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6 votes
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How Japan built cities where you could send your toddler on an errand
24 votes -
CF Møller's kaleidoscopic Lego campus debuts in Denmark
4 votes -
Drawing pictures of cities
4 votes -
Why people thought steel houses were a good idea
2 votes -
Casino design and why there are no ninety degree turns in most casinos
4 votes -
Why Barcelona looks weird
5 votes -
The great design of the Dutch government
4 votes -
Suburbia is subsidized - [Strong Towns Ep7]
20 votes -
Why everywhere in the US is starting to look the same
14 votes -
Disney to build a branded community promising “magic” in the California desert
7 votes -
The bewildering architecture of indoor cities
6 votes -
The suburbs are bleeding America dry
13 votes -
The year of dedication that goes into becoming a Mardi Gras Indian
4 votes -
The giant chainmail box that stops a house dissolving
22 votes -
Tom Scott plus Lucy Edwards learn how to fly a plane blind
8 votes -
The last design you'll ever make
7 votes -
What if phones were actually designed for hands?
9 votes -
Lessons from a can opener: The obscurity of the "Safety Can Opener"
14 votes -
(mac)OStalgia: 2021 meets Mac OS 9 (featuring designs for Spotify, Slack, Zoom)
7 votes -
Weird testing infrastructure in pictures
@Kane: testing facility for thyssenkrupp elevators in Zhongshan City pic.twitter.com/2L4jG2Nel6
17 votes -
Quannah Chasinghorse is on a mission - The 19-year-old model is a warrior for her culture and the land her people have inhabited for thousands of years
5 votes -
Why New York’s Billionaires’ Row is half empty
8 votes -
For centuries, indigenous groups in north-east India have crafted intricate bridges from living fig trees. Now this ancient skill is making its way to European cities.
5 votes -
Vintage IKEA! A 1960s armchair just sold for £12k – here are ten other surprising secondhand Swedish hits
4 votes -
LockPickingLawyer keynote at Saintcon
15 votes -
Possibly the worst user interface I've seen all year
This is a webpage for a courier company. This screengrab is the whole page as served to me. If I want to track my parcel I have to enter the details into the pretend phone on the right and pretend...
This is a webpage for a courier company. This screengrab is the whole page as served to me. If I want to track my parcel I have to enter the details into the pretend phone on the right and pretend to use it like a phone, complete with tiny screen and fiddly controls.
I get that they would like me to install their app but this is almost offensively user-hostile design, and pretty much ensures I'll never install anything of the sort. I might consider installing the app of a company who deliver to me regularly and have a good track record of being good at their jobs, if that app offers useful functionality which can't be offered via a web page - but even that's unlikely. But these guys who I have never heard of until today and are pulling this nonsense? No way.
29 votes -
Émile-Antoine Bayard's illustrations for 'Around the Moon' by Jules Verne (1870)
7 votes -
3D printed mirror array
8 votes -
Meet the Swedish artist who hooked British rock royalty on her revolutionary crochet
8 votes -
For decades, US cities have been closing or neglecting public restrooms, leaving millions with no place to go. Here’s how a lack of toilets became an American affliction.
12 votes -
When is the revolution in architecture coming?
5 votes -
Architect resigns in protest over UCSB mega-dorm
21 votes -
Throwing good money after bad car infrastructure
10 votes -
Tour of 'The One', a $500m mansion in Bel-Air
14 votes -
The Mysterious Life of UX Designers
3 votes -
Sexist and offensive vintage ads that would never fly today, 1940-1980
23 votes -
Neuomorphism — A passing fad or is it here to stay?
12 votes -
The mystery of the "same sky" postcards
4 votes -
Housing in Alaska can’t survive climate change. This group is trying a new model.
3 votes -
Recommend me a version control system for design assets (primarily Photoshop & Illustrator)
I'm a software developer working with a small team, and our Google Drive folder tree of UI assets/illustrations/app icons/etc. is becoming increasingly difficult to deal with. Aside from proper...
I'm a software developer working with a small team, and our Google Drive folder tree of UI assets/illustrations/app icons/etc. is becoming increasingly difficult to deal with. Aside from proper versioning, symlinks would be a major plus. Both are kinda-sorta possible with GDrive, but not in a reliable way.
I'm happy to take on a reasonable amount of management myself, although the easier it is for the designers themselves to work with the software, the better. Paid solutions are fine, although open source would be preferable (even as a hosted service) to avoid vendor lock-in down the line.
My instinct is to go with git/GitHub on the basis that we're already deeply familiar with it from the dev side, the GitHub desktop app isn't too onerous for non-techies, and we're already paying for it. That said, I'd be very interested in anyone's real-world experience of git for multiple gigs of 10-200MB binary files. I've heard that it's not especially well suited, although that might be out of date knowledge?
Beyond that, I'm open to almost anything. I'm kind of surprised that I haven't been able to find a single "gold standard" piece of software here, in the way that git is for developers, but maybe I haven't been searching well enough? Any pointers in the right direction or stories of what has/hasn't worked for your teams would be a huge help!
17 votes -
The real first 3D printed buildings (1930s)
3 votes -
Happily sharing that one of my all-time favorite sites, LooksLikeGoodDesign, is (partially) back online
7 votes -
Nissin to sell a fork specially designed for its cup ramen
17 votes -
Three strange river crossings
4 votes -
Copenhagen is great… but it’s not Amsterdam
8 votes -
The history of tie-dye
6 votes -
Typography on the web
3 votes -
Questions about Próspera, answered
4 votes -
Why Britain's newbuilds are so ugly
7 votes