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Body positivity and its discontents.

What happens when your body doesn’t qualify for body positivity?

Your Fat Friend

Sep 10

The iPhone X: Apple’s Ideology of American Techno-Exceptionalism

With the iPhone 8 and X, Apple has clearly lost its lead in technology. But its most important product is ideology.

Sep 12

Optical Effects in User Interfaces (for True Nerds)

How to make optically balanced icons, correct shapes alignment, and perfect corner rounding. Over 50 pics included.

Slava Shestopalov

Sep 13

Apple Has Lost Its Charm

I have been following Apple for a long time: I went to MacWorld for the first time when I was 10; I first stood in line for a product…

Sep 12

How Do You Like Them Apples?

On Apple leaks on ‘iPhone X’ Eve

Sep 11

What does the iPhone X’s AR engine mean for UX Designers?

Read on for our take on the $162bn question: are people going to use it?

Sep 12

Why you shouldn’t unlock your phone with your face

Today Apple announced its new FaceID technology. It’s a new way to unlock your phone through facial recognition. All you have to do is look…

Sep 12

Why Shanghai might be the next Silicon Valley-and why you should care

Behind China’s Great Firewall is a nation 1.38 billion strong ushering a new era of innovation. If you aren’t aware of the technological…

Sep 9

UI Interactions of the week #91

via Muzli design inspiration

Sep 12

Autonomous Cars: The Level 5 Fallacy

by Jean-Louis Gassée

Jean-Louis Gassée

Sep 10

What every software engineer should know about search

Want to build or improve a search experience? Start here.

Sep 11

The non-techie’s guide to servers

Everything you need to know in 7 minutes.

Kannan Chandrasegaran

Sep 7

We Are Already Living in the Future

Why Everyone Must Understand the Digital Age Now

Erik P.M. Vermeulen

Sep 10

The engineer’s guide to not making your app look awful

A problem that a lot of independent app developers face is that they aren’t graphic designers. I work with an innovation team where I have…

Andy O'Sullivan

Sep 11

What the ‘Aikido’ philosophy teaches us about creativity and courage

An illustrated introduction

Sep 11

How to Recruit Investors for Your Startup

Successfully convincing investors to fund your startup is not easy.

Josiah Humphrey

Sep 10

A Unified Theory for Designing Just About Anything

A few years back I was obsessed with the question of why some companies rocked at one thing, and sucked at another. How could Amazon be so…

Christina Wodtke

Sep 9

Why the next iPhone may be the last

Do you remember the launch of MacOS X?

Sep 3

How we built the first real self-driving car (really)

Electric self-driving cars will save millions of lives and significantly accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy, but only…

Sep 11

Five Things I Learned from Master Investor, Chris Dixon

Some people leave a deep impact on everyone they meet. Philosopher, programmer and investor Chris Dixon was one of those folks for me. The…

Daniel Jeffries

Sep 10

12 cool things you can do with GitHub

I can’t for the life of me think of an intro, so…

David Gilbertson

Sep 9