Palette Offers a Modular, Lego-like Device for All of Your Input Hardware Needs

Palette buttons can be re-arranged and customized by the user.As any artist, designer or...

January 17, 2014

A New Prize for Design and Social Impact

The Leveraged Freedom Chair, a wheelchair optimized for rural terrain. All images courtesy Icsid.As...

December 16, 2013

A Museum of Mobile UX Practices

"Good artists borrow. Great artists steal."These words have been attributed multiple times to Pablo...

December 13, 2013

From Shenzhen to San Francisco: HAXLR8R's Third Demo Day

Calvin Chu pitches Palette at the HAXLR8R Demo Day in San Francisco. All event...

December 3, 2013

A Case for Coding

Hacking away at San Francisco's Freespace, a pop-up space for artists, designers, developers and...

November 25, 2013

A Car for Distracted Driving

Driving, as we all know, requires complete and total attention. When operating a...

November 18, 2013

Evernote's Digital/Analog Bridge and the Death of Skeuomorphism

Image via evernote.com. At first glance, it seems natural: when designing notepad software, why not...

November 14, 2013

Collaborative Simplicity: A Tour of Square's New Office and Products

Photos courtesy of SquarePhotos courtesy of SquareThe first time it happened, I took time...

November 12, 2013

A Self-Stabilizing Spoon for Hand Tremors

One of the most devastating experiences of diseases that affect motor abilities is the...

November 11, 2013

Designing for the Apocalypse: 'News From Nowhere' at SAIC's Sullivan Galleries Critically Examines the Near Future

The premise of Desert Island Discs, one of the BBC's most popular radio programs,...

November 11, 2013

Fire Up this Portable USB Charger for Your Off-the-Grid Power Needs

At this point, any observant tech ethnographer knows that no one leaves their home...

November 7, 2013

Crowdfunding a Billboard for a Social Message

While the Internet has given us a great deal of control over our media...

October 8, 2013

A Crowdfunding Site for Cities

October 2, 2013

A Peripheral Light to Guide Your Bicycle Ride

One great thing about smartphones is that they present a readily-accessible map and GPS...

October 1, 2013

Can a GIF-Like Web Site Teach Typography?

Arial or Helvetica?Typography is one of those underappreciated art forms outside of the design...

September 25, 2013

A Time-Lapse Video of the New SF Bay Bridge

Eight years later and the Bay Bridge is finally up. As the much-neglected stepsibling...

September 24, 2013

How Monitoring Can Affect User Experience

Image CC BY-SA Michael CochlanOne of the simplest but most impactful design decisions inside...

September 23, 2013

Electric Bikes: Is It Really Time?

An electric bicycle parked in Shanghai. Image CC BY-SA Lars Plougmann.Here at Core77, we've...

September 19, 2013

A Self-Contained Making Space

The Microfactory is designed for small spaces and can even work on a desk....

September 17, 2013

Take a Peek at MESH Norway, Oslo's First Coworking Space

Photo by Kjetil Hasselgård In a city like Oslo, which is officially the most expensive...

September 16, 2013

An Open Courseware Series of Textbooks for Design

A screenshot of the Interaction Design Foundation siteA solid design education is an excellent...

September 11, 2013

Cafe Sounds Anywhere You Go

Another day, another design, another multi-hour stretch to focus focus focus on your design...

May 3, 2013

Notes from the Field: Solar Panels in Rural Uganda

Around California, I've been seeing more and more solar panels. Solar panels installed subtly...

May 2, 2013

Mentoring Rising Tech Talent in Uganda's Capital

Ivan Mworozi delivers the winning pitch for E-Ride, a new mobile rideshare program being...

February 20, 2013

Where Are the Design Apprenticeships?

Core77 Design Awards 2012 Student Notable for Educational Initiatives Retail: Retell. Recycle. Rethink.In the...

January 30, 2013

Apps for Close Friends

In the world of tech design, bigger seems to be better. The more people...

January 28, 2013

Me Yourself with 3D Printing

The first batch of Mixees arrive from the printer. All images courtesy of MixeeMe.Custom...

January 1, 2013

Core77 2012 Year in Review: Designing Nostalgia

Image via WikipediaAs we look to 2013, it's a common practice amongst designers to...

December 28, 2012

Custom Lights for Circadian Therapy, Wearable and DIY

Travel a lot? Keep weird hours? Sleep is a common problem for designers, especially...

December 19, 2012

Solitaire.exe Finds Its Physical Roots

It's hard to imagine, but it really wasn't that long ago when we stared...

December 18, 2012

Notes from the Field: Technology in Rural Uganda

Continuing from my earlier scattering of field notes, in this post, I want to...

November 29, 2012

Notes from the Field: Design Observations in Uganda

I've been living in Kampala, Uganda, for the past month now, and it's truly...

October 30, 2012

Designing for Nostalgia--Is the iTypewriter Part of a Larger Trend?

Image via Austin YangThe iPad, as they say, is the ultimate consumer machine. Deprived...

September 6, 2012

The Busy Trap? Get Creative by Getting Idle

A few weeks ago, an intriguing New York Times blog post started making the...

September 5, 2012

A Community-Owned Map Accessed via Mesh Networks

Only accessible via a local wifi mesh network, the Red Hook version of Tide...

September 4, 2012