Design

In software discussions, there’s a relatively healthy trope of saying something like, “sure this would be fine for power users, but what about normal people?” That’s a good question to ask, but what comes next always bugs me. The “normal person” will always be their mom. 100% of

Most power tool manufacturers you've heard of, and some you haven't, offer some form of vacuum-connected dust collector for drilling. The lamprey-like devices use the vacuum's suction to stick to a wall or ceiling, while a hole in the middle admits the bit. Milwaukee has two

When installing raceways or conduit brackets, each installation screw requires two holes on opposite channel walls. One hole is sized to fit the shaft of the fastener, while the opposite hole must be larger than the fastener's head. This is so the installer has enough room to drive the screw.

Processing is a flexible software sketchbook and a language for learning how to code within the context of the visual arts. Since 2001, Processing has promoted software literacy within the visual arts and visual literacy within technology.

In the shadow of Milan Design Week, an unusual armchair is launching on Kickstarter, revealing all that’s wrong with Big Furniture today.

Jack Wang brings to life a multifunctional computer, fusing retro aesthetics with modern technology, drawing inspiration from Marvel's 'Loki'.

Which do you prefer - a touch screen or physical buttons?

Inside the far-from-ordinary Mayfair workshop that crafts a sense of the surreal through Jessica McCormack’s diamond jewelry

The UX profession has an aura of empathy and care for the people who use tech products. Businesses capitalise on this aura without having to entertain it.

The Wizard of Oz is a user-research method where a user interacts with a mock interface controlled, to some degree, by a person.

Looking to tailor your product to individual users’ needs? In this article, Colin Eagan and Jeffrey MacIntyre walk you through their approach to aligning different stakeholders toward the common go…

gr1dflow is a collection of artworks created through code, delving into the world of computational space. While the flowing cells and clusters showcase the real-time and dynamic nature of the medium, the colours and the initial configuration of the complex shapes are derived from blockchain specific metadata associated with the collection.

Below is a cleaned up transcript of a talk I recently gave at work to an audience of mostly developers. I used Claude (Opus) to clean up the transcript and have edited out some sections due to discussions of our internal systems. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the very succinctly titled,

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You could be forgiven for thinking these cast aluminum pieces are trivets, but in fact they're rope connectors. The friction of the ropes hold them in place. These doodads are a knot-free way to make a climbing net, like you'd see at a playground (or

By coding early, we can validate ideas, identify technical constraints and refine our design based on practical insights and keep the project's goals in focus.

Unique challenges that DST presents for clock/watch designers

Peter Frederiksen pinpoints the most ridiculous, exaggerated moments in cartoons and animated shows to dramatize them further into absurdity.

UI libraries come with challenges, which greatly limit their effectiveness. Let’s explore how a new entity, the Bit component, addresses them.

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You've perhaps seen Dyson's Solarcycle lamp, which is adjustable in a Cartesian fashion to provide light exactly where you want it. It was probably inspired by this early-20th-century design for an industrial task lamp, produced by the Faries Manufacturing Co. of Decatur, Illinois. It's pure form-follows-function. Both

Explore the timeless wisdom of Hannibal Barca's Rome-invading strategies and how they relate to conquering modern product development methodologies.

In the 13th century, Cistercian monks worked out a system of numerals in which a single glyph can represent any integer from 1 to 9,999: Once you’ve mastered the digits in the top row, you can represent tens by flipping them (second row), hundreds by inverting them (third row), and thousands by doing both (fourth row). And now you can combine these symbols to produce any number under 10,000: The monks eventually dropped the system in favor of Arabic numerals, which reached northwestern Europe at about the same time, but it was being used informally elsewhere as recently as the...