Niklaus Gerber - Issue #12
highly recommended
A Conversation About Fantasy User Interfaces
Brutalist architecture turns "ugly" into a design statement.
Inside The Organic UX Design Process At Slack
“Because we use Slack every day ourselves, new ideas keep coming every day—that’s a serious competitive advantage.”
Google DeepMind Researchers Develop AI Kill Switch
How To Design With Discipline: UX Lessons From 3M
The 3M Health Care Business Group follows a strict UX design process that allows for complexity—but isn’t overly complex.
Why perfection is boring
How We Lost 47% of Our Users After a Redesign
The Internet is full of success stories. To balance things out I’ll share the story of one of our colossal fails. Here’s how we redesigned one of our services and lost 47% of its users in the process.
astonishing apps
Magnus
Take a photo of an artwork and instantly know the artist, title and price. Get the app. It’s free!
Copper
Passwordless
signup for your product
inspirational
A Simple Button Could Fix One Of Mobile's Most Annoying UX Flaws
Button creates deep links between mobile apps so that tapping a button in one app performs that function in another.
Your style guide’s missing something — and it’s big
What’s incredibly important to any brand, and usually left out of style guides, brand books, and identity guides?
The Perfectly Imperfect Rhyming Logic Of Hamilton
A new visualization shows how Lin-Manuel Miranda’s prose was influenced by everyone from Lauren Hill to Gilbert & Sullivan.
Introducing DeepText: Facebook's text understanding engine
Text is a prevalent form of communication on Facebook. Understanding the various ways text is used on Facebook can help us improve people’s experiences with our products, whether we’re surfacing more of the content that people want to see or filtering out undesirable content like spam.
With this goal in mind, we built DeepText, a deep learning-based text understanding engine that can understand with near-human accuracy the textual content of several thousands posts per second, spanning more than 20 languages.
beautiful video content
1500 WORDS
When Stanley Franks is told he has 1500 words left to live, he faces a battle to keep both his marriage and himself alive using the fewest words possible.
made me smile
Sleepy Steve
A fuzzy bachelor has engineered his wacky morning routine with robotic precision.
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Vast & Aerial Landscapes in Iceland
Merlin Kafka est un photographe basé en Ecosse et en Allemagne. Passionné par les paysages saisissants, il voyage partout dans le monde pour immortaliser la b