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A smartphone screen shows a chat interface with an AI assistant named DeepSeek. The screen displays the text, “Hi, I’m DeepSeek. How can I help you today?” and a typed message below asking, “Why is everyone freaking out about DeepSeek?”
Products & Culture / Software Engineering

Reasoning Models and the DeepSeek Panic

In 2024, AI companies like NVIDIA and OpenAI experienced rapid growth. In particular, many investors believed that demand for high-end Graphical Processing Units (GPUs), a special kind of hardware well-suited …

A Pantone color swatch book open to a page displaying various shades of blue in uncoated solid chips. The pages are bound with black rings, showcasing precise color selections used for design and branding.
design research / design thinking / product development / Products & Culture

How Designers Choose Colors

In product design, seemingly small choices have huge impacts on a design’s success in the marketplace and in use. One of the most important choices is color. The colors incorporated …

The output of an object detection model trained to identify birds - the computer has placed outlines around the birds and labeled each as a “bird"
product development / Products & Culture

Using Synthetic Data to Drive Machine Learning

What is Machine Learning?  Over the past few years, data scientists have been making remarkable breakthroughs in the field of machine learning, a process that allows humans to quite literally …

Steve Ross and the team at Onsite ICF
product development / Products & Culture

Putting Housing Within Reach Through Engineering

Globally, there are nearly 1 billion people, or 1 out of every 8 of us, who do not have access to adequate permanent shelter. It’s a problem that feels overwhelming, …

Close Up of Air Filter Cage Construction to Stop the Spread of COVID-19.
Products & Culture

Daedalus COVID-19 Precautions and a Healthier Future

With three effective vaccines being distributed, a time when we can put this pandemic behind us is on the horizon. But that time isn’t here yet – and is likely six …

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design thinking / Products & Culture

Delightful Microinteractions

I’ve written in the past about how poorly-designed micro-interactions can undermine your users’ confidence in and commitment to your product or platform, and why you should seriously undertake the effort …

Eight books on a desk held up by bookends with a small crochet amigurumi of Frankenstein to the right.
design thinking / Products & Culture

What’s in Your Desktop Design Library?

As a relatively new UX/UI designer, I’m always on the lookout for great resources for learning more about the field. And between online training modules, YouTube tutorials, and UX design …

A close up of a left handed person writing on a pad of paper in front of a computer.
product development / Products & Culture

Don’t Count Out the Lefties — The Importance of Considering Every User in UX/UI Counts

Recently, I was using an animation app on my iPad when my design suddenly vanished! It didn’t take long for me to identify the culprit — there was an undo …

A smart phone displaying "hello" sitting on a desktop.
design thinking / Products & Culture

Notoriously Notched X Not iPhone’s Ruination

According to a click-bait link to Slate, and a slew of articles elsewhere, iPhone X sales are “abysmal”. However, the 3rd party data in the Slate article​, data that says 30% …

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design thinking / Products & Culture

Irredeemable 2-Spacers (Aka Teaching Outmoded Skills)

A little while back, our office had a rather lively email debate about how many spaces should be typed after a period—no, I’m not joking, this actually happened. Anyway, about …

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