Sphero's New Wristband Lets You Control BB-8 With Hand Gestures

It won't float in the air and shoot lasers, but Sphero's latest toy is all about honing your use of the Force. The post Sphero's New Wristband Lets You Control BB-8 With Hand Gestures appeared first on WIRED.

Instagram makes it easier to stalk users

It's time to brush up on your photo editing skills. Instagram is rolling out a feature that will let people get a closer, more intimate look at your pictures.

Popular design news of the week: August 22, 2016 – August 28, 2016

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. 

The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however, in case you missed some here's a quick and useful compilation of the most popular designer news that we curated from the past week.

Note that this is only a very small selection of the links that were posted, so don't miss out and subscribe to our newsletter and follow the site daily for all the news.

20 Amazing CSS Text Effects

 

Designing a Website Ten Years Ago

 

How Spotify's UX Changed Over a Decade

 

Better Web Images

 

Designers Should Learn Marketing

 

Site Design: Android.com

 

Why is Health Care Design so Terrible?

 

CodeDammit: Learn Coding by Looking at Real Examples

 

All your UX are Belong to us

 

Landing: Free UI Kit for Sketch and Photoshop

 

What I Learned Working with Jony Ive's Team on the Apple Watch

 

Apply Pixels: Industry Standard Design Tools

 

The Internet of Poorly Working Things

 

Canvas for iOS: In Realtime, Using Markdown, Instantly Shareable

 

Site Design: Wtfshouldidowithmylife.com

 

Design.blog

 

LinkedIn ProFinder Expands Nationwide to Help You Hire Freelancers

 

Stranger Things Type Generator

 

Linux Took Over the Web. Now, It's Taking Over the World

 

Clever App Brings the Food Label into the Modern Age

 

AI to Help You Write Emails People will Actually Read

 

TeamMood: Track the Well-being of your Team, Easily

 

Lydia 6.0: The Payment App, Redesigned

 

Why AI Consolidation will Create the Worst Monopoly in US history

 

Apple Zero-days Mark a New Era of Mobile hacking

 

Want more? No problem! Keep track of top design news from around the web with Webdesigner News.

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Eight Modernist visitor centres from the USA's Mission 66 National Park programme

The USA's National Park Service celebrates its centenary this week. We've picked out eight of the best visitors centres and amenities designed as part of its Mission 66 project, which took place 50 years ago (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Belief in the Making.™ A digital agency & maker of things.

At 25, the World Wide Web Is Still a Long Way From Reality

The web's not dead. But the dream of truly democratized media is still a dream. The post At 25, the World Wide Web Is Still a Long Way From Reality appeared first on WIRED.

Measponte

The good taste is the expression of stylistic details and intelligent craftsmanship. See things in a different way to search for beauty.

Viacom CEO Out As Redstone Family Reasserts Control

Renegade executive chairman, president and CEO Philippe Dauman leaves in exchange for a $72 million payout.

Rooftop bridge connects riverside house and roadside cafe in a South Korean valley

South Korean studio Lee Haan Architects has completed a house and cafe connected by a bridge and arranged around courtyards with views of a nearby river and cherry trees (+ slideshow). (more…)

Sons Are Still More Likely Than Daughters To Take Over The Family Farm

Traditional gender roles on farms are changing, but slowly. While men are typically still in charge of operations, women are beginning to take on greater leadership.

Mohamed Amine Siana combines flat planes and wavy walls at Villa Z in Casablanca

Architect Mohamed Amine Siana has completed a house in Casablanca, featuring a sculptural exterior intended as a contemporary update of the Modernist architecture found across the Moroccan city (+ slideshow). (more…)

Art Review: 'Alma Thomas,' an Incandescent Pioneer

This exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem expresses belief in the infinite possibilities of human progress from a pioneering modernist perspective.

Dear Donald Trump: This Is Why Nuclear Weapons Are Bad

And it's only Wednesday, y'all. The post Dear Donald Trump: This Is Why Nuclear Weapons Are Bad appeared first on WIRED.

Jamie Wolfond designs minimal glass smoking pipe for Tetra

American designer Jamie Wolfond has designed a simple glass pipe for smoking accessory brand Tetra, which will debut at fashion store Opening Ceremony. (more…)

CSS Writing Mode

Ahmad Shadeed with a bonafide CSS trick:

I noticed a CSS property called writing-mode, this was the first time that I know of it. After some research, I learned that its purpose is for vertical language scripts, like Chinese or Japanese. However, the interesting thing is that when using it with English, we can create a vertical text very easily.

Even in English, writing-mode: vertical-lr; help us lay out text vertically without a bunch of positioning, placeholding, and transforms.

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