Google Home and Amazon Echo Yay, we killed Skeuomorphism! Not too long ago humanity left behind its skeuomorphic interfaces. We became accustomed to the idea of buttons to tap on screens and swipes that moved content right or left. We learned that content could be out of view but within reach. We…

When I accepted my first full-time UX Designer position — while still completing my UX Design Bootcamp — I was flooded with emails and phone calls asking the same questions: How long has it been since your career switch? What types of questions were asked during your interview? What do you think was…

In short, yes. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a regular emoji user—but there’s a time and a place for posting them. Two weeks ago, Slack added a feature where you can set a status that would display an emoji next to your name as well as your carefully crafted 100 characters message hidden away in a…

The Doritos' Guardians of the Galaxy 2 chips sold with a MP3 player containing the movie's full soundtrack, a pair of retro headphones of the sort that airlines used to hand out for free, even in coach, and a USB charging cable. They're pretty cool -- the buttons silkscreened on the back actually…

(Jaya Nicely) “You’re looking well, though,” someone tells Ewan McGregor early on in T2 Trainspotting , a 20-years-later sequel to the 1996 cult classic that launched his career. “Aye,” he replies. “Everybody says that.” He looks fantastic, it’s true, as handsome and wiry and alluringly volatile as…

Expecting the oppressed to change the minds of their oppressors over a beer is preposterous and dangerous. I was recently about to deliver a talk on findings from my book on diversity and inclusion in the workplace, to a crowded room. Five minutes before I was due to take the stage, a middle-aged…

(Getty Images/Ringer illustration) As Facebook employees welcomed guests to F8, the company’s annual developers conference, on Tuesday, police scoured at least five states for a man who had used Facebook Live to pledge his intentions to kill someone. Shortly after sharing his plan, he had uploaded…

(Warner Bros/Touchstone/Walt Disney Pictures/Universal Pictures/Ringer illustration) "We’re gonna need a crew for this." Nothing in a movie amps me up more than when a character says that line, or something like it. That’s because it means we’re about to get a "Getting the Gang Together" montage,…

Smuggle in food, smuggle out video An amateur video smuggled from North Korea to China on June 10, 1997 shows a mother and child in a detention camp set up for the victims of starvation. (AP Photo/APTV) J apanese journalist Ishimaru Jiro paid his last official visit to North Korea in 1998. By then,…

by 5/3/2017 Police in Chechnya are reportedly telling parents to kill their gay children , or else they’ll murder them themselves. As news of anti-gay purges in the region spreads, including concentration camps for alleged homosexuals , reports from escapees paint a harrowing picture. One victim,…

Chechen police are reportedly urging parents to kill their gay children, according to survivor testimony from one man held in a “gay torture camp” in the region. Authorities have been telling parents of gay men to “sort it out” or the state will intervene, the victim, who has not been identified,…

Donald Trump. Photo: MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images An amendment in the GOP health-care-reform bill will allow states to deny coverage for preexisting conditions, including sexual assault. Pre-Obamacare rape survivors who sought treatment for their injuries could be denied health care later on. Under…

The News Building in London houses offices of The Sun and other publications in Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. Credit José Sarmento Matos for The New York Times By LONDON — Tony Gallagher, editor of The Sun , one of Britain’s most raucous and influential tabloids, looks down on the government,…

Lena Dunham, Jenni Konner, and America Ferrera talk directing and womanhood in the TV space. Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner have done a lot in the past year. They finished the sixth and final season of Girls , a season that has been universally lauded as the program's best. (It included a finale…

I was four subway stops away from my apartment in Brooklyn on a recent Friday evening when my train came to a screeching halt. A voice crackled over the speaker: There were signal problems ahead. We started moving. Then we stopped. Over and over again. When we pulled into a station, one woman…

After the British writer G. K. Chesterton visited the United States for the first time, he remarked that America was “a nation with the soul of a church.” Mr. Chesterton wasn’t referring to the nation’s religiosity but to its formation around a set of core political beliefs enshrined in founding…

Guidance The UK government's design principles and examples of how they've been used. Published 3 April 2012 From: Government Digital Service Contents 1. Start with user needs 2. Do less 3. Design with data 4. Do the hard work to make it simple 5. Iterate. Then iterate again 6. This is for everyone…

Once upon a time, Apple was known for designing easy-to-use, easy-to-understand products. It was a champion of the graphical user interface, where it is always possible to discover what actions are possible, clearly see how to select that action, receive unambiguous feedback as to the results of…

If there is one problem the U.S. military has studied and thought about, it is war on the Korean peninsula. The U.S. Army’s heart may still reside in Germany’s Fulda Gap, but the Army has been in Korea for almost as long as it has been in Germany. And the other services, especially the Navy, had…

