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How Netflix creates immersive UX, AI predicts crime a week in advance, the history of Magic Eye images, Helvetica becomes an NFT...
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User Experience
Stealing like an artist — design heuristics in creative ideation
Mental shortcuts and cognitive frameworks aren’t only useful in everyday judgments and problem-solving. When faced with creative challenges, we can also tap into our “design brain” to channel previously encountered ideas into our own work.
How Netflix creates Immersive UX Design and What We Can Learn From Them
Digital Trust
Is Your New Car a Threat to National Security?
Putting sensor-packed Chinese cars on Western roads could be a privacy issue. Just ask Tesla.
How to track your period safely post-Roe
Here's a guide to keeping your menstrual cycle information private.
Deepfakes Might Be Used in Remote Job Interviews, FBI Warns
The FBI said in an announcement that it has received complaints of people deepfaking their way into job interviews.
AI & Machine Learning
AI predicts crime a week in advance with 90 per cent accuracy
An artificial intelligence that scours crime data can predict the location of crimes in the coming week with up to 90 per cent accuracy, but there are concerns how systems like this can perpetuate bias
AI is primed to have an outsize impact on the field of dentistry
There are more X-rays of teeth than there are any other kind of imaging, and that high volume can help perfect machine learning algorithms.
Events
London Design Festival 2022: installations and design districts revealed
The capital’s most prominent design festival celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.
Design
From inventing colours to designing the Olympic Games, itsnicethat take a look at the extraordinary work of Otl Aicher
In an extract from the new book Otl Aicher: Design. Type. Thinking – published by Prestel – writers Christopher Haaf and Hannes Gumpp pen an essay on the iconic designer’s relationship with colour, its significance on his work and how he went on to influence the world over.
The Hidden History of Magic Eye, the Optical Illusion That Briefly Took Over the World
How a 1990s op-art phenomenon went from a tech-spec magazine to households everywhere
Branding
Is There a Difference Between a Cult and a Brand?
The recent slew of TV shows on cults + tech titans proves that they’re way more similar than we think
How to rebrand Venezia FC, the “world’s most fashionable club”?
The new look – encompassing logo and pre-match shirts – returns Venezia’s lion to gold from its previous white, producing a fiercer, more “stylish” emblem.
Their Twitter account is pretty funny too:
Typography
Monotype has created an NFT collection
Helvetica is being used to develop Monotype’s first ever digital art collection, in partnership with our friends at KnownUnknown, an emerging Web3 creative community. More than two dozen prolific artists have come together to create a unique digital collection celebrating Helvetica and the role of typography in culture. The collection explores several ideas and mediums, unique and personal to each artist, all converted to digital formats and available as NFTs beginning later this month.
Aureum Marries Victorian Ornamentation With the Organic Tendrils of Houseplants
Its foundry, Greenhouse Type, started off as a thesis project, when plants proved one of the few available inspiration sources during lockdown