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Oppo introduces new “slide” concept phone with three hinges
The product was designed in cooperation with the Japanese studio Nendo.
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Why great design is timeless
More than a decade ago, Apple introduced the iPhone 4, with its new boxy rectangular design. It was the first time we got to experience the Retina display.
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Meet the “menu engineers” helping restaurants retool in the pandemic
In a changing dining economy, restaurants are turning to a small group of experts who specialize in the science of menu design.
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The Evolving Designs of US Voting Ballots
This Is What Democracy Looked Like by Alicia Yin Cheng is the first book of its kind to look at the history of ballot design.
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iOS 14: How to Enhance Speech, Movies, and Music When Listening on AirPods and Beats
In iOS 14, Apple continues to build out its extensive accessibility features, and here we're going to show you how you can use the new Headphone Accommodations to amplify certain sounds if you're having difficulty hearing them.
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20 years ago, Steve Jobs built the “coolest computer ever”—and it bombed
This month marks the 20th anniversary of the Power Mac G4 Cube, which debuted July 19, 2000. It also marks the 19th anniversary of Apple’s announcement that it was putting the Cube on ice. That’s not my joke—it’s Apple’s, straight from the headline of its July 3, 2001, press release that officially pulled the plug.
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Apple 'adding periscope telephoto lens to iPhones' - reports
The move could see Apple compete with Huawei which last year released a phone capable of zooming in 50 times.
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'It took genius to chisel these buttocks' – the top 10 bottoms in art, chosen by our critic
They are ‘the founding curves of the Renaissance’. As Yorkshire Museum calls on collections worldwide to display their best behinds to boost attendance after coronavirus, we name our favourites.
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Why macOS Big Sur is flatter than ever
Forget skeuomorphism, or even the newly coined “neumorphism”. macOS Big Sur is flatter than ever. In the last few weeks there have been a lot of suggestions that this is the start of a new “fun” era of visual design, or that Apple is returning to skeuomorphism, or even a new thing called neumorphism.
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iOS 14 Apple Music features new animated playlist artwork
Apple Music gets a bunch of nice feature enhancements in iOS 14 including autoplay and a whole new iPad-optimized layout. However, it appears the app is adding something that has not been previously announced: animated artwork for Apple Music playlists.
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You can upgrade an Apple iPod Classic with an M.2 SSD fit for a PC
The Apple iPod Classic is a piece of technology that will go down in history as best in class. There's no PC/Mac rivalry here, these are just the facts, and I still use mine on long journeys to this day. But even MP3 royalty grows old, and the iPod's spinning platter HDD is certainly showing its age in an era of solid state. But what if you could swap it out for something a little faster?
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All the ways Siri is changing in iOS 14
Apple has made advancements to its Siri personal assistant in every version of iOS, but it’s still looks and acts nearly the same as it did back when it was introduced in iOS 5! Finally, with iOS 14, Siri is getting a much-needed redesign. Here’s what you can expect from Siri when you upgrade to iOS or iPadOS 14.
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Apple honors eight developers with annual Apple Design Awards
Apple today named eight app and game developers receiving an Apple Design Award, each one selected for being thoughtful and creative. Apple Design Award winners bring distinctive new ideas to life and demonstrate deep mastery of Apple technology. The apps spring up from developers large and small, in every part of the world, and provide users with new ways of working, creating, and playing.
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2020 iMac Schematic Showing Slimmer Bezels Found in Leaked iOS 14 Code; Detailed Render Provides Better Insight
The so-called ‘ageless’ design of the iMac needs a major revamp and it was extremely refreshing to hear from a tipster that Apple is preparing a 2020 iMac with a complete redesign at this year’s WWDC. According to this report, The 2020 iMac would get a look similar to the iPad Pro, and with much slimmer bezels compared to the current-generation iMac. Now if you were searching for an update, we have that for you as well; a leaked schematic of the new iMac was reportedly found in iOS 14, so let us check out those details.
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sfree: Scroll through the rich history of Apple wallpapers
Does life imitate art? Who knows. But when it comes to technology, it's safe to say it emulates both, as evident from the vast archive of Apple wallpapers.
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Ikea has released instructions for building your own home fort
The furniture brand’s newest set of manuals are designed to stave off lockdown boredom, by teaching us how to build fortresses, caves and wigwams out of furniture and household items
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Coronavirus May Finally Be the End of the Open-Plan Office
My Inc.com colleague Geoffrey James memorably called open-plan offices "the dumbest management fad of all time." And with good reason. Not only do many workers loathe the interruption-prone, privacy-free spaces, but science shows they don't even achieve their stated aim of fostering greater collaboration.
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Death of the office
As the pandemic leaves offices around the world empty, Catherine Nixey asks what was the point of them anyway?
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The Online Archive Is Now Open to All
With nearly 1,500 objects and 9,000 images, Letterform Archive now offers unprecedented virtual access to our unique trove of lettering, typography, and graphic design.
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The 8-bit arcade font, deconstructed
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