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FastCompany Design

Data centers are the buildings of our era. Do they have to be so boring?

If a single type of building could define our present time, it would undoubtedly be the data center. Underpinning the increasingly online way we work, shop, and entertain ourselves, data centers provide the computing power and storage to handle all the Zoom calls, Amazon purchases, and Netflix streams ...

2 hours ago

FastCompany Design

Data centers are the buildings of our era. Do they have to be so boring?

UX Collective

AI won’t save you, color contrast mistakes, the 3 layers of AI context

6 hours ago

UX Collective

AI won’t save you, color contrast mistakes, the 3 layers of AI context

UX Collective

Stop worrying so much about AI

Worry about how to work with people. Continue reading on UX Collective »

6 hours ago

UX Collective

Stop worrying so much about AI

UX Collective

A UX Carol

6 hours ago

UX Collective

A UX Carol

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UX Collective

Technology as a design material: Designing with sensors

Making invisible visible through design Continue reading on UX Collective »

1 day ago

UX Collective

Technology as a design material: Designing with sensors

UX Collective

Error messages — a guide for people who never write

Meet the P.A.I.N. way to write good errors. Continue reading on UX Collective »

1 day ago

UX Collective

Error messages — a guide for people who never write

FastCompany Design

Our built environment is exacerbating the loneliness crisis

I've said it before and I'm sure I'll say it again: Our built environment contributes to a mental health crisis. The built environment as we know it—buildings and the spaces between—does direct damage to our minds. Communities developed slowly for thousands of years, but in 20th century America, ...

1 day ago

FastCompany Design

Our built environment is exacerbating the loneliness crisis

IxDF

RockX Project Brief

Apply What You Learned From UX Magic and Project 1 In this second IxDF-provided project, you will be flying solo to create a new UX design from scratch. Unlike the first MatchDog exercise, where you could leverage project-specific grammar, prioritization, semantic grid, UX flow and game theory sample ...

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IxDF

RockX Project Brief

UX Collective

The “normal” AI bubble

The banal truth behind the brewing financial crisis in technology Continue reading on UX Collective »

2 days ago

UX Collective

The “normal” AI bubble

FastCompany Design

Sony owns majority stake in ‘Peanuts’ comic after $457 million buyout

Happiness is taking control of a beloved comic strip. Sony is buying a 41% stake in the Charles M. Schulz comic Peanuts and its characters including Snoopy and Charlie Brown from Canada's WildBrain in a $457 million deal, the two companies said Friday. The deal adds to Sony's existing 39% ...

2 days ago

FastCompany Design

Sony owns majority stake in ‘Peanuts’ comic after $457 million buyout

FastCompany Design

A brief history of the quesarito, Taco Bell’s visionary fast-food monstrosity

Before food influencers were deep-frying Chipotle burritos, putting an entire serving of mac and cheese on their Chick-fil-A sandwich, and making McDonald’s hash browns into ice cream sandwiches, there was another food-hack-slash-Frankenfood that ruled the internet: the quesarito. This week, Taco ...

2 days ago

FastCompany Design

A brief history of the quesarito, Taco Bell’s visionary fast-food monstrosity