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A neighborhood landmark gets a garish transformation, and thoughts wander to designer responsibility and online communities.

User communities own and define technologies as much or more than the inventors. A piano from 1817 is the perfect example.

An Acropolis visit is an object lesson in the value of quiet design decisions amid colossal projects.

I kicked Microsoft Word to the curb seven years ago, and my plain-text world has been more productive ever since.

Currency may well be the most important travel interface. In that match-up, Europe wins the coin toss against the US, whose coins border on the unintelligible.

I expected nostalgic photos, but instead got insight into how technology works to spark design innovation.

Audio-obsessed museum visitors prefer to listen to their audio guides rather than look at the art, revealing a lesson in interface design.

An “empathy suit” helps designers discover how well their creations work for aging customers. Are there clues here for software and web developers, too?

An architecture exhibit offers some useful usability lessons for web and software designers.

Don Norman despairs that simple doesn’t sell, and the blogosphere reacts. What makes simplicity so difficult?

Gift ideas, eye candy and brain food for the design-obsessed

When designer’s block strikes, hit up Mother Nature. You’ll be surprised what you might learn.

Color me morbid, but I’ve got this minor fascination with the visual trappings of 19th-century anatomical science.