Jeff Link

Everyone but me seemed to be using the Starbucks app. I set out to investigate what’s up with that.

Planning ahead can save you lots of headaches.

Shortly after learning his wife Bibi was pregnant, Shalin Amin put his San Francisco apartment on the market. Amin considers himself an adept problem-solver, and not without justification. Years earlier, as head of design at Uber, he worked closely with Travis Kalanick, co-founder and former CEO at Uber, helping guide the direction of an end-to-end ride-hailing app some claim has revolutionized transportation and ushered in the gig economy.

Years in the making, its autonomous ride service is going live.

Operating out of mini warehouses on wheels, Enjoy’s technicians will set your new gear up for you.

Behavioral design leverages human psychology to influence people’s choices and habits. It is a research-driven framework characterized by extensive user and stakeholder interviews, site observations, literature reviews, usability testing and evaluation.

Several years ago, #AirbnbWhileBlack shot to Twitter prominence. Applying the hashtag to their tweets, Black users shared examples of discrimination by hosts on the home-sharing site.

Is mobile-first design here to stay? Tech leaders weigh in.

Imagine a custom interface for every website visitor. It’s not that far away.

There’s no definitive account of why the first version of Google Glass failed to win consumer acceptance. Some argue it fell prey to its own hype, marketed as a finished product before the kinks were worked out. Others felt it was unfashionable — a missed target falling somewhere between haute couture cyborg and lightweight Robocop.

Designers of tech offices think collaborative “touchdown” spaces could be the way forward for hybrid work.

Last March, three weeks after Joseph Siwak was hired as an experience designer at the online hotel-booking company Rocket Travel, they sent him home — not with a pink slip, but with a new set of marching orders. “I went from, literally, being in the middle of a normal traveler journey map to saying, ‘OK, what could the new normal be?’” Siwak said.

Thanks in large part to these developers who are blind.

Picture this: It’s June 11, 2046 and a young designer, Vance, wakes up and puts on an earpiece called Eva. The device, a brain-computer interface (BCI) of the future, decodes neural signals in his brain. Using only his thoughts, he asks the device to report his daily notifications and 13 new “thought messages” appear on his phone.

When David Chin, creative lead at the software company MURAL, is settling into his workday, he’ll send introductions to his team with a furry companion: the otter emoji. Laying on its back, paws splayed jauntily across its belly and wearing an unconcerned smile, the custom Slack emoji adds levity to his morning routine. “It’s the perfect opportunity,” he said. “Otter emoji.”

What’s the significance of NFT design and art today? Here’s what designers and artists should know about the medium and where the NFT market is heading.

While both frameworks stem from agile philosophies, they operate differently. Scrum defines requirements and output based on time — the length of a sprint — while kanban follows more of a triage approach, allowing teams to swarm on high-priority tasks as they arise.

Here’s what design experts and hiring managers look for in your graphic design portfolio, as well as examples to inspire you.

Industries are using photogrammetry to take photos of an object from different angles and locations to create digital maps, meshes, 3D models and more.

Information architecture can be described in many ways, but there is wide consensus in the design community that a thoughtful approach can make a significant difference.