Though it’s just a research project for the moment

Apple has pushed Dark Mode hard in Mojave, and rumors suggest that it will appear in iOS 13 as well. If Apple thinks Dark Mode is such a good idea, should you switch to it? Only if you’re more interested in being trendy than productive, since the science behind human visual perception is resoundingly against Dark Mode.

The Fluid Inside head protection system is designed to not just protect an athletes skull, but the brain as well, by mimicking the fluids that protect us from repeated impacts and sudden, jarring hits. The system is more than the sum of its parts however, strategically placing the fluid pods to prevent the most common sport injuries.

The world is designed against the elderly, writes Don Norman, 83-year-old author of the industry bible Design of Everyday Things and a former Apple VP.

This proof of concept, which is a side project from a Netflix data engineer, needs to find its way into real stores.

It’s a civic resource, an index of inequality, and a requirement for public health. Shade should be a mandate for urban designers. By Sam Bloch.

Well, this is it, folks. As we learned yesterday, reliable phone rumormonger Onleak claims this horror is the iPhone 11. And I still can’t believe that Apple is actually going ahead and making it. Months ago, Hemmerstoffer said that the final iPhone 2019 design wasn’t set in stone yet. There were two target designs. One of them with a centered three-camera design — nicknamed the cyclops design — and the ugly patch design you can see here.

The Bauhaus was an art school that was radical in its uniting of art, craft, and technology in the years following the World War I...

What once seemed like the moonshot vision of tech billionaires and idealistic architects could soon become a concrete solution to several of the world’s most pressing challenges. At a United Nations roundtable on Wednesday, a group of builders, engineers, and architects debuted a concept for an affordable floating city. Unlike instances in the past when these futuristic designs have been met with scepticism, the executive director of the United Nations Human Settlement Programme...

Experts and influencers in user experience and user interface design—the people whose names you know—share the books that influenced their careers. @Enterprisenxt

Just $5.9 million will let you float above the water in self-sufficient, air-conditioned comfort. Miami-based Arkup LLC is showing off its new livable yacht at this weekend's Miami Yacht Show.

It took the power of the internet to crack it. By Juan Pablo Garnham.

Yes, the Honda Civic Type R is already one of the most extreme-looking cars on sale today. And yes, it can get even crazier, as proven by Mugen, a Honda-centric Japanese tuner that has taken the hot hatch to a new level visually (or a new low, depending on what you think of it).

One of the biggest shake-ups we’ve seen in the iOS user-interface was the replacement of skeuomorphism – making things look like real-life objects – with the complete opposite in iOS 7. Where once we had realistic looking 3D representations, we instead got a ‘flat’ UI which goes out of its way to remain 2D. While some feel that skeuomorphism looks old-fashioned these days, the approach still has its fans even now – and Apple has shown signs of beginning to adopt a new take on the look using something called anisotropism …

Katy Kelleher presages a boom in eau de Nil, the slippery color that snakes through Egypt.

Not standing out is by design.

"One letter of a Latin text on a page of sixteenth-century parchment captivated my attention for three hours. I consulted dictionaries to determine potential Latin words that might shed light on the myriad possibilities for this letterform. I used magnifying glasses to zoom in on the letter to find any hidden clues; shapes that might lead me in a better direction. It took fully three hours for me to realize that this letter was an uppercase Z."

Fashionable minimalism replaced plush opulence. That’s a recipe for commotion.

See the early looks for Han Solo, Chewbacca, Darth Vader and other “Star Wars” favorites, from the Oscar-winning John Mollo’s sketchbooks.

When Matthew Jones was a teenager, he would regularly purchase packs of blank VHS tapes at the Walgreens opposite his house, or sometimes at a local Blockbusters or nearby K-Mart. Like many of us who were around before the permanent sense of indecision catalyzed by on-demand, Jones grew up making of