L et’s be frank: I’ve done it. I’d wager you’ve done it, too. Design inspiration sites are chock-full of it. The entire design, UX, and creative community does it every single day: “Ugh, this design totally blows. I could make this look so much better.” Photoshop > New ... > My-Better-Layout.psd…

An op-ed from the front lines of product design at MetaLab . First, a disclaimer: the subject of this article is Mobile First in the context of design process, not development. We cool? Okay, nice. Let’s jam. 🤙 You know what really gets on my nerves? Mobile First. Or, more accurately, the…

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is not the first exec to deal with sexual harassment and sexism issues. And he’s not the first to be accused of stealing technology. He’s also not the first to anger customers through cloddish statements. And he’s not the first to face significant doubts about his ability to…

Adrian Dennis / AFP / Getty Images The leaders of the European Union’s remaining 27 member states have unanimously signed off on their Brexit negotiating guidelines with the UK. A source in the room said the agreement was adopted "in under a minute" and followed by applause from the 27 leaders who…

Samantha Bee during rehearsal for Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Photo: Greg Kahn Before she even told a joke on Saturday, Samantha Bee had won. When I told the director of my alma mater’s journalism program, a veteran Washington, D.C., reporter, that I would be in town for Bee’s Not…

Share We celebrate the experimental cinema legend for her centennial. This Saturday is the 100th anniversary of Maya Deren ’s birth, making it a time to honor the filmmaker, her work, and her significance and legacy within not just the arena of experimental cinema but film history in general.…

the three hot trends in Silicon Valley horseshit For a long time I told the same basic joke about Silicon Valley, just updating as some new walled garden network replicated long-existing technology in a format better able to attract VC cash and, presumably, get them ad dollars. 2002, Friendster: At…

More than a year into Twitter’s efforts to turn around the company under the leadership of Jack Dorsey, its business is shrinking. And yet, investors seem to have finally been given a glimmer of hope for the future. But first, the bad news. On Wednesday, Twitter reported its first fall in revenue…

European Council President Donald Tusk has called on the UK to come up with a "serious response" on what will happen to EU citizens in Britain after Brexit. "We need guarantees," he said in Brussels as 27 EU leaders backed the bloc's Brexit negotiating guidelines . The rights of EU citizens to live,…

If you asked me to describe the worst blind date ever, it would go something like this: We arrive at an abandoned warehouse for drinks. My date looks like a cross between John Malkovich and Britney Spears when she was struggling. I can tell I’m gonna need to get drunk to get through this. But first,…

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Photo: Courtesy of Twitter/MattHalfhill In early March, a friend of mine texted me to ask if I wanted to be a talent producer for the Fyre Festival . I’d never heard of it, but the gig involved going to the Bahamas and being paid extremely well. So I said yes and packed my bags. The festival was…

For more than four years, the YouTube channel Feminist Frequency has published new entries in the essay series Tropes vs Women, carefully breaking down the many tired conventions about how women are portrayed in video games. 18 videos and millions of views later, the regularly controversial Tropes…

Protesters in Istanbul last week opposed the results of Turkey’s April 16 referendum. Bulent Kilic/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images ANKARA, Turkey — The credibility of the judges who oversaw Turkey’s referendum last week is being called into question because most of them were hastily appointed…

R emember back when you were a kid? You would just do things. You never thought to yourself, “What are the relative merits of learning baseball versus football?” You just ran around the playground and played baseball and football. You built sand castles and played tag and asked silly questions and…

T hink about this for a moment: Why would you ever choose to be with someone who is not excited to be with you? There’s a grey area in dating many people get hung up on — a grey area where feelings are ambiguous or one person has stronger feelings than the other. This grey area causes real, tangible…

Photo: Netflix Back in June, members of team Vulture picked their favorite TV episode of 2016 at the year’s halfway point . Four weeks later, my choice (the Jenny Slate episode of Girls ) has already been unseated by the fourth episode of BoJack Horseman ’s third season, which premiered today on…

BoJack and a baby seahorse take on the sea. Netflix A tiny cartoon seahorse grips a stallion’s hand. Together, wordlessly, they topple around the ocean through kelp and convenience stores, bop around factories manned by fish, and explore the dark alien depths of the deep sea. It’s very beautiful and…

Wednesday afternoon, nearly the entire membership of the US Senate packed into a bus and headed to the White House grounds for an unprecedented classified briefing from top Trump administration officials on North Korea policy. Such a huge meeting, on such a volatile topic, had people wondering — was…

WASHINGTON — President Trump told the leaders of Mexico and Canada on Wednesday that he would not immediately move to terminate the North American Free Trade Agreement, only hours after an administration official said he was likely to sign an order that would begin the process of pulling the United…