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Designing from the margins

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Designing from the margins

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6 facts to know about the iconic Goodyear Blimp, which turns 100 this week

The iconic Goodyear airships are taking a victory lap over the skies of an Ohio city this week.The Akron-based tire company is celebrating the 100th anniversary of "Pilgrim," its first blimp to take flight just outside of the city on June 3, 1925.Goodyear began experimenting with vessels that would ...

15 hours ago

FastCompany Design

6 facts to know about the iconic Goodyear Blimp, which turns 100 this week

smashing magazine

Why Designers Get Stuck In The Details And How To Stop

Designers love to craft, but polishing pixels before the problem is solved is a time-sink. This article pinpoints the five traps that lure us into premature detail — being afraid to show rough work, fixing symptoms instead of causes, solving the wrong problem, drowning in unactionable feedback, and ...

16 hours ago

smashing magazine

Why Designers Get Stuck In The Details And How To Stop

FastCompany Design

2024 was Apple’s year for advertising—or was it?

The first iteration of Brand New World was a very specific look at how AI is changing how brands and marketers work. Now we’re back to talk about brand culture more broadly. Of course that will involve AI from time to time, but I’ll also be digging into sports, entertainment, music, comedy, and ...

18 hours ago

FastCompany Design

2024 was Apple’s year for advertising—or was it?

UX Collective

A practitioner’s journal on navigating UX in the age of AI

18 hours ago

UX Collective

A practitioner’s journal on navigating UX in the age of AI

UX Collective

The burden of sustainability

18 hours ago

UX Collective

The burden of sustainability

UX Collective

Curiosity isn’t just a personality trait. It’s a designer’s best strategic tool

How Benjamin Franklin can teach you how to repair rocky relationships Continue reading on UX Collective »

18 hours ago

UX Collective

Curiosity isn’t just a personality trait. It’s a designer’s best strategic tool

FastCompany Design

Inside Mattel’s plan to get adults to buy more toys

Barbie x Keiichi Tanaami. Hot Wheels x Daniel Arsham. Masters of the Universe x Virgil Abloh. Uno x Shantell Martin, Takashi Murakami, Gary Baseman, Kartell ... These collaborations might sound like an Andy Warhol pop fever dream, but they’re very real within Mattel Creations, the toy powerhouse’s ...

20 hours ago

FastCompany Design

Inside Mattel’s plan to get adults to buy more toys

FastCompany Design

Meet Soot, an explosive new media experience that’s killing the social feed

My daughter is 7 years old, and when she wakes up, the first thing she’ll often do is position herself in the center of an unruly pile of stuff on our basement floor. Construction paper. Tape. Stuffed animals. Pipe cleaners. Markers. Bits of ribbon. To me, it’s the definition of disarray. To her, ...

20 hours ago

FastCompany Design

Meet Soot, an explosive new media experience that’s killing the social feed

UX Collective

What professionals really think about “Vibe Coding”

1 day ago

UX Collective

What professionals really think about “Vibe Coding”

UX Collective

AI is coming for our design jobs, but it can’t touch taste

1 day ago

UX Collective

AI is coming for our design jobs, but it can’t touch taste

FastCompany Design

America’s sandwich generation is overwhelmed. Can this app help?

Care.com launched in 2007 as a platform primarily known to help parents find babysitters and nannies. But nearly two decades later, the company came across some disconcerting data: According to Pew, 64% of young women and 50% of young men don't want children, a figure that has been rising in recent ...

1 day ago

FastCompany Design

America’s sandwich generation is overwhelmed. Can this app help?

FastCompany Design

Pinterest wooed Gen Zers. Will AI pins drive them away?

Loving Pinterest has long been a part of my secretly middle-aged personality. I have 16.1k pins to my name to prove it. I started my account in middle school eight years ago, and Pinterest has been a dear companion to me ever since. I used to log on every day to tuck away precious ideas and artworks ...

1 day ago

FastCompany Design

Pinterest wooed Gen Zers. Will AI pins drive them away?

smashing magazine

Designing For Neurodiversity

Designing for neurodiversity means recognizing that people aren’t edge cases but individuals with varied ways of thinking and navigating the web. So, how can we create more inclusive experiences that work better for everyone?

1 day ago

smashing magazine

Designing For Neurodiversity