Jake Knapp, author of “Sprint” and “Make Time,” writes about leading a design sprint workshop at The New York Times
The real job of design is changing organizations and charting a path to the future.
When people start working out, much of their success or failure in reaching their goals are based on their diet. Even with a great plan…
Seeing how other designers create really helps when developing one’s own design process. No process is the same but all good ones include…
(!) This is a concept project, part of the User Experience Design Immersive course I attended at General Assembly London. This is a group…
It can be hard to pull together a decent set of personas on your users, but often all you need is a single statement about your them to…
The secret knowledge of how to use gradients in design.
Have you ever wondered what the perfect cart design for an online store is? Some designers agree that the best practice is to have no…
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As great as Google's Pixel phones are — the Pixel 2's have arguably the best smartphone cameras and the Google Assistant has grown to be indispensable — they lack one thing that made their predecessors, the Nexus phones, so irresistible: affordable pricing.
The Nexus brand and hardware are long dead, but the key fundamentals that made the phones such game-changers lives on in Android One.
Google launched Android One in 2014 as program geared towards pushing its apps and services onto budget phones designed for emerging markets such as India. Read more...
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For quite some time, fans of The Simpsons were unsure: Was that really Michael Jackson's voice on the show?
In the 1991 episode "Stark Raving Dad," Jackson voiced the character of Leon Kompowsky, a patient in a mental health facility who thought he was the pop icon.
Jackson was credited as John Jay Smith, and although producers have spoken about his appearance, the show's creator Matt Groening put the rumors to bed once and for all in an interview on Australian TV show The Weekly.
"We really did have him," Groening said.. Read more...
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Bring on the scooters.
After months of scooter-less streets in San Francisco, city transportation officials finally broke their silence Thursday to announce which electric scooter companies would be allowed to rent out the battery-powered vehicles.
Of the 12 companies that applied for a year-long pilot program in San Francisco, only two were selected: Skip and Scoot. The two companies are allotted 625 scooters each available to riders starting Oct. 15.
The final decision came as a bit of a surprise to some companies, seeing as the city originally said it could award up to five companies permits back in June. It comes off as a retaliatory move for Bird and Lime, scooter companies that came into the city early without collaborating with officials. Uber and Lyft were also vying for a spot in their hometown's scooter program, but may have paid the price for its past transgressions when ride-hailing apps arrived in the city unannounced years ago. Read more...
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Like Han Solo in the iconic cantina scene in Star Wars: A New Hope, we're sorry about the mess. And we're taking the shot first.
That's right, folks, the upcoming Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge park expansion to Disneyland is serving alcohol. We couldn't imagine recreating the sleazy intergalactic dive bar filled with smugglers and bounty hunters any other way.
Disney made the welcome announcement on the park's blog on Thursday, Aug. 30. The company also offered up some new concept art for the highly anticipated Black Spire Outpost expansion, which opens in 2019. Read more...
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Snapchat users were greeted with an alarming change to Snap Maps this morning: New York City had been renamed “Jewtropolis.”
Even worse, social media was filled reports of maps on other websites and services with the same change, including Zillow, The Weather Channel, Citibike, and Streeteasy.
Whatever mapping service that Snapchat, CitiBike, StreetEasy, (perhaps others) use — it seems — is showing New York City as "Jewtropolis" this morningpic.twitter.com/nsVe8goLyo
— Micah Grimes (@MicahGrimes) August 30, 2018
Couldn't find a way to report directly to @streeteasy or @zillow or @openstreetmap so here's a screen shot of a condo located in "Jewtropolis". Assuming they've been hacked. Might want to get on that and fix it#Antisemitic @ADL_National pic.twitter.com/Z36GdrzLo9
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You likely know K'naan Warsame for his FIFA World Cup anthem "Waving Flag" and his role on The Hamilton Mixtape track, "Immigrants (We Get The Job Done.)" Now, he's asking American citizens to vote on his behalf in the upcoming elections.
Though the Canadian-Somali singer and poet lives and works in New York, he's a Canadian citizen and his family still resides in Toronto, which means he's facing challenges as a result of the Trump administration's travel ban.
So he released a powerful video plea in partnership with The Love Vote, a nonprofit organization that aims to give the 50 million people like K'naan — who are unable to vote in the U.S. due to circumstances like age, citizenship status, or disenfranchisement — a space for their voices to be heard. Read more...
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The e-cigarette company Juul is believed to have used marketing strategies to target teens. Read more...
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Only a few hours after Apple sent out this year's iPhone event invitations, purportedly leaked images of the new devices have surfaced online.
This afternoon, Apple news site 9to5Mac posted a photo of what is allegedly one of the new flagship iPhone models laying on top of one another.
If the leaked photos are to be believed, Apple fans can rejoice, because it appears that a bigger iPhone X is on its way — oh, and there could be a gold color option coming as well.
The Cupertino, Calif.-based tech company just sent out invites for a September 12 event with the tagline "Gather Around." The invite didn't offer much information about what to expect, but an outline of Apple Park appeared in what was a gold-copper color — which could be perceived as a hint about the upcoming gold iPhone color option. Read more...
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Despite its California roots, In-N-Out is far from liberal.
On Wednesday, journalist Gabe Schneider uncovered a contribution of $25,000 that the famous California-based fast food chain made to the California Republican Party just this week — and it's safe to say that some folks were not happy to learn about the political leanings of their family owned go-to burger joint.
In-N-Out added a new item to their secret menuhttps://t.co/VtaCOuiNRp pic.twitter.com/tCRYqFGDEB
— Gabe Schneider 🗞 (@gabemschneider) August 29, 2018
Schneider shared a document on Twitter that details the company's contributions, which were filed on August 28. While many on Twitter stood in support of the burger chain because of their political beliefs, In-N-Out was called out by some customers. Read more...
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After nine seasons on Showtime's acclaimed Shameless, star Emmy Rossum is walking away.
In a Facebook post made earlier this afternoon, Rossum announced her exit, bid adieu to her South Side Chicago family, reflected on her upbringing, talked about Malcolm Gladwell, and even alluded to a possible return...
However, she did not give a reason for the departure.
Rossum signs off her note, saying, "I know you will continue on without me, for now. There is much more Gallagher story to be told. I will always be rooting for my family. Try not to think of me as gone, just think of me as moving down the block." Read more...
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