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FastCompany Design

How Delta turned TSA chaos into a brand advantage

As brand obsessions go, our collective love/hate relationship with airlines may be one of the most passionate and unique. It's a perfect storm of time pressure, cost, emotional stakes, and a complete lack of control as a customer. An airline’s product is the experience, and that experience has ...

3 hours ago

FastCompany Design

How Delta turned TSA chaos into a brand advantage

FastCompany Design

How GM is shaping the future of car design, one Corvette at a time

I’m standing in a showroom at the new General Motors design headquarters outside of Detroit resisting the urge to reach out and touch something. In front of me, there’s a Corvette CX, a one-of-one experimental sports car that the automaker has meticulously handcrafted to look both silky smooth and ...

3 hours ago

FastCompany Design

How GM is shaping the future of car design, one Corvette at a time

FastCompany Design

Scientists have designed a way to save our brains from fake AI videos

Visual truth is going down in flames, thanks to new generative AI models that produce synthetic media that looks indistinguishable from reality. But a team of university researchers has figured out a hardware fix that just might save us. Engineers at ETH Zurich have designed a working prototype of a ...

3 hours ago

FastCompany Design

Scientists have designed a way to save our brains from fake AI videos

FastCompany Design

Why Meta is building its high-tech South Carolina data center with an old-school material

In a greenfield industrial park in rural Aiken County, South Carolina, Meta is building a new $800 million data center that's much like any of the other hyperscale data centers giant tech companies are scrambling to construct. Set on 300 acres with two massive data halls making up most of its 715,000 ...

3 hours ago

FastCompany Design

Why Meta is building its high-tech South Carolina data center with an old-school material

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Muzli

Creative Lull: Getting unstuck

The blank canvas, every creative person's kryptonite. Overcoming that initial hurdle sometimes can seem like a big insurmountable task... Continue reading on Muzli - Design Inspiration »

23 hours ago

Muzli

Creative Lull: Getting unstuck

FastCompany Design

I met my AI twin—and now I’m in an existential crisis

Before I ever met Sam Kececi, I had already interviewed him on his career, his use of AI, and his thoughts on data privacy. In this case, “him” might be a loose word, depending on your definition—I had spoken not with Kececi himself, but with an AI chatbot that he designed to recall his memories, ...

1 day ago

FastCompany Design

I met my AI twin—and now I’m in an existential crisis

FastCompany Design

Kizik’s next big step is a slip-on running shoe

When it was founded in 2017, the shoe brand Kizik was on a mission to bring hands-free shoe technology into the mainstream. It’s now taking two big steps to further that goal.Kizik's parent company HandsFree Labs is announcing a licensing deal with New Balance that will leverage its hands-free technology. ...

1 day ago

FastCompany Design

Kizik’s next big step is a slip-on running shoe

smashing magazine

The Site-Search Paradox: Why The Big Box Always Wins

Success in modern UX isn’t about having the most content. It’s about having the most findable content. Yet even with more data and better tools than ever, internal search often fails, leaving users to rely on global search engines to find a single page on a local site. Why does the “Big Box” ...

1 day ago

smashing magazine

The Site-Search Paradox: Why The Big Box Always Wins

UX Collective

The mirage of UX Design’s demise keeps coming back

Why do we declare endings when we don't understand transitions? Continue reading on UX Collective »

1 day ago

UX Collective

The mirage of UX Design’s demise keeps coming back

Muzli

Weekly Designers Update 549

1 day ago

Muzli

Weekly Designers Update 549

UX Collective

What AI exposes about design

1 day ago

UX Collective

What AI exposes about design

Muzli

The Difference Between a Logo and a Brand: Why Customers Don’t Trust You Yet

1 day ago

Muzli

The Difference Between a Logo and a Brand: Why Customers Don’t Trust You Yet

Muzli

Weekly Designers Update 549

1 day ago

Muzli

Weekly Designers Update 549

Muzli

The art of observing and how great product design starts beyond the screen

1 day ago

Muzli

The art of observing and how great product design starts beyond the screen

UX Collective

The three thirds

2 days ago

UX Collective

The three thirds

Muzli

Tipping: Two apps, two philosophies

2 days ago

Muzli

Tipping: Two apps, two philosophies

UX Collective

Design debt is now as dangerous as technical debt

2 days ago

UX Collective

Design debt is now as dangerous as technical debt

UX Collective

Making vs. the machine

2 days ago

UX Collective

Making vs. the machine

UX Collective

The design engineer symptom: what a rising job title reveals

2 days ago

UX Collective

The design engineer symptom: what a rising job title reveals