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UX Collective

Dinosaurs and designers are underrated

A myth from paleontology explains almost everything that hurts. Continue reading on UX Collective »

1 day ago

UX Collective

Dinosaurs and designers are underrated

Muzli

Weekly Designers Update 544

22 hours ago

Muzli

Weekly Designers Update 544

Muzli

Weekly Designers Update 544

1 day ago

Muzli

Weekly Designers Update 544

FastCompany Design

These designers made a sustainable new building material from corn

A new 3D-printed construction technique turns corn into a novel building material. Corncretl is a biocomposite made from corn waste known as nejayote that's rich in calcium. It's dried, pulverized, and mixed with minerals, and the resulting material is applied using a 3D printer. [Photo: Dinorah ...

23 hours ago

FastCompany Design

These designers made a sustainable new building material from corn

UX Collective

The problem with best practices in the age of AI

I showed my team an AI-generated design. Two senior designers called it &x2018;solid.' None of them questioned where it came from. Continue reading on UX Collective »

1 day ago

UX Collective

The problem with best practices in the age of AI

FastCompany Design

This new AI ‘eyedropper’ tool brings one of the most powerful UX tricks into the AI age

Variant, a generative design tool that promises endless UI exploration, recently introduced a feature most creative people and designers have used for decades: the eyedropper. In Variant, the tool picks vibes: It lets you click on one AI-generated interface and inject its aesthetic DNA—typography, ...

2 days ago

FastCompany Design

This new AI ‘eyedropper’ tool brings one of the most powerful UX tricks into the AI age

FastCompany Design

Lego’s new Monet-inspired set is full of hidden details

From afar, Lego’s new set inspired by Claude Monet’s painting Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies looks like a slightly more vivid version of the original. Step a bit closer, though, and you’ll find that its intricate brushstrokes are composed of Lego bananas, katana swords, and carrot tops. ...

18 hours ago

FastCompany Design

Lego’s new Monet-inspired set is full of hidden details

FastCompany Design

Unilever’s new headquarters in New Jersey puts its product development process on full display

For consumer packaged goods, the path from product idea to store shelves runs directly through the center of Unilever's new North American headquarters, and not just because the company makes market-saturating products like Hellmann's mayonnaise and TRESemmé shampoo. This new headquarters space was ...

2 days ago

FastCompany Design

Unilever’s new headquarters in New Jersey puts its product development process on full display

FastCompany Design

I vibe-coded a video game for under $25. Here’s how it went

Too many years ago, I remember slotting a 3.5-inch disk into my PC. With my allowance, I’d bought $5 video game design software from a catalog. And as I looked at the terminal, lost without some familiar GUI . . . my coding efforts died. Game design became an abstract concept even as I became ...

2 days ago

FastCompany Design

I vibe-coded a video game for under $25. Here’s how it went