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Interfaces release the potential of complex systems and technologies to the users who need them. Take a tour of how interfaces have changed the world.
35 Interfaces Culture
With more than 20,000 selections dating back to 1924, the AIGA Design Archives is a vital record of all disciplines of communication design.
AIGA Design Archives Design
The definitive resource for title sequence design, spanning the film, television, conference, and video game industries run by Managing Editor Lola Landekic and Senior Editor Will Perkins
Art of the Title Cinema
If you love to travel and want authentic destinations, then Atlas Obscura is a definitive guidebook and friendly tour-guide with travel tips, articles, strange facts and unique events to the world's most wondrous places.
Atlas Obscura Trends
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A great site that addresses real urbanism and sustainability. The Center for Neighborhood Technology has been a leader in promoting more livable and sustainable urban communities.
Center for Neighborhood Technology Planning
Wonderful curated resource of contemporary art and visual expression that explores a vast range of creative disciplines.
Colossal Ideas
One of the great seminal magazines led by Tibor Kalman of M&Co. The merging of great editorial and design created a magazine that was full of ideas and pushed the limits on subject and response.
Colors Magazine Ideas
Nate Burgos, a good friend is the curator of designfeast, a wonderful webliography of a wide range of quality design and creative resources. He has also branched out into interviews and video book reviews.
Design Feast Portal
One of the best aggregated series of writers about design on the web. Design Observer continues to have great curated content on a wide variety of topics.
Design Observer Ideas
One of the successful pioneers of curating an aggregated set of design trends which provides inspiration to designers and people alike.
Dezeen Trends
The United States Digital Service improves governmental services through design. Their playbook is a common-sense series of principles that defines a unified and holistic way to deliver value to the American people.
Digital Services Playbook Methods
Display is a curated collection of important modern, mid 20th century graphic design books, periodicals, advertisements and ephemera. Great examples of books that we should know about.
Display Publishing
John Thackara's blog on a wide variety of subjects that are connected to design and qualitative improvements to thinking and doing.
Doors of Perception Ideas
A great series of overviews on design and activities defined as design. This site has grown to three separate themes and is a daily stop for me to get inspired and learn about the diversity of design responses.
Fast Company: Design Ideas
A wonderfully curated location that searches for well executed websites that merge content, structure and emotion in a seamless whole.
Favorite Website Awards Interactive
Created by Nathan Yau, a PhD candidate at UCLA. The site aggregates many explorations of how designers, statisticians, and computer scientists are using data to understand the world around us.
Flowing Data Visualization
Technology is giving life the potential to flourish like never before... Or to self destruct. Let's have optimistic visions of the future, including positive ways for humanity to steer its own course considering new technologies and challenges.
Future of Life Institute Futurism
The blog for GOOD magazine, where in a world where things too often don't work, it seeks a path that does. The blog continually demonstrates people who are committed to 21st century collaborations.
Good Design Blog Ideas
Sidewalk Labs is an urban innovation company that tackles cities' greatest challenges. While not all of their ideas pan out, I do admire they are trail blazing how to integrate all sorts of technologies into a sensible environment.
Google Sidewalk Labs Technology
A wonderful hub for engineering, medicine, business, law, the humanities, sciences, and education find their way to take on the world's messy problems together.
Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford Education
Not everything on the internet plays nice, so IFTTT is on a mission to build a more connected world. IFTTT. is the easy way to get devices talking to each other.
If This, Then That Methods
A good curated space for insights, case studies and practical solutions for innovation, business models, services and customer engagement.
Innovation Management Ideas
Harvard Business Review called the LUMA System a "Taxonomy of Innovation" to help you choose the best tool for each step of the innovation process, based on the people you’re designing for and the complexity of the systems in which you operate.
LUMA Institute Methods
A guide for purposeful action, celebrating and popularizing the efforts of those who use design thinking to create positive cultural change.
Living Principles Sustainability
A unique group that dives deep into news stories and uses images, video and other types of media to explain complex news events to gain greater clarity and journalistic truth.
New York Times Visual Investigations Technology
NextDesign Leadership Institute was founded in 2002 in New York by GK VanPatter and Elizabeth Pastor as an experiment in community innovation acceleration.
NextD Frameworks
A visual filtration of ideas + aesthetics + amusements with visually stunning imagery, the latest in international trends, and a passion for all things well designed through a community of creatives, design lovers, and trendsetters.
Notcot Trends
Focusing on visual literacy, or the ability to evaluate, apply, or create conceptual visual representations by Prof. Dr. Martin Eppler of the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
Periodic Table of Visualization Methods Methods
SENSEable City Laboratory, a new research initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to explore the deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics in monitoring urban environments.
Senseable City Lab Technology
Follow Destin as he explores the world using engineering and physics explaining things we just take for granted. Much of what we think we know how something works is wrong. Find out why.
Smarter Every Day Education
Based on Robert Bringhurst's book The Elements of Typographic Style - Richard Rutter adapts the principles to digital typographic applications.
The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web Typography
Hidden Brain helps curious people understand the world – and themselves. Using science and storytelling, Shankar Vedantam reveals the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, the biases that shape our choices, and the triggers that direct the course of our relationships.
The Hidden Brain Ideas
Explore more than 334 billion web pages saved over time. If you get bored seeing how your favorite website has developed over time, go to main archive.org and find some movies you can't find.
The Internet Archive Archive
The seminal lab that has envisioned the impact of emerging technologies on everyday life that promise to fundamentally transform our most basic notions of human capabilities.
The Media Lab Technology
Annie Leonard began sharing what she'd learned about the way humans make, use and throw away stuff through her 20-minute cartoon about trash - which has turned into the Story of Stuff project.
The Story of Stuff Sustainability
A great resource that identifies all sorts of trends and behaviors, Reinier Evers and his team scans the globe for the most promising consumer trends, insights and related hands-on business ideas.
Trend Watching Trends
Andrea Felipe's visual blog of good design through poster culture and the pure forms of graphic design with a strong focus on typography and expressive graphical compositions, with the intent that it inspires others.
Typographic Posters Typography
USAFacts is a non-partisan, not-for-profit data-driven portrait of the American population, our government’s finances, and government’s impact on society based on publicly available government data sources. Steve Ballmer, the former Microsoft CEO is the founder.
USAFacts Visualization
Improving the User Experience with well tested and confirmed methods, template and guidelines in creating better digital experiences.
Usability.Gov Usability
Founder of Adaptive Path, Jesse James Garrett's aging but still relevant reference resource on the cognitive and representational elements that create digital experiences.
Visual Vocabulary for Describing IA and ID Technology
A simple, accessible, and powerful online resource dedicated to explaining current web terminology - without your having to sit through long, drawn-out monologues.
WebSmart TV Technology