The Intercept recently reported that Apple CEO Tim Cook, in a private meeting with White House officials and other technology leaders, criticized the federal government’s stance on encryption and tech
Foursquare accurately predicted iPhone sales by analyzing foot traffic to Apple stores around the country. Foursquare One of the top-rated pizza places in Brooklyn on Foursquare is called Lucali. Adve
SR’s Fab 5 is a collection of inside scoop, analysis and insight from yours truly, PewterReport.com publisher and Bucs beat writer Scott Reynolds. Here are a few things that caught my attention this w
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It’s been just over a year since the masses “discovered” podcasting in the wake of Serial ’s blockbuster success. The wildly popular show was said to have reawakened a neglected art form—a breakthroug
A list of Sketch plugins hosted at GitHub, in alphabetical order. Note: if you want to add yours, just send a pull request, or use skpm to develop it (skpm takes care of publishing automatically). Onc
Op-Ed Contributor The New Atomic Age We Need Credit... Script & Seal THIS past summer, the Group of 7 nations promised “urgent and concrete action” to limit climate change. What actions exactly? Activ
Zainab Chaudry knows more about Islamophobia than most. As the spokesperson for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Chaudry advocates for mutual understanding between Muslim-Americans and the r
Who is Rey? Like much of the world last weekend, I had the sincere pleasure of seeing a brand new Star Wars movie. For an entire weekend (and two viewings) my younger brother and I regressed back to o
More than a fanboy of Apple, I’m a fanboy of sleek interfaces and living with the technology of tomorrow rather than dealing with the technology of yesterday. “[W]hen Apple moved to gestural-based int
The best icon is a text label Previously I wrote about clarity being the most important characteristic of a great interface. Let’s talk about icons now. They’re an essential part of many user interfac
(DeviantArt/luuqus) We are living through the most astonishing period of human progress in history. And nobody’s telling us about it. Published in Future Crunch · 13 min read · Dec 14, 2015 -- As 2015
In the Miami area, the daily high-water mark has been rising almost an inch a year. Illustration by Jacob Escobedo The city of Miami Beach floods on such a predictable basis that if, out of curiosity
The angriest and most pessimistic people in America aren’t the hipster protesters who flitted in and out of Occupy Wall Street. They aren’t the hashtavists of #BlackLivesMatter. They aren’t the remnan
When we started The Dialogue a while ago, I had a few people in mind that I absolutely wanted to interview. Matías Duarte is one of them. I’ve really enjoyed where Google Design has been heading recen
I can’t count the number of times I’ve seen a man who’s wearing what would be a very dapper get-up….except it’s ruined by wrinkly clothes. I see this especially with young, single professional men who
Apple today announced its very own battery cases for the iPhone 6 and 6S . And where Apple design chief Jony Ive and crew may have seen a practical way to improve the devices' longevity, the rest of t
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Sunday marked the first time the two quarterbacks chosen at the top of this year's draft won on the same day. It won't be the last. In Tampa, Florida, Jameis Winston somehow extricated himself from a
29 November, 2015 Some months ago, I took on the process of refactoring the distributed CSS library we use to build our products’ UI at TrialReach . The result of this refactoring was pretty impressive — for example, the library’s file size dropped from an already-lean 19kb down to a very…
Football can be a force for good. The University of Missouri’s football team proved it earlier this month when student athletes used a facet of campus life many often decry—the cultural and economic
Eric Hartline-USA TODAY Sports The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will try for their third straight win as they take on the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday, a team also looking to increase their winning streak to
Ranked among the Top 10 College Towns, the University of Missouri plays a major role in Columbia’s economy and culture and is a big reason why the city has repeated appearances on the Top 100 Best Pla
Editorial Mass Surveillance Isn’t the Answer to Fighting Terrorism It’s a wretched yet predictable ritual after each new terrorist attack: Certain politicians and government officials waste no time ex
English speakers know that their language is odd. So do people saddled with learning it non-natively. The oddity that we all perceive most readily is its spelling, which is indeed a nightmare. In coun
Once upon a time, Apple was known for designing easy-to-use, easy-to-understand products. It was a champion of the graphical user interface, where it is always possible to discover what actions are po
Several of the following contributors played college football or coach. I think this level of analysis helps to set this site apart. Let us know if you like it. Note: We are not wasting time on the Ma
First impressions last a lifetime, goes the adage. You’re going to have to forget your first impressions of the iPad to understand the iPad Pro. When Apple introduced the original iPad in 2010, it was
9 min read · Nov 1, 2015 -- You’ve heard of Amazon, right? Twitter? Google? Basically every major tech-powered industry in America that politicians now point to when they talk about American ingenuity
The fundamental goal I have for a wallet via its design is that it prevents me from randomly collecting crap. Years of folding leather wallets with myriad pockets and flaps all yielded precisely the s
October 2015 Here's a simple trick for getting more people to read what youwrite: write in spoken language. Something comes over most people when they start writing. They writein a different language
Economic segregation has some obvious consequences for how we live. It means that poor and rich children attend different schools , that their parents shop in different stores, that their families rel
SR’s Fab 5 is a collection of inside scoop, analysis and insight from yours truly, PewterReport.com publisher and Bucs beat writer Scott Reynolds. Here are a few things that caught my attention this w
In June 2012, while working at CNN.com , I was tasked with designing the user experience of election night. The next five months of my life would be dedicated to that single night—but success to me ha
The Democratic Party is in much greater peril than its leaders or supporters recognize, and it has no plan to save itself. Yes, Barack Obama is taking a victory lap in his seventh year in office. Yes,
Published in Signal v. Noise · 3 min read · Oct 27, 2015 -- A couple of years ago, I did an experiment: I kicked sugar for three months. I’d have whatever naturally occurred in foods, but I wouldn’t e
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