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Design
fromArchDaily
4 hours ago

Light Structures, Heavy Footprints? The Environmental Paradox of Lightweight Materials

Richard Serra's sculptures create a sense of lightness through the organization of mass, transforming weight into dynamic spatial experiences.
#product-design
UX design
fromMedium
14 hours ago

Product design in 2026: the beginning of a fantastic voyage?

Designers now have the opportunity to redefine their influence and role within companies, moving beyond traditional constraints.
Graphic design
fromMedium
3 weeks ago

For Craft Sake: On the laws and principles behind good design

Craft is experiencing a resurgence in product design, emphasizing fundamental skills amidst the rise of generative AI and industry confusion.
UX design
fromFast Company
2 weeks ago

Design has been solving the wrong problem

Design should prioritize real-life usability over aesthetic appeal to enhance long-term satisfaction with products.
UX design
fromMedium
14 hours ago

Product design in 2026: the beginning of a fantastic voyage?

Designers now have the opportunity to redefine their influence and role within companies, moving beyond traditional constraints.
Graphic design
fromMedium
3 weeks ago

For Craft Sake: On the laws and principles behind good design

Craft is experiencing a resurgence in product design, emphasizing fundamental skills amidst the rise of generative AI and industry confusion.
UX design
fromFast Company
2 weeks ago

Design has been solving the wrong problem

Design should prioritize real-life usability over aesthetic appeal to enhance long-term satisfaction with products.
Renovation
fromRemodelista
1 day ago

Eco-Friendly Terrazzo Made from Wood Waste for Counters, Floors, and More

Terrazzo, originally a 15th-century Venetian creation, has evolved with sustainable wood-based variants gaining popularity for their versatility and eco-friendliness.
Wellness
fromWIRED
6 months ago

The Best Hybrid Mattresses (and Why They Work for Almost Everyone)

Hybrid mattresses combine springs and foam for comfort, support, and breathability, tailored to individual needs.
Silicon Valley food
fromTasting Table
2 days ago

Have Your Favorite Foods Gotten Worse? Some Shoppers Are Suspicious Of Secret Tweaks From Major Brands - Tasting Table

Many classic foods have changed recipes, leading to altered tastes that consumers have noticed and discussed online.
Wearables
fromWIRED
2 days ago

Meta Glasses Are Comfortable, Functional, and Make My Spouse Recoil in Fear

Meta's AI-enabled glasses are popular and stylish, but concerns about privacy and social acceptance persist.
E-Commerce
fromApartment Therapy
3 days ago

I Finally Tested Every Article Bed I've Seen Online for Years - Here are the Best for Every Need

Choosing a bed frame is crucial, especially when buying online, and Article offers stylish options at reasonable prices.
Everyday cooking
fromTasting Table
6 days ago

Keep Those Plastic Table Covers Smooth And In Place With One Clever Trick - Tasting Table

Plastic tablecloths can be secured using water, ties, weights, painter's tape, or binder clips to prevent them from blowing away.
fromFast Company
1 day ago

Inside Ikea's dream factory: Its prototyping lab (exclusive)

"It would be really hard without this space to make good products, if not impossible," Axelsson says.
Design
Renovation
fromApartment Therapy
3 days ago

Designers Say You're Innocently Making These 6 Mistakes When Buying Outdoor Furniture

Proper outdoor furniture care and material selection are essential for longevity and aesthetic appeal.
#taste
UX design
fromMedium
3 weeks ago

Taste is not a feature

Taste is a disciplined capacity for contextual judgment, essential in evaluating creative work in an era of rapid production capabilities.
UX design
fromMedium
1 day ago

What we behold, the trust-latency gap, designing haptics

AI is rapidly transforming technology and design, creating both opportunities and challenges for designers.
fromChrbutler
1 week ago

Craft is Untouchable - Christopher Butler

Craft is often defined as skill in making things by hand, but this interpretation is being challenged by AI. Craft transcends physical interaction; historical figures like Mozart and Beethoven exemplify mastery without traditional methods.
Intellectual property law
#sustainability
Design
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
2 days ago

