Why your best-looking candidates often perform the worst

Business 2/24 12:22P Natasha Nuytten

Research shows top performers can be eight times more productive—yet most hiring systems are designed to filter them out.

Apple killed Dark Sky. Now its creators are trying again with a new weather app

Business 2/24 10:32A Chris Morris

Acme Weather brings back the team behind the cult-favorite forecast app, with new features designed to show uncertainty. Dark Sky was a rarity in the app world. Universally beloved, the weather app had an uncanny ability to tell you when to...

Listen to Oscar nominee Hannah Beachler on our By Design podcast

Business 2/24 9:53A Mark Wilson

For this month’s episode, we’re talking ‘Sinners’. The film—and everyone responsible for Microsoft Teams. “I want a space odyssey. I wanted Star Wars. I got close to that once.”

It’s time to rethink assessment for learning

Business 2/23 6:36P Tom Ap Simon

AI is reshaping classrooms and careers, and assessment design must keep pace. For decades, formative assessment has been a silent engine for learning—powering insights about student progress and worker readiness. But let’s be honest, in a world...

Why Gen Z is so obsessed with Depop

Business 2/20 5:00A Grace Snelling

Depop has hands-down the best design of any resale platform right now. The retail platform eBay is set to acquire fashion resale app Depop from Etsy in a $1.2 billion transaction. Ostensibly, the deal will help eBay to cultivate a new audience of...

Here’s how Elon Musk’s giant moon cannon would actually work

Business 2/20 5:00A Jesus Diaz

Musk says the key to his moon mission is a ‘mass driver,’ a giant magnetic catapult that was originally designed in the 1970s. I really want to see a mass driver on the moon that is shooting AI satellites into deep space, Elon Musk said last week...

The legal fight that could force Apple to rethink iCloud design

Business 2/19 3:00P Taylor Hatmaker

West Virginia’s attorney general alleges Apple failed to prevent child sexual abuse material from being stored and shared through iOS and iCloud. West Virginia’s attorney general filed a lawsuit against Apple on Thursday accusing the iPhone maker...

Lego’s new Monet-inspired set is full of hidden details

Business 2/19 11:00A Grace Snelling

Lego’s designers took a lesson in Impressionism to create this wall-worthy set. From afar, Lego ’s new set inspired by Claude Monet’s painting Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies looks like a slightly more vivid version of the original. Step a bit...

This clever ‘curling bowl’ is perfect for elite snackers

Business 2/18 6:00A Grace Snelling

Swedish designer Gustaf Westman’s new piece of functional dishware is ice rink-ready. If you’re tuning in to the Milan Cortina Olympics, you may be one of many spectators who’s suddenly invested in the sport of curling. You’re in good company:...

The internet’s favorite design shop is closing. Its founder reflects on what went wrong

Business 2/18 5:00A Diana Budds

After more than 20 years of bringing experimental products to life, Areaware is shutting down and taking a seemingly bygone era of design with it. In early February, the 22-year-old design brand Areaware announced it will close on May 1 citing...

Unilever’s new headquarters in New Jersey puts its product development process on full display

Business 2/18 5:00A Nate Berg

Product ideation, testing, and marketing spaces are built into the spine of consumer packaged goods giant’s new North American headquarters. For consumer packaged goods, the path from product idea to store shelves runs directly through the center...

The first-ever Snoopy set is Lego perfection

Business 2/18 4:30A Jesus Diaz

The latest Lego Ideas set captures Charles Schulz’s design in brick form. Recently, I made myself a promise: I would not buy any more Lego for at least a year. That plan has quickly been foiled. Lego s first-ever Peanuts set is just too good, too...

How to thrive in the era of the ‘supermanager’

Business 2/18 4:00A Lindsay Dodgson

As organizations eliminate layers of middle management, supermanagers are becoming the norm. Here’s what the shift means for burnout, productivity, and leadership. If you’re a manager today, your job may well be changing. That is, if it hasn’t...

How gamification is transforming public health

Business 2/17 6:07P Kathy Crosby

Why game design matters for healthier outcomes At its core, public health is about driving healthy behavior changes by building awareness, meeting people where they are, and offering solutions that are accessible and grounded in evidence....

How to design a portfolio career that works: These Renaissance women show how it’s done

Business 2/17 5:00A Anisa Purbasari Horton

As juggling multiple jobs and projects as a career becomes more commonplace, meet the multi-hyphenate women who are making a living while maintaining control. Gabriela Flax spent the first part of her career working in tech as a product manager....