Design

The Color Fidget: A Next-Level Harmony Guide The Gray Muse is proud to be the exclusive seller of a new interactive color wheel pin design, The Color Fidget. It’s not just a fidget toy, it’s a take-anywhere guide for exploring and selecting harmonic color combinations. The design, by color theory educator Peter Donahue

Continuing the series, “12 Map Happenings that Rocked Our World”, MapHappenings delves into the history of Google’s hugely impactful offerings. I think you’ll find it’…

Magnopus is a content-focused technology studio based in Los Angeles and London that creates award-winning work in VR / AR / Metaverse & virtual production.

Hypertype takes emotion and sentiment analysis data as it’s main content. This content is given form through the organisation of typographic signs, letters and symbols. The work (and the book) attempts to draw our attention to the topic of what has been labelled affective computing and the use of AI

In steampunk, cyberpunk, etc. the “-punk” implies that the genre highlights a fault in current society. Whether corporate greed, over-industrialization, or other issues, these genres te…

Introduction: Y2K futurism emerged at the turn of the millennium, capturing both the excitement and anxiety of entering the 21st century. This aesthetic blends digital optimism, cyberpunk influence…

The Cyberpunk aesthetic is one of the most iconic and visually enduring in popular culture. Characterized by vibrant neon lights, urban decay, and the powerful interplay between advanced technology…

Making interactive things requires discipline

The Human-Computer Interaction lab has a long, rich history of transforming the experience people have with new technologies.

How and why to use AI to analyze your book and movie preferences and discover new gems

It is just over a year since Apple launched its face computer, and seventeen years ago it launched its skinny computer. The trajectory of one tells a lot about the future of the other. But before w…

How to make it easier for music fans to find shows.

The Braun FS-80 tv. From the website FUTURE FORMS, “a collection of designer, space-age and minimalist electronics.” This is a terrible rabbit hole for me to go down.

Over twenty years of design history, now open to all.

This is a list of Firefox keyboard shortcuts for working with tabs, bookmarks, searching the web, playing media files and more.

In 2025, reevaluate tactics; use AI to deliver user value; and develop deep UX skills, instead of relying on toolkits.

With the new Alien film Prometheus coming up in the next few weeks, I watched the first film again recently to remind myself of the story and came across these forgotten gems, referred to on one of…

A love letter to the golden era of computing.

A possible software design pattern for bipolar programmers and nasty data with outliers

Apple is squandering their hardware advantage by sticking with 35 year old technology.

LEGO bricks might look simplistic, but did you know there’s an actual science behind their sizes? Enter LDUs — LEGO Draw Units — the minuscule measurement standard that allows those tin…

As the year comes to a close, you may be considering some last-minute charitable donations. You may not realize that a number of tools and organizations within the data visualization community are supported by donations and need your help. Here are four data visualization tools and organizations tha

Lorin Hochstein's ramblings about software, complex systems, and incidents.

Follow these 3 tips to reduce cognitive load and help your users: avoid visual clutter, build on existing mental models, and offload tasks.

The solution isn’t to just make the text bigger. We need to rethink how we approach product design as a whole.

An in-depth course on design tokens: concepts, Figma Variables, code, processes, best practices, and more.