Everything in 2026 Is Disposable - Here's 5 Sustainable Trends Are Designed to Last Centuries - Yanko Design

Sustainability in 2026 emphasizes permanence, focusing on materials that last and promote ecological responsibility through architectural endurance.
Coffee
fromFast Company
3 weeks ago

Why sustainable products fail-and what actually gets people to use them

Sustainable products fail when they require more care; they succeed when they minimize friction and simplify user behavior.
Remodel
fromTasting Table
1 week ago

Laminate Vs Solid Surface: Which Affordable Countertops Are The Better Buy? - Tasting Table

Laminate and solid surface countertops are affordable options, each with distinct advantages and disadvantages for budget-conscious buyers.
Renovation
fromDesign Milk
1 week ago

Circularity Cements Memory in Cast Concrete

True ingenuity in architecture lies in negotiation with the past rather than erasure, as demonstrated by the Trace project in London.
UX design
fromMedium
2 days ago

The misrepresentation of "good taste" as a core design skill

Taste is positioned as a crucial differentiator for designers in an AI-driven landscape, but its meaning and implications are complex.
Alternative transportation
fromSustainable Bus
2 weeks ago

New certified Ultrafabrics collections target durability and compliance in passenger transport interiors - Sustainable Bus

Ultrafabrics launches new certified collections for passenger transport, combining durability, aesthetics, and sustainability in high-performance upholstery fabrics.
Design
fromArchDaily
5 days ago

What Textiles and Translucency Bring to Public Space: 5 Lightweight Interventions

Lightweight materials enhance public spaces through flexibility, visual permeability, and adaptability, fostering new relationships between the environment and human experience.
UX design
fromMedium
2 days ago

Are we makers by nature-or consumers by design?

The relationship between creation and consumption is strained, impacting designers' creativity and cognitive processes.
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
3 weeks ago

Soft Means Spoiled, and That's Actually Brilliant - Yanko Design

The handle, made of frosted silicone with a clean, pill-shaped profile, changes its physical firmness based on the freshness of the food stored inside the refrigerator. When everything's fine in there, the handle feels firm to the touch. When something is going bad, it softens.
Gadgets
Graphic design
fromItsnicethat
3 weeks ago

Oilinwater approaches branding like an investigator, to build visual systems from rigorous research

Oilinwater, founded by Matthieu Gorissen, is a creative studio in Brussels specializing in branding and graphic design, with a unique backstory and projects.
UX design
fromMedium
3 days ago

Haptics: how to build a consistent cross-platform solution and align code with Figma

Implementing consistent haptics across iOS, Android, and mobile web enhances user experience through tactile feedback.
fromBon Appetit
3 weeks ago

Kitchen Rugs Can Get Gross-These Stand Up to Heavy Use (and Stay Looking Good)

A good kitchen rug will follow a particular set of criteria. First and foremost it should be washable, because the kitchen is a dirty place. The second criteria is that it should be interesting, as an interesting texture, pattern, or color scheme can obscure the inevitable accumulation of wear.
Everyday cooking
UX design
fromMedium
5 days ago

AI, UX, and the factory model

The digital design landscape is shifting towards a factory model, redefining roles and metrics of success in software development.
fromMedium
1 month ago

You can't design what you won't maintain

Santa Cruz de Tenerife is one of the most idyllic cities in the Canary Islands. At its heart stands the jewel - the Auditorio. It's a place where talent from both worlds, New and Old, comes together. A theatre, opera, dance, and music heaven.
Berlin
Exercise
fromArchitectural Digest
1 month ago

The Longevity Home Products That (Actually) Work

Home wellness features like exercise equipment, plants, and recovery tools support long-term health through habit formation, muscle maintenance, air quality, stress reduction, and cardiovascular benefits.
#nail-polish
Wearables
fromTheregister
3 weeks ago

Chemists make special nail polish for use on touch screens

A researcher developed a nail polish that allows users to interact with touchscreens using their nails.
Wearables
fromTheregister
3 weeks ago

Chemists make special nail polish for use on touch screens

A researcher developed a nail polish that allows users to interact with touchscreens using their nails.
#interior-design
Design
fromDesign Milk
1 week ago

An Argument for Interior Design with Neuroaesthetics in Mind

Interior design should prioritize functional aesthetics to enhance mental health, creativity, and interpersonal connections through a new field called Neuroarchitecture.
fromArchDaily
2 months ago
Design

Rethinking Interior Surfaces, From Finishes to Frameworks

Surface materials function systemically, integrating color, texture, and technical performance to shape spatial quality, durability, and coherent design across applications.
Design
fromDesign Milk
1 week ago

An Argument for Interior Design with Neuroaesthetics in Mind

Interior design should prioritize functional aesthetics to enhance mental health, creativity, and interpersonal connections through a new field called Neuroarchitecture.
UX design
fromMedium
1 week ago

Most products don't need tone of voice - they need a point

Focus on practical content that aids user tasks rather than on tone or personality.
UX design
fromMedium
2 weeks ago

The UX ground is shaking, synthetic users, building perspective

A clear design perspective is crucial; it defines what to exclude, ensuring focus on what truly matters.
Design
fromArchDaily
3 weeks ago

Designing with Living Matter: 5 Installations Using Bio-Based Materials and Digital Fabrication

Architecture must integrate ecological considerations and material intelligence to transform design practices and reduce environmental impact.
UX design
fromMedium
3 weeks ago

Design engineers, UX Design's demise, forget your "lovable" products

Design Engineering merges visual design and front-end development, focusing on the intersection of design decisions and technical implementation.
US politics
fromMedium
1 month ago

Product ethics have never mattered more

Anthropic refused Pentagon contract terms requiring unrestricted AI use, maintaining ethical boundaries against mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, demonstrating how product values withstand government pressure.
Environment
fromFast Company
2 months ago

Tide spent 10 years turning laundry detergent into a tile. Please don't eat it

Tide developed Tide evo, a pre-dosed, fabric-like detergent tile that's a 100% concentrated, fiber-based formula that dissolves in water and reduces packaging emissions.
fromArs Technica
1 month ago

The physics of squeaking sneakers

Tuning frictional behavior on the fly has been a long-standing engineering dream. This new insight into how surface geometry governs slip pulses paves the way for tunable frictional metamaterials that can transition from low-friction to high-grip states on demand.
Science
Graphic design
fromMedium
1 month ago

Design is not just how it works. Design is how it wins.

AI commodifies work, shifting design's mandate from functional excellence to competitive winning as the primary objective.
Digital life
fromMedium
2 months ago

Going analog in 2026

A 2026 cultural shift embraces analog technologies, crafts, and slow, intentional experiences as a counterbalance to digital overload and AI-driven shortform content.
fromv buckenham
2 months ago

Some thoughts about tool design and AI

The normative form for interacting with what we think of as "AI" is something like this: there's a chat you type a question you wait for a few seconds you start seeing an answer. you start reading it you read or scan some more tens of seconds longer, while the rest of the response appears you maybe study the response in more detail you respond the loop continues
Artificial intelligence
Fashion & style
fromFast Company
2 months ago

These pretty textiles are made out of human hair

Human hair can be repurposed into durable biotextiles resembling coarse wool and combined with resins for improved structural stability.
E-Commerce
fromInverse
2 months ago

60 Bougie Things That Both Look Awesome & Are So Damn Useful

Affordable, artful home and fashion items combine luxury aesthetics with practical, everyday functionality.
Science
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

The Science That You Buy

Science-speak and biotech marketing have permeated beauty, fashion, and food, using technical claims that range from legitimate to transparently dubious.
Roam Research
fromNature
1 month ago

The squeal of peeling tape, explained

Micro-cracks in adhesive tape's adhesive layer generate weak shock waves that produce the screeching sound when tape is unspooled from its roll.
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
2 months ago

This MIT Prototype Translates Images Into Fragrances That Your Mind Remembers Better - Yanko Design

At a time when memories are increasingly flattened into folders, feeds, and cloud backups, a new experimental device from MIT Media Lab proposes a far more intimate archive: scent. Developed by Cyrus Clarke, the Anemoia Device is a speculative yet functional prototype that translates photographs into bespoke fragrances using generative AI, inviting users not to view memories, but to inhabit them through the body.
Gadgets
fromBustle
2 months ago

55 Bougie Things That Are Actually So Useful & Genius

When it comes to your wardrobe, it can be easy to define "bougie" as a piece of clothing that looks or feels expensive - and while the items on this list check those boxes, they're also so clever, you'll wonder how you ever did without them. Scroll on to shop for chic loungewear with extra functional features; trendy and practical fits for both day and night; and accessories that solve all sorts of fashion-related dilemmas.
Fashion & style
Gadgets
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

People who keep the same phone case until it falls apart display these 7 personality traits - and psychologists say the last one explains a lot - Silicon Canals

People who keep worn phone cases prioritize function over appearance, resist consumer pressures, and display traits like practicality, authenticity, and frugality.
UX design
fromMedium
1 month ago

Forget your "lovable" products; the real leverage point was always learning.

Learning reshapes the relationship between outputs and outcomes, serving as the true leverage point that design conversations overlook while chasing trending methodologies.
Graphic design
fromMedium
1 month ago

On craft and connivence

Relying on reused, trendy design assets can deliver quick results but leaves work vulnerable when clients demand original, high-stakes creativity.
Renovation
fromArchitectural Digest
1 month ago

Architects Say Touchscreens Ruined the Smart Home. Now They're Going Back to Buttons

High-end residential design increasingly favors analog controls and hidden technology over visible smart home interfaces, driven by user frustration, reliability concerns, and aesthetic preferences.
UX design
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
1 month ago

This Concept Shoe Looks Like a Sports Car Melted Onto Your Foot - Yanko Design

An Alfa Romeo-inspired concept shoe treats automotive design as structural principle rather than surface decoration, featuring a seamless white upper and sculptural red midsole with panel-gap detailing.
fromFlowingData
1 month ago

Illustrated engineering in everyday objects

I take the product apart. CAD it up. Illustrate each view. Then animate and lay it out for the web. That sounds quick, but it does take me quite a bit of time to create each one.
Graphic design
Design
fromDesign Milk
2 months ago

Take 5: A New Love for Color, Cool Ceramics, and Sexy Seating

Devin Wilde's ceramics and stone furnishings blend architectural form, glossy finishes, and typographic-inspired lighting to fuse art and architecture in contemporary interiors.
fromDefector
1 month ago

Make It Nice: Curtains, Linens, And How To Figure Out What You Like | Defector

My husband and I just upgraded our apartment here in Germany to one with much more space. The downsides of this is we have hard marble floors and a tall-ceilinged living room (oh woe is us!). It's very echo-y and looks directly into our neighbors across the street. The windows have external shutters, so light-blocking isn't needed, but we'd love to get
Design
UX design
fromCarlbarenbrug
2 months ago

Friction by Design

Intentional friction preserves user awareness and reflection, trading pure speed for more considered decisions and preventing autopilot interactions.
UX design
fromFast Company
2 months ago

Stop designing for categories, start designing for life in motion

Design for fluctuating ability states rather than fixed demographics to make products usable across contexts, increasing relevance, adoption, and satisfaction.
UX design
fromFast Company
1 month ago

5 design principles to feel fully alive

Meaningful life emerges through daily design practices and experiences rather than one-time discovery, with aliveness and human potential exceeding what any single lifetime can express.
#design-process
UX design
fromMedium
7 months ago

Who are we designing for now?

Design interfaces that serve both human emotions and AI agents by combining foresight, structured, machine-readable UX, and reconciled human-agent personas.
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