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Carl and Elena Schrónez: Spotlight on Detroit Small Businesses
“Don’t be limited by what others say or think, or by what others believe is possible.”
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Samantha Zhang on Crafting Design Systems for Big Data
Tailoring design for one dataset is easy — designing a system that works for all datasets is much more difficult.
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How a Detroit Hackathon Turned into WordPress.com’s First-Ever TV Spots
In February, a volunteer team of WordPress developers spent 48 hours launching new websites for nine small businesses in Detroit to help add visibility to the city’s rising economy.
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Lisa Katayama: The Power of Stories in a Complex World
Stories connect us to ourselves and to each other.
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Hajj Flemings: What Is Human Brand Design?
The connection between the physical and digital worlds requires a human element.
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Caroline Sinders on Ethical Product Design for Machine Learning
What’s needed and necessary right now is for designers to have a technical understanding of machine learning.
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Fatimah Kabba on The Other Unicorn Skill: Writing
In a world fascinated by the unicorn designer that is a coding savant, I want to call on designers to pay closer attention to something else: words.
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Ash Huang: How Much Poison Is Acceptable in Our Technology?
Ash Huang on How Much Poison Is Acceptable in Our Technology?
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Megs Fulton on Designing for Doctors and Health Technology
Last year I gave a short talk about designing for both physicians and patients at a Design + Healthcare event hosted by John Maeda and Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers. Prior to this, most of my […]
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Wendy Johansson on Designing a UX Academy in Mexico
Hiring UX designers remains a huge challenge - inside and outside of Silicon Valley. How do you solve that problem?