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Stock Photography of Women of Color in Tech

This project aims to promote diversity in the tech industry by filling a conspicuous gap in stock photography: the availability…

Paris

I’ve loved Paris ever since I first visited in the eighth grade, even though at that time I could only…

Redesigning the Todoist Logo

Last September, Todoist, my preferred to-do manager and an essential part of how I get things done every day, revealed…

FS Brabo

Type designer Fernando Mello’s beautiful new serif typeface from FontSmith is called FS Brabo. It’s based on early book faces,…

Interactive Map of Closed NYC Subway Exits

This article from New York’s WNYC takes a look at the 119 station exits throughout the city’s subway system that…

Bluesmart Suitcase

Do we really need a smartphone-enabled version of everything? There must be some point at which such products cross over…

Protopiper

A computer-aided, handheld fabrication device that lets users “sketch” real world objects—furniture, appliances, life-sized sculptures—at actual scale. The rather janky-looking,…

Prototyping 2015 Panel at Google SPAN

Last week in New York at Google’s annual design conference—formerly called Form but, after Google acquisition of Relative Wave’s Form,…

Desert Island Utilities

I upgraded all but one of my Macs to OS X El Capitan before realizing that it’s not compatible with…

How Sketch Handles Type

In light of the fact that I now work at Adobe, I feel quite ill at ease when it comes…