Lilly Smith

Thirteen years after launching Everlane, founder Michael Preysman has launched a new company called Magna. The DTC sports beverage company, which launched yesterday, looks to tap into consumer habits around wellness, longevity, and health—think beverage as lifestyle brand. The company calls itself “the world’s first magnesium powered daily hydration formula,” and it caters to sports enthusiasts who aren’t professional athletes but maintain everyday exercise routines that Magna hopes it will…

The baby boomer generation is entering retirement at a time when people are also living longer. And while aging can make a person more susceptible to injury, sickness, and the like, many aging people still want—and expect—to live independently. These are supposed to be the golden years, after all. A new at-home smart product, Cherish Serenity, is designed to make independent living more accessible. It’s a health monitor, two-way radio, and music player that gives continual health and safety…

The small and mighty category of Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Awards honors projects created by companies with fewer than 100 employees. This year’s winner, Cherish Serenity, is a multiroom, radar-based sensor platform that doubles as a communication device and fall alert for elderly users. See all the honorees below. Finalists Branch Work System Branch CharlieChanning Street Copper Co. CMFlexDimension Inx Honorable Mentions Nativa MeterL&…

Figma, the collaborative product design tool that has quickly become a favorite among designers, released a new product in 2023 that deals less with hex codes and more with straight-up coding. Figma Dev Mode is a dedicated space within the Figma platform with a user interface that’s cleaner and more familiar to developers, so they can more efficiently turn a design into a coded product. As an enterprise company, Figma can expand its value prop across a broader product design team. The holisti…

When stakes are high, but cell towers are down, disastrous situations can quickly become desperate ones. Northern California–based cross-disciplinary designer and engineer Tomas Garcia has proposed a solution: For his 2023 master’s thesis at the University of California at Berkeley, Garcia developed “the [tech]tonic toolkit,” an easy, kid-friendly communication device that relies on long-range, low-power mesh networks for post-disaster communication rather than on cell towers (or satellites).…

The student category of Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Awards honors innovative design work created while attending either an undergraduate or graduate program, or within a year of graduation. This year’s winner, Tomas Garcia’s [Tech]tonic Toolkit, is a build-it-yourself, emergency communication device for earthquakes that sends messages over its own resilient mesh network. See all the honorees below. Finalists AnchorSchool of Visual Arts MFA Interaction Design APT:…

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