Collaboration has defined the world of work for decades. This former IDEO designer says these days, it’s showing its limits.
Collaboration has defined the world of work for decades. This former IDEO designer says these days, it’s showing its limits.
Something’s afoot in the future of work, but it’s hush-hush. People don’t like talking about it.
Hint: It has everything to do with the fact that they’re related.
Hint: It has everything to do with the fact that they’re related.
When Alli Webb started talking about her idea for Drybar seven years ago, everybody thought she was crazy. On the surface, the concept really doesn’t make much sense. It’s a hair salon, but you don’t actually get a cut or color; all you get is a blow dry. And the whole experience costs you $45. Who would go for that?
Creative director Jonathan Lee explains what Google was thinking when it updated one of the world’s most familiar visual signatures.
Creative director Jonathan Lee explains what Google was thinking when it updated one of the world’s most familiar visual signatures.
Perhaps you didn’t notice when Google updated its logo last fall. The changes were relatively subtle, with a cleaner, sans-serif typography replacing the original’s highly ornamental lettering. But the revamp was actually a big deal, and not just because the logo is viewed trillions of times a year on Google’s search page. It reconceives the logo as an interactive visual device that adds functionality, using a clever animation of dots to communicate various responses to user actions. We spoke to Jonathan Lee, a Google creative director who helped spearhead the redesign, about how he approached the changes.
Nikon says image quality will be the killer feature in its rugged, $500 KeyMission 360 virtual reality camera.
Nikon says image quality will be the killer feature in its rugged, $500 KeyMission 360 virtual reality camera.
When you think of major camera makers, names like 360fly, LG, and Ricoh may not spring to mind. Such newcomers have staked out early spots in the emerging 360-degree virtual reality video market. That changes today as Nikon launches its KeyMission 360 virtual reality camera.
Several new companies are building their businesses around the mainstreaming of androgynous clothing, no longer a passing fad.
Several new companies are building their businesses around the mainstreaming of androgynous clothing, no longer a passing fad.
Androgyny has been a steady part of pop culture for years: Remember David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust in the ’70s, Grace Jones’s flattop hair in the ’80s, Kurt Cobain’s queer grungy looks in the ’90s, and Prince’s endless array of glittery numbers throughout his career?
The people in your office may not trust you as much as you think they do. Here’s how to win them over.
The people in your office may not trust you as much as you think they do. Here’s how to win them over.
Do the people in your office trust you? Maybe not as much as you think they do.
Where Google Glass failed, Hololens seems poised to succeed as a tool for the working man rather than a consumer headset for gamers.
Where Google Glass failed, Hololens seems poised to succeed as a tool for the working man rather than a consumer headset for gamers.
“The space in our cities is limited,” says Andreas Shierenbeck, CEO of ThyssenKrupp Elevator, a company that builds and maintains elevators worldwide. He’s speaking to a small audience in a room with panoramic views of lower Manhattan, 63 stories off the street. Naturally, he’s talking about the need for more elevators in densely packed cities that want to squeeze more living and office quarters into unoccupied vertical spaces.
It isn’t that meetings themselves are necessarily time wasters. It’s what we do during them that matters.
It isn’t that meetings themselves are necessarily time wasters. It’s what we do during them that matters.
Call it a product of busy schedules, increased tech connectivity, or fried attention spans, but for whatever reason, when you gather a group together for a meeting, almost everyone has a hard time ditching distractions and sticking to the task at hand. In fact, 47% of employees cite distracted coworkers as the biggest hurdle to having productive meetings.
This week’s top stories may help you land better-paying gig work or even inspire you to start training for an ultra-marathon.
This week’s top stories may help you land better-paying gig work or even inspire you to start training for an ultra-marathon.
This week we learned how to counter a boss’s morally questionable requests, why extreme sports keep the president of Hotwire grounded at work, and where the most lucrative part-time work can be found.
If you like paying with cash, but don’t want to deal with loose coins, this app will send your change to your phone.
If you like paying with cash, but don’t want to deal with loose coins, this app will send your change to your phone.
Who isn’t frustrated at coming home with a pocket full of loose change? Well, just like almost everything else in the universe, there’s an app for that.
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