4 Reasons Your UX Investment Isn’t Paying Off

We all know the business case for doing user experience (UX) work: Investing upfront in making products easy to use really pays off. It reduces project risk, cost, and time while improving, efficiency, effectiveness, and end user satisfaction. By Mashable

Follow Customers as They Actually Behave

Poor Elias St. Elmo Lewis. When he first described the sales funnel more than 100 years ago, he was trying to map the path a single customer took to a single purchase. Little did he know how badly we'd one day abuse his model. By Ad Age

Redesigning Google

How Larry Page engineered a beautiful revolution. The new Google way is weird, but it's working. Read the article by Wired

Interactive Mailbox Project Shares Text-Message Secrets

Hello Lamp Post! is a new public art project that will let you communicate with post boxes and lamp posts without anyone questioning your mental health. By Wired

Micro Apartments

New York's first prefab apartment tower will rise in 2015. Its 55 units will be very, very small. By Fast Company

Solving Problems The Square Way

Not long ago, Square CEO Jack Dorsey challenged his team to create a solution for accepting payments at Starbucks, which the mobile-payments company had partnered with in August. When an engineer worked out a solution (using QR codes within the Square Wallet app that could tap into Starbucks' preexisting system), Dorsey was so giddy that he grabbed a high-end bottle of scotch off his desk and gave it to the engineer as a reward. The only catch? By Fast Company

8 Insights About The Coming Era Of Interactive Design

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The New Design Thinking for Educators Toolkit

This toolkit supports teachers in using design thinking tools to become agents of change in their classrooms, schools, and communities by designing more effective curriculum, spaces, tools, and systems. By Tim Brown

Life Straw

A Time Magazine Invention of the Year winner, the LifeStraw removes a minimum of 99.9999% of waterborne bacteria and filters up to 1000L of contaminated water. By Time Magazine

Explore the Urban Jungle in Style

The Urban Pod has all the bells and whistles you’d expect from such a futuristic-looking design- radar for collision warning/parking, tire pressure sensors,...By Yanko Design

The foolproof lock

My bike got stolen! Been there, done that; so the focus has to be on how do we stop these bicycle thieves from getting creative at picking locks? Simple, let’s make it a foolproof locking system. By Yanko Design

AD App Guide: Morpholio Trace

ArchDaily’s Architecture App Guide will introduce you to web and mobile apps that can help you as an architect: productivity, inspiration, drafting, and more. By Arch Daily

What women want from smartphone design

Pink phones for Mother's Day, purple phones for spring, bedazzled phones to accessorize our bling. If you listen to most marketers, one would assume that smartphone shopping for women comes down to a preference for pretty pastels and shiny objects. But it cannot be that simple, right? By Wired UK

Netherlands highways will glow in the dark from mid-2013

A smart road design that features glow in the dark tarmac and illuminated weather indicators will be installed in the Netherlands from mid-2013. By Wired UK

Skip the subway, take a ski lift to work instead

The future of mass transit will come with sweeping views, private cars, and schedule-free travel if a proposed gondola-based system takes off from sketchpads at a design firm, which stands a shot at occurring in fast-growing Texas. By NBC News

Scaling Your UX Strategy

In business today, "user experience" (or UX) has come to represent all of the qualities of a product or service that make it relevant or meaningful to an end-user — everything from its look and feel to how it responds when users interact with it, to the way it fits into people's daily lives. By Harvard Business Review

Plair

A Dongle For Streaming Videos From Your Phone To TV. By Fast Company

Zaha Hadid Races To Finish A Building

A group of Chinese developers are copy-and-pasting a replica of a Zaha Hadid shopping complex that hasn't even been completed yet. By Fast Company

Bjarke Ingels, Architect

Bjarke Ingels, Architect
Bjarke Ingels is a Danish architect who heads the Bjarke Ingels Group. He is committed to ‘pragmatic utopian architecture’ and views his work as a way to give back to society and re-imagine the future. His designs can be seen around the world from Asia to the Manhattan skyline.

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