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Interaction Design

04.18.13: Alexandra Lange

Architecture Without Signs
If you can't find the entrance, there's a problem with the architecture.
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04.17.13: John Thackara

Big, Hairy, and Agile
The UK government’s digital services platform, gov.uk, has won the Design of the Year award.
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03.08.13: Rob Walker

The Panic Option
A rental car's key fob design emphasizes "Panic" over all other options. Is that really a good idea?
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02.28.13: Rob Walker

Overshareability
Evernote's introvert focus raises a question: Has digital design become overly obsessed with extroverted behavior?
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12.13.12: Rob Walker

Tracking War Drones
Online projects that seek to make the drone war comprehensible.
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09.25.12: Rob Walker

Crowdcrit vs. Apple Maps
An instant Tumblr responds to Apple's maps app, and demonstrates the art of the creative takedown.
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09.10.12: Jessica Helfand

Bill Moggridge 1943-2012
Jessica Helfand remebers Bill Moggridge.
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07.09.12: Rob Walker

Interface Runes
Revisiting the Palm Pilot's uncanny interaction-design alphabet.
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03.09.12: Nancy Levinson

Design Indaba 2012
Design Indaba 2012 gathered creative people from graphic and product design, architecture and landscape, film and video, not to mention Danish gastronomy and Bollywood movies.
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02.13.12: Alexandra Lange

Round Thermostats and Crystal Lanterns, Revisited
Old designs, new tricks: updates on lawsuits filed against the new Nest thermometer, and on behalf of midcentury masterpiece Manufacturers Hanover.
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10.10.11: Rob Walker

An Interview with Kevin Slavin
A conversation between Rob Walker and co-founder of the game development company Area/Code, Kevin Slavin.
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03.22.11: Josh Wallaert

Google Maps, Give Us Our River Names
No map in history has made us feel more powerful or more present. But there's a little thing missing: the Mississippi River.

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