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A Toronto Development Site Becomes a Showcase for Black Artists

Azure Magazine

“Afrophilia: Beloved” will be presented at 355 Adelaide until April 28. “Since 2010, BAND has been dedicated to connecting Black culture to communities to inspire, enlighten, and educate through the arts,” said BAND co-founder and director Karen Carter.

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Instagram vs Facebook: Navigating the Social Media Showdown

Inkbot Design

Among the multitude of platforms available, Instagram and Facebook stand out as two of the most dominant networks, each boasting over a billion monthly active users. Since their inception in 2010 and 2004, respectively, they have carved distinct niches while also overlapping in critical areas.

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In ‘The Cultivar Series,’ Uli Westphal Gets to the Root of Crop Diversity and Agricultural Modification

Colossal

Back in 2010, photographer and crop cultivator Uli Westphal took an interest in the ways breeding and genetic modifications were affecting the availability of certain species after a visit to VERN e.V. via Present & Correct ). “I walked into a greenhouse full of tomato plants bearing fruits that I had never seen in my life.”

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It’s time for dimensional thinking in design

UX Collective

Alive in the present.” Alive in the present The temporality of time brings us closer to the present, from a hundred years to a few minutes of reading this article. One source of collective comes from the Actor Network Theory (ANT) by Bruno Latour. Reassembling the Social : An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory.

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To be, or not to be: Should voice interfaces (VUIs) try to be human-like?

UX Collective

While GUIs communicate their range of functions through visual screens, voice-only interfaces present such cues only through their speech. However, bestowing only certain traits of humanness can lead users to believe that all its other traits are also present, implying an all-or-nothing approach when emulating humanness (Moore, 2017b).

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Netflix vs. decision fatigue: How to solve the paradox of choice

UX Collective

Design a new social proof, yes, but a more relevant one with users’ networks and relatives. As presented above, the norms followed by loved ones are more effective in influencing an individual, than the norms followed by society at large. So how Netflix can reduce decision fatigue with other nudges? Kruglanski (coord.), Thaler, R.

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Remembering David Kennedy

Creative Review

Back in 2010 I flew from Amsterdam to Portland to ask David Kennedy’s permission to start a school in his name. He taught us to be present in the life of those away from the spotlight, and to invest our time in finding what makes them happy, and present them with just that, joy.