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While Jony Ive Is Designing Ferraris, Another Apple Designer Is Thinking Different About the Golf Cart
More than half a decade after leaving Apple, two of the tech giant's former designers could be working on just about anything they want. Instead, they both seem to have luxury vehicles stuck on their minds. Could it be that Apple's shelved EV…
Designers imagine the impact of Brexit, 10 years on
The video begins with a faceless performer wearing a mask of former British prime minister David Cameron. Standing in front of a crinkled white sheet, the performer begins to slowly feed pages of a book into a paper shredder, letting the machine's…
Are designers to blame for our tech dystopia? It's complicated
As someone who has been working in user experience design for 30-odd years, I define design features as the conceptualization and implementation of a novel interaction—like infinite scroll or autoplay—for the benefit of a user. These…
Cadence Design Systems Inc. stock underperforms Thursday when compared to competitors
Shares of Cadence Design Systems Inc. CDNS slipped 1.12% to $368.23 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around mixed trading session for the stock market, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA rising 0.14% to 51,920.62 and the S&P 500 Index…
Job Opening: Designer, Marketing
Garden & Gun is seeking a Designer to join our Marketing team full-time. This role is ideal for a thoughtful, detail-driven creative who loves strong typography, clean layouts, and collaborative problem-solving. You'll work closely with Marketing…
An ex-Apple designer wants to reinvent the neighborhood vehicle
After leaving a job at Apple, where he led the design of the Apple Watch, Julian Hoenig wasn't planning to start an EV company. But a chance conversation with a friend revealed a gap in the market. His friend owned a resort and couldn't find a good…
IBM hails new 'block of flats' design breakthrough for tiny chips
IBM has unveiled a new chip design which it says could enable manufacturers to cram 100 billion transistors on a silicon chip the size of a fingernail. The current industry-standard size for chips, measured in a the unit of nanometres - a billionth…
Designers Reveal the Countertop Design That's Having a Major Moment
Marble countertops are timeless, but experts say there's a way to get a similar look that offers more durability. Designers say quartzite is trending among today's homeowners who want the elegance of marble without the stressful upkeep. Maintaining…
A Veteran Apple Designer Reimagines the Golf Cart
On the dunes of Tróia, a breezy peninsula just south of Lisbon, Julian Hoenig is taking his latest invention for a spin. The veteran Apple Inc. designer, who worked under Steve Jobs and Jony Ive and helped create the Apple Watch and Vision…
Ocean City Council votes to designate former Wonderland Pier site as area 'in need of rehabilitation'
A major procedural hurdle has been cleared for the future of the shuttered Wonderland Pier amusement park in Ocean City, New Jersey. On Thursday night, Ocean City council passed a resolution in a 5 to 2 vote to designate the former Gillian's…
Kuaishou chip spin-off taps funding for in-house designs amid export controls
Chinese internet giants are increasingly moving beyond software and into semiconductor design, betting that proprietary chips will give them greater control over computing infrastructure as artificial intelligence workloads surge and geopolitical…
The 10 Best Pieces of Designer Luggage That Are Actually Worth the Price
The concept of luxury luggage is far from novel. In the mid 1800s, a young Louis Vuitton founded his label designing highly personalized trunks and cases for fashionable socialites. The waterproof, ship-ready trunks allowed clothes to be laid…
Korea designates 15th-century ceramic flask, 4 rare Buddhist artworks as nat'l treasures
A rare 15th-century ceramic flask that was smuggled out of Korea during the 1910-45 Japanese colonial occupation has been officially designated a national treasure, underscoring a renewed push by cultural authorities to elevate and protect the…
European cities are using clever design solutions to fight extreme heat. Will they work?
Europe is facing a deadly, record-breaking heat wave, and to keep cool, cities and residents have taken to design interventions. Some are longer-running projects already underway, while others are quick DIY relief efforts for Europeans facing the…
Forget 2nm chips! IBM just beat TSMC to sub-nm chip design
IBM is showing of a sub-nm architecture, having created a 3D “nanostack” design at the 0.7nm node. The technology builds vertical towers of transistors, staggering their placement, to increase density. IBM believes that its design…
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