Design Museum’s Designs of the Year 2017: Nominees
This year’s nominees are a pretty good reflection of what happened over 2016 – Pokemon Go, Kanye West clothing and the Olympic Refugee Flag.
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The British Library offers over a million free vintage images for download
These centuries-old copyright-free images include everything from from book illustrations to photos – and cover subjects from flowers to cycling and children's books to maps.
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Adobe Flash will die by 2020, Adobe and browser makers say
Adobe plans to phase out its venerable Flash Player by 2020, and browser makers will act even faster to get rid of it.
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Bringing the Natural History Museum’s blue whale to life as it moves to replace Dippy
Design studio Potato has created a web app that allows visitors to explore the whale's life and preservation.
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Strong calls for UK digital & tech sectors to 'improve inclusion and accessibility'
UX agency Sigma's managing director says we can all try harder to be more inclusive from the start of any digital project.
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Ori Toor's bizarre interface designs and print layouts for gibberish
These wonderfully eccentric digital and print designs show that the content doesn't have to make sense to produce great work.
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Inside Skype's major 'Messenger-like' redesign
Skype's next major upgrade prioritises helpful bots and a smart camera over traditional video chats.
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Design collaboration tool Wake is now available for free
A free version of design collaboration software Wake - as used by Facebook, Airbnb and Spotify - has launched today, aimed at smaller design teams.
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Microsoft's 'iMac-you-can-draw-on' Surface Studio: here are the specs, price, release date and info on the Surface Dial and new Surface Pen
Microsoft has just launched the Surface Studio aimed at creative professionals, as well as the Surface Book i7. We take a look at what they have to offer.
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Microsoft’s new Surface Pro boasts a better pen, faster performance
The new Surface Pro boasts a faster, more sensitive and tilt-recognising pen.
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Microsoft redesigns OneNote UI to make it more accessible
Microsoft has moved the navigation elements of OneNote to the left-hand rail on most versions, to benefit accessibility tools like screen readers.
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D&AD Awards 2017: see the best design, advertising, illustration, animation and VR of the past year
The UK's biggest advertising awards gave gongs to some truly outstanding projects, most of which are trying to make the world a better place.
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Here’s how Photoshop works with the new MacBook Pro Touch Bar
Say goodbye to all of those on-screen panels and menus.
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The app design impact of those new taller phones like the Samsung Galaxy S8 and LG G6
In a post on its Android developers blog, Google urges developers to tune their apps for the new 18:9 ratio screens on the LG G6 and the Galaxy S8.
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This free storyboarding tool by Animade will make your life so much easier
Boords is a web-based tool that helps animators, UX designers or anyone else to storyboard in a much more efficient way.
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Emanuele Kabu's animated gifs give you 31 ways to say "get lost"
This animated gif project is unashamedly crude and the perfect uplift after a bad meeting, journey or just an overall crappy day.
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Apple proposes GPU API for 3D graphics on the web
WebGPU proposal would create a standard API for exposing GPU features to web browsers
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Confusion over Adobe Creative Cloud price rises
The price of Adobe Creative Cloud is going up on March 6, which the company is blaming on "fluctuations in currency exchange rates". But there's confusion over what the new pricing will be.
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How to design chatbots and virtual assistants for brands
Designstudio's John Creson on what chatbots and intelligent assistants like Amazon Alexa/Siri can do for brands – and how you need to think about them
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Adobe and Autodesk's criticism of Trump's 'Muslim ban' should have been stronger – and wider
If these companies want their words on this matter to be taken seriously, they should speak out against Trump on ethical subjects that don’t just affect their bottom line, says Neil Bennett.