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.”

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.

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.

Hajj Flemings: What Is Human Brand Design?

The connection between the physical and digital worlds requires a human element.

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.

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.

Ash Huang

Ash Huang: How Much Poison Is Acceptable in Our Technology?

Ash Huang on How Much Poison Is Acceptable in Our Technology?

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 […]

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?