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Below is a cleaned up transcript of a talk I recently gave at work to an audience of mostly developers. I used Claude (Opus) to clean up the transcript and have edited out some sections due to discussions of our internal systems. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the very succinctly titled,

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You could be forgiven for thinking these cast aluminum pieces are trivets, but in fact they're rope connectors. The friction of the ropes hold them in place. These doodads are a knot-free way to make a climbing net, like you'd see at a playground (or

By coding early, we can validate ideas, identify technical constraints and refine our design based on practical insights and keep the project's goals in focus.

Unique challenges that DST presents for clock/watch designers

Peter Frederiksen pinpoints the most ridiculous, exaggerated moments in cartoons and animated shows to dramatize them further into absurdity.

UI libraries come with challenges, which greatly limit their effectiveness. Let’s explore how a new entity, the Bit component, addresses them.

The latest company information, including net asset values, performance, holding & sectors weighting, changes in voting rights, and directors and dealings.

You've perhaps seen Dyson's Solarcycle lamp, which is adjustable in a Cartesian fashion to provide light exactly where you want it. It was probably inspired by this early-20th-century design for an industrial task lamp, produced by the Faries Manufacturing Co. of Decatur, Illinois. It's pure form-follows-function. Both

Explore the timeless wisdom of Hannibal Barca's Rome-invading strategies and how they relate to conquering modern product development methodologies.

In the 13th century, Cistercian monks worked out a system of numerals in which a single glyph can represent any integer from 1 to 9,999: Once you’ve mastered the digits in the top row, you can represent tens by flipping them (second row), hundreds by inverting them (third row), and thousands by doing both (fourth row). And now you can combine these symbols to produce any number under 10,000: The monks eventually dropped the system in favor of Arabic numerals, which reached northwestern Europe at about the same time, but it was being used informally elsewhere as recently as the...

You’ve all seen them, tiny switches that let you toggle a setting. And maybe, just like me, you sometimes pause, thinking “...Is it on or…

To help you build trust and design a user-friendly experience that helps meet our policy requirements, consider these best practices.

Technologies blurring the boundaries between natural and artificial are increasingly within our grasp

Enterprise UX often involves navigating cumbersome processes, ancient technology, and clients skeptical of design’s value. Yet Fortune 500 companies are often the ones most in need of well-designed…

Adam Silver – interaction designer - London, UK

Adam Silver – interaction designer - London, UK

Adam Silver – interaction designer - London, UK

Bret Victor has been provided by the management for your protection.

A gem of an educational show from Japan about design.

Usability heuristics suggest what influences the design of successful board games.

Rebecca Solnit with a cheeky & hilarious piece on How to Comment on Social Media. 1) Do not read the whole original post or what