Boston Gets A Boa

Can the Dubai real-estate slump be blamed on ambitious projects that tried to recreate mini magical kingdoms? Don’t know, however that’s not stopped the designers from their creative thinking so let’s overview a challenging project that’s aimed for Boston residents. By Radhika Seth

Songdo Vision

See this video displaying images of future cities, or City 2.0.

A Master Plan Inspired By The World

With a commitment to sustainable design principles and the best practices of urban planning, Gale International and its partners have realized their vision for a new international city.

Cisco's Big Bet on New Songdo: Creating Cities From Scratch

The world is bracing for an influx of billions of new urbanites in the coming decades, and tech companies are rushing to build new green cities to house them. Are these companies creating a smarter metropolis -- or just making money? By Greg Lindsay

Amazing Computer Concept Designs You Wish Were Real

Concept designs are great and frustrating at the same time.

Why We Should Teach Design Early

A group of Austin designers is helping students at a local high school recreate their campus. By Rob Stokes

A Guide to Mobile Web Design Tips and Tricks

Having a mobile-optimized web site can really make your site stand apart from the pack. Even though smartphones like the iPhone and Google Android devices can display “the full web,” having a web page formatted for smaller screens and with features that can take advantage of a touch screen, geolocation, or address book functionality can make the mobile web browsing experience that much better. By Christina Warren

Apple's Proposed Multi-touch User Interface System

Looking at Apple's recent hardware and software patents in aggregate reveals a coordinated proposal for a multi-touch user interface. By Luke Wroblewski

The Cloud

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Fantastic Information Architecture and Data Visualization Resources

Information architecture can be a daunting subject for designers who’ve never tried it before. Also, creating successful infographics and visualizations takes skill and practice, along with some advance planning. By Cameron Chapman

Compenion concept shows possible 2015 laptop evolution

Some concepts for laptops in 2015. By Chris Davies

Worlds lightest cash register

The EPOS-lite. The EPOS-lite is a concept for the worlds lightest cash register. Its design is inspired by the Apple MacBook Air and iPhone.

Digit MP3 concept

No wires, just you, your DIGIT and your wireless.

Project Bee Helps, Doesn’t Sting

Project Bee is a talking, interactive GPS enabled navigation assistant intended for the visually impaired but there’s no reason why sighted people couldn’t benefit from it either. By Yanko Design

Tim Brown of IDEO & Designthinking: Extended Version

Sports Illustrated - Tablet Demo 1.5

Just How Innovative Is 3D Entertainment Technology?

There has been a sudden explosion of interest surrounding 3D entertainment technology -- driven in no small part by the phenomenal success of James Cameron's Avatar. By Dominic Basulto

The creative space

At Lehrer Architects, time spent pursuing art and design for personal development is an essential aspect of office life. By Edward Keegan

Disney’s Organization Chart Respects the Creative Process

@Issue Journal has shared a wonderful graphic visualization of Disney’s internal organization chart.

11 Design Strategies of the Next Decade