Carlos E. Perez Mar 12, 2018 Photo by Quino Al on Unsplash In my most recent post, I offered the idea that the purpose of Artificial Intelligence should be to support this idea of Ikigai (生き甲斐): A reason for being. Melody Wilding wrote a Medium article that may serve as a good introduction to the…

Every company is building its own Design System, to be able to manage design at scale and create consistency for users. Here are a few directions for you to get started. Fabricio Teixeira Feb 7, 2018 Design system : a series of components that can be reused in different combinations, allowing…

Wabi-sabi embraces imperfection, impermanence, and the passing of time. It's the acceptance of what is, and the appreciation of the impermanence of what is.

As we look ahead into 2018, the team at Adobe Stock has been tracking the visual conversation around the world — from shows and galleries, to brand campaigns, and our own stock collection — to put together a list of the biggest visual trends to watch in the coming year. Our trend forecast is…

Ever linger over an image of a quiet landscape, or long for a moment of solitary contemplation? You’re not alone. In a chaotic digital age, silence is in short supply. And artists and brands are responding with escapes into Silence and Solitude — our first visual trend for 2018. We’re seeing a…

A few months ago, while dining at Veggie Grill (one of the new breed of Chipotle-class fast-casual restaurants), a phrase popped unbidden into my head: premium mediocre. The food, I opined to my wife, was premium mediocre. She instantly got what I meant, though she didn’t quite agree that Veggie…

Theory & Practice Paying it Forward: Stuart Franklin on teaching the next generation of photographers The Magnum photographer, author and educator explains what there is to gain from studying photogra

Theory & Practice Tips for Long-term Photographic Projects Five lessons in developing and sustaining a long-term photographic project from Magnum and industry insiders Matt Black Homeless camp. Fresno, California, USA. 2014. © Matt Black | Magnum Photos Documentary photography projects may develop…

The sudden death of many apps is now inevitable. And this is why I think it will happen.

To make this transition from UX Designer to…. “Product Designer”, there are 3 things you’ll need to understand: Product Strategy, Growth and Marketing.

John Accent talks to an acclaimed designer and influencer about the importance of inclusion, the future of design, and the open web. Maeda (Automattic) Share Tweet Pin it Link “Designers’ role will be to support the social conscience of the product” ANNA SAVINA Author LIA BEKYAN Photographer John…

Illustration: Madeline Rawlings Personality is the new UX. Jess Thoms May 29, 2017 C onversational interfaces have reduced user experience down to a few lines of text. With bots, UX becomes conversational, products talk back, and persona’s now go both ways. Every bot has a voice — which means every…

The best guess is that humans currently speak about 6,900 different languages. More than half the global population communicates using just a handful of them—Chinese, English, Hindi, Spanish, and Russian. Indeed, 95 percent of people communicate using just 100 languages. Recommended for You CERN…

This post shows just a few of the many ways in which design choices can enable different kind of privacy approaches, focusing on informing users and giving them better control. Privacy is shaped by more than law, policy or technical capabilities. Coming from a human rights background, I have become…

These days, talking to a bot is commonplace. Think Siri, or your chatty banking app. But you wouldn’t talk to your toaster like you talk to a friend — unless your toaster had a great sense of humor. RYGERSZEM/Getty Images/iStockphoto “My daughter has known the difference between right and wrong…

What is Artificial Intelligence? Sam DeBrule Apr 5, 2017 Quick note before you dive in: This post (largely based on recent McKinsey Global Institute and Executive Office of the President reports) includes some doom and gloom about the negative impacts artificial intelligence may have on your life…

In this article I’ll show you a case study describing an entire process of designing a conversational UI for a B2B website.

Digital platforms (...) must bear some responsibility for the lack of awareness of the importance of narrative in visual storytelling.

We are looking forward to how UX will evolve in 2017. Here’s our take on looking at the past, understanding the present, and anticipating what the future holds.

The numbers paint a bleak picture for native app success rates that teams need to be aware of when they make important decisions about how to build a new app.

From now on, I won’t be building any more native apps. All my apps going forward will be progressive web apps.

You are still free to fuck up any way you like, but at least you can now avoid the exact same ways I’ve fucked up :)

Object Detection using Deep Learning for advanced users (Part-1) Prologue :This is a three part series which will elaborate on Object Detection in images using

My journey to becoming a web developer from scratch without a CS degree, 2 years later (and what I learned from it)

Like everybody else, I recently came across Jose Aguinaga’s post “ How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016 ”. It’s clear that this post hit a nerve.

In its lack of concern to look comfortable, Brutalism can be seen as a reaction by a younger generation to the optimism and frivolity of today's webdesign.

"Designers need to trust their potential to create more. Having so much information available is not good."

There has never been more debate on whether having a degree from an art school is worthwhile in an up and coming designer’s arsenal.

Take a moment to remember an event that you experienced as a child. Pick something that’s important to you – an event that really shaped for the better the person you are today. Now ask yourself: are you sure this event truly happened? Suppose, for example, that some well-intentioned person could…

One of my favorite newish phrases is "It's a beautiful thing." I picked it up from a client, a globe-trotting tech executive who jets around movin' and shakin', doing things that invisibly affect the whole world (you're likely using something he had a hand in creating right now). The phrase, common…

Smartphone speech recognition software gets a bad rap. Most users find the nascent technology to be frustratingly slow, and there are entire blogs dedicated to documenting examples of its biggest – and sometimes hilarious – mistakes. But results from a new experiment suggest a different reality:…

Many of today’s most popular design trends are directly or indirectly influenced by minimalism, a web-design movement that borrows its philosophy from earlier movements.

We’re seeing the same unlocking of creative potential we saw with blogging, and there’s far more good work being produced than anyone has time to take in.

“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they’ve been fooled.” — Unknown.

On Monday the 2nd July 1979, Eiichi Kono walked into the offices of Banks and Miles, one of London’s most renowned graphic design agencies. It was his first day

If you can’t make a good font you can’t design cars, and other unexpected lessons from BMW.

I’ve noticed how seemingly small things like font and the spacing between letters can impact how I feel when reading online.

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