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A Toronto Development Site Becomes a Showcase for Black Artists

Azure Magazine

Set to run until December, the activation will comprise three months-long public art programs, the first of which was unveiled on February 15. “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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5 Fun Ways to Reuse an Old Laptop

HONGKIAT

Use Your Laptop for Network Attached Storage Your laptop might not have the Ram and processing power you need anymore. Instead, you can use it as Network-attached Storage (NAS) by installing specialist software such as TrueNas Core. Then take a look at the following five fun ways you can reuse your old laptop today.

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

UX Collective

The “Play Something” shuffle feature to find something to watch based on previously watched programs to eliminate, or at least reduce, the decision fatigue felt by users. With linear TV, the decision fatigue is reduced : you just turn