What makes a color "masculine"? Our guide explores the history, meaning, and versatility of 13 classic colors, from navy blue to salmon pink.

In the 1960s, Toyota's designers tackled a challenge that they hadn't yet: Design a vehicle with a lot of interior space, enough to carry up to eight passengers. Japanese law strictly regulated the length of vehicles, which presented the designers with a problem. They concluded that having the engine in

The Community Geography Lab in Ohio organized a mapping project for Kent residents to map historical Census data: This map was created working closely with South End residents, including three mapp…

Remember Bourbon and Bitters? Meet their modern successor: Roux. Elaina Natario talks about her new CSS boilerplate that rethinks how teams structure and scale their styles without needing to reach for frameworks like Tailwind.

The switches and buttons of Alien: Earth might be retrofuturism, but the present shift from touchscreens back to buttons in vehicles shows their staying power.

Furniture designers are in a challenging era. Increasing customization demands, the rise of complex organic forms, and non-stop pressure to streamline production are pushing traditional workflows to their limits. To adapt to today's pace, designers are searching for digital solutions that will support both their creativity and their business.

Explore the impact of amiability in web interactions and learn from the history of Vienna Circle's collaborative spirit in dealing with disagreements.

Discover how design systems can evolve into living languages, embracing dialects for flexibility and improved user experiences.

Succumbing to AI temptations weakens your UX skills. Strive for the AI virtues to keep yourself strong as you use AI in your work.

Original thesis (HTML), mindmap, mindmap outline, and summary.

Adam Silver – interaction designer - London, UK

Accessibility does not limit creativity! Explore six distinct WCAG-compliant yellow and purple palettes and learn how to design your own.

This slick little piece of steel is a magnetic-mount tape holder. It can hold smaller-diameter tapes (like electrical) on the inner fins, and larger-diameter (duct, packing, blue) tapes on the outer fins. The gap in the fins allows it to

The rugged Ulefone 33 Pro bucks the thin smartphone trend

In the wake of my recent (and inaugural) visit to Disneyland, I read Richard Snow’s history of the park, Disney’s Land. Early in the book, ... Read more

It’s often said that what’s inside matters more than one’s looks, but it’s hard to argue that a product’s looks and its physical user experience are what makes it inst…

A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.

User scenarios can bridge communication gaps, create a shared sense of ownership and boost your empathy. Now you can design them in Justinmind. Here is how.

In the world of product design and development, three terms often come up that can sometimes be confusing for us: user stories, user scenarios, and use cases. Understanding the differences between them is crucial to know in which moment we shoud use one or another. So, let´s go for

User scenarios describe how personas interact with designs, aiding teams in visualizing user needs and fostering empathy. Learn how user scenarios refine UX.

Users still recognize the floppy disk icon as ‘save,’ but evolving workflows mean it may no longer be the clearest or most appropriate choice in many cases.

With devices lasting longer, I now have the unique opportunity to hold on to older designs I love the most.

So, confession time: I was recently helping a new client get set up on the Fediverse—guiding them through their first steps into our glorious decentralized galaxy. And seeing it all again through fresh eyes? Reader, it was brutal. So much of what should be table stakes for any social media UX in the year of our Lord 2025 still is missing or deeply broken still. I know progress has been made and a good fight, fought.

Starting June 20th, any cordless phone, smartphone, or feature phone, as well as tablets (7 – 17.4″ screens) have to meet Ecodesign requirements. In addition there is now mandatory regi…

Hel is a distorted Swiss variable font with three axes

Illustrations by Tijmen Ploeger