like websites–opened a coffee shop. But soon its customers will see that it’s not just any coffee shop.
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fastcodesign.com July 14, 2017
Lessons On Branding From A Company That Has No Brand

As the name suggests, Brandless is trying to emphasize the products it sells rather than the brand itself. But creating the packaging for the 115 items the company sells as well as its graphic identity presented a unique challenge–how do you brand a company that’s called Brandless?
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fastcodesign.com February 23, 2017
From Facebook, 3 Essential Steps For Starting A Design Career

It’s an intimidatingly broad question, but one I get a lot.
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fastcodesign.com April 24, 2017
Creating A More Human Conversational UX: Lessons From Google

Voice Assistants such as Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, and Google Assistant allow us to interact with devices simply by talking to them. With these experiences becoming more common, brands need to learn how to craft conversations that feel natural and authentic.
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fastcodesign.com May 1, 2017
How To Build A Design Firm From Scratch

Carly Ayres, Andrew Herzog, and Nicky Tesla were happily toiling away at Google, when they collectively decided it was time to quit–and start their own design studio.
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fastcodesign.com May 18, 2017
What It Means To “Google” Something Just Changed Forever

When were we this excited about any Apple event? It’s honestly hard to remember. Because on stage at Google’s I/O conference this week, the company perfectly distilled how technology has changed in the 20 or so years since the introduction of Google’s ubiquitous search box.
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fastcodesign.com June 21, 2017
Design Didn’t Make Uber Good, But It Made Uber Great

I’ll never forget my first Uber. As cheesy as that sounds, I’m sure the feeling is shared by many of us of a certain age.
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fastcodesign.com August 15, 2016
These 12 Graphs Show Why Data Viz Is So Important

Why is data visualization so important in statistics, anyway? Graphs and other kinds of visualizations might seem superfluous, if you’re using statistical analysis to look for patterns in a data set, right? Short answer: wrong.
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fastcodesign.com April 25, 2017
What Happens When Google Turns Artists Loose On Its Search Data

As the data journalist Alberto Cairo, who is partnering with Google News Lab on a new artist-focused initiative, puts it: “The people we are collaborating with have this dual approach.
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fastcodesign.com July 10, 2017
The Dark Side Of “Friendly” Design

Everywhere you look a “friendly” brand stares back at you. Help Remedies sells doll-sized packets of over-the-counter medicine with tongue-in-cheek labels (“Help. I have a headache”) with a different color for each malady. An eco-water company calls itself Boxed Water Is Better.
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fastcodesign.com June 6, 2017
What Designers Can Learn From The Museum Of Failure (Yes, It Exists)

Just a six-hour train ride south of Stockholm in the town of Helsingborg, Sweden, there’s a little gallery with an abnormal mission. Instead of putting successful works of art or design up for admiration, it showcases absolute disasters. It’s called the Museum of Failure.
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fastcodesign.com February 16, 2017
12 Powerful Posters Of Female Scientists That Every Classroom Needs

Can you name five female scientists from history? Maybe you named one, or two. Chances are you remembered Marie Curie, the famed two-time Nobel Laureate whose work led to the discovery of radioactivity.
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fastcodesign.com May 30, 2017
Why The Rudest Chatbot Is The Best Chatbot

Choosing the right road means choosing the right way to understand the other side of the conversation. To what degree should a bot anticipate what’s happening on the other side of the wall? Anticipating the other side of the conversation is not a new communication problem.
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fastcodesign.com April 17, 2017
Adidas’s Secret Weapon In The Sneaker Wars

Chief marketing officer Eric Liedtke, a 20-plus-year veteran of the company, teamed up with the then-newly promoted global creative director Paul Gaudio in mid-2014 to lead a migration of the creative team from Adidas’s headquarters in the Bavarian town of Herzogenaurach, Germany, to Portland, Ore
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fastcodesign.com August 1, 2017
Airbnb Debuts A Toolkit For Inclusive Design

Earlier this summer, Airbnb paired up with the media startup News Deeply on an installation called Shadow to Light for San Francisco Design Week.
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fastcodesign.com May 17, 2017
7 Design Portfolios That Double As Awesome UIs

It goes without saying that having a professional website is a necessity for anyone in a creative field. But for designers, an online portfolio isn’t just an opportunity to showcase your past work–it’s also a way to show off your skills.
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fastcodesign.com May 15, 2017
Want To Understand The Future Of Design? Read These Books

The president communicates via Tweet. Artificial intelligence rates our outfits. We talk to our devices like they’re children.
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fastcodesign.com June 28, 2017
What Designers Can Learn From The New Science Of Eye Tracking

Designers loathe to be told to design something “eye-catching”—it’s the vaguest of briefs. But for Amy Alberts, a user research manager at the visual analytics company company Tableau, determining the things that catch a person’s eye is an exact science.
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fastcodesign.com April 10, 2017
From Frog, 3 Myths About What Makes A Designer Great

Particularly in industrial design, understanding and solving problems in the physical space is critical, and a love for and connection to materiality is a must. As with most things, balance is key.
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fastcodesign.com April 13, 2015
The Golden Ratio: Design’s Biggest Myth

In the world of art, architecture, and design, the golden ratio has earned a tremendous reputation. Greats like Le Corbusier and Salvador Dalí have used the number in their work.
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fastcodesign.com March 3, 2017
The NYT's New Look Is A Masterpiece Of Information Design

Readers of the print version of the New York Times opened up their papers yesterday to something new: Pages A2 and A3, located directly inside of the front page, have been completely reimagined. Gone is the corrections section, and the summary of articles within the rest of the paper.
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fastcodesign.com May 5, 2017
What Does It Take To Remake The UX Of A $90 Billion Industry?

Blink and you’ll miss one of the most telling details behind Hippo, a homeowner’s insurance startup launched last week.
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fastcodesign.com June 9, 2017
Why Green Branding Needs To Die

A client once flat-out refused to let us drive to a customer interview in California’s Central Valley. We knew something had ticked him off the minute we met him in the parking lot.
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