There are some kinds of work that you can't do well without thinking differently from your peers. To be a successful scientist, for example, it's not enough just to be correct. Your ideas have to be both correct and novel. You can't publish papers saying things other people already know. You need to say things no one else has realized yet.
Easily create 3D web experiences without coding. Build and iterate fast with production-ready results.
Traditionally Macs are not considered very gaming friendly. Compared to Windows PCs the Mac game library is smaller & PCs typically come with broader support for GPUs many games get optimized for. With the latest Apple Silicon Macs this is about to change.
Notabag is the smart combination of a bag and a backpack. It is an eco-friendly solution that simplifies our active lifestyle.
Within a month of each other, the Lucid Air and new Mercedes S-Class showed themselves to the world. Even though they are direct competitors, their views on luxury are very different. The S-Class has always been a high-tech pioneer. Each model shows off a wide range of technological innovations. The Lucid is an all-electric newcomer to the market with a focus on well-being and minimal design. The difference between the two views of luxury is highlighted in the UI design of both cars.
A web font workflow is simple, right? Choose a few nice-looking web-ready fonts, get the HTML or CSS code snippet, plop it in the project, and check if they display properly. People do this with Google Fonts a zillion times a day, dropping its "link" tag into the "head"
I remember when I first discovered Line Rider, that Flash game from 2006 with the simple premise of drawing a track for a sledder to ride on. I was immediately sucked into it, doing things like devising elaborate tracks for the rider to overcome, building worlds for the rider to explore, and manipulating the rider to perform stunts.
Well, 2020's been a rough year. An absolute dumpster fire of a year for a lot of people. That's when it came to us. Can email be a conduit for catharsis? If you could type out an email, press send, and see it being consumed in an actual dumpster fire, would it help reclaim a little bit of what we've lost? Let's find out.
A hydropower Bluetooth shower speaker, made from 100% recycled ocean plastic. Fits any showerhead. 360° immersive and bold sound.
Minority or endangered languages are facing a crisis. According to UNESCO, at least 43% of the estimated 6000 languages spoken in the world are endangered. Even though my grandparents spoke an endangered language and language preservation has been my passion for many years, I only recently understood that fonts
Usually, we position elements on our web pages in static, explicit places. But what if we want to make them feel more alive, or move them based on loose rules?
In 1970, at age 39, painter John Baldessari took his entire life's work of rather average landscape paintings, lit it ablaze, and watched decades of work burn to ash.
Protect your identity by using a synthetic profile picture that reminds people of you! Simply upload a photo of yourself and we will return the generated photo that shares your features. Stay safe online. Give people an idea of your appearance without risk.
The infinitely zooming image. It seems impossible but the artwork keeps on zooming endlessly, revealing worlds within worlds, like a fractal.
With Wavium, you can bring all of your content together and get a homepage that automatically updates whenever you create anywhere online. Turn page visitors into email and text message subscribers and engage them with blog posts, newsletters, and texts.
In this article, I explain how I did a data-driven analysis of four design job titles: Product Designer, UX Designer, UI Designer and Visual Designer. The analysis is based on job ads from companies such as Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Fitbit, Google, Ikea, Netflix.
Should you use a checkbox? Or should you use two radio buttons? Which one should you use when you can use both?
Another year, another UI trend is becoming increasingly popular among designers. Do you know it yet?
First-principles thinking is one of the best ways to reverse-engineer complicated problems and unleash creative possibility. Sometimes called “reasoning from first principles,” the idea is to break down complicated problems into basic elements and then reassemble them from the ground up. It’s one of the best ways to learn to think for yourself, unlock your creative potential, and move from linear to non-linear results.
The New York Times crossword has been criticized for being too old, too white, and too male. They publish more puzzles by men than by women, their clues can be a bit outdated (and even offensive), and a few editors at the top can use their power to maintain the status quo.
With AirBuddy, you can simply open your AirPods case next to your Mac and see the current status right away, just like how it works on your iPhone or iPad. With just a click you’ll be instantly connected and playing your Mac's audio through your AirPods.
A platform that you can virtually wander around the world. During covid-19 times that traveling is difficult, take your time to explore the world from your screen.
Below you will find a list of ideas, over 3,300. Feel free to grab any idea that interests you. The list will be updated daily, so make sure to check back to inspire your own idea generation.
In the mind’s eye of many people, Japan is a land of tranquil Zen gardens, serene temples, and exquisite tea ceremonies. Both traditional and contemporary Japanese architecture, books and magazines are the envy of designers worldwide. Yet for some reason practically none of this mastery has been translated into digital products, in particular websites, most of which look like they hail from around 1998.
This is a fun product that could avoid a boring day by randomly suggesting things to do! This fun little tool is built on BoredAPI for the data, but has a fun intuitive way to generate the random activities.
3 Medical Bills made into paintings, sold to pay off the bills. A new artwork by MSCHF.
Two people starting to play on the same song, at the exact same time.
A smart helmet that delivers style, safety and comfort with a state-of-the-art light system, ventilation, MIPS and fall detection.
Bird Buddy notifies you of feathered visitors, captures their photos and organizes them in a beautiful collection!
At Halide HQ, we’ve been busily working away on a very deep, technical analysis of what’s new in iPhone 12 cameras this year. All four of ’em. On Friday, we got our hands on the final iPhones in this year’s line-up, the iPhone 12 mini and the iPhone 12 Pro Max.
ClearVPN by MacPaw is the first effortless VPN for a personalized and secure online experience. The app offers ready-made solutions that instantly adjust user’s network settings to the current needs: access content, unblock sites, encrypt the connection, etc.
A journey inside the mind of Samuel Day, an award-winning designer based in Berlin. Looking to start a creative web project?
When I started on Twitter I had no idea what I was doing. So I made one big Google Doc where I started saving all the best “brand tweets” and grouped them into categories. I've spent the last few weeks turning that into this little handbook. Hope you find it useful.
New program reduces App Store commission to 15 percent for small businesses earning up to $1 million per year. Apple today announced an industry-leading new developer program to accelerate innovation and help small businesses and independent developers propel their businesses forward with the next generation of groundbreaking apps on the App Store.
Today, we’re excited to share some details of our Big Sur update. Refreshing our UI for Apple’s latest OS has taken countless hours of hard work, tough decisions and careful revisions from dozens of people across the Sketch team. We want to say a big thank you to them all — we’re incredibly proud of the work they’ve done.
How we’re making Polaris more cohesive by emphasizing user insights. A lesson that we’ve learned at Shopify from building Polaris is that maintaining a system takes more effort than building it. That’s because design systems inevitably create debt. Components will be used and forked in unpredictable ways. Dependencies can make it difficult to predictably make a change. We ran into these issues while rolling out a new design language for Shopify’s admin in October. The time it took to test the impact of a small visual change across the product slowed down the rollout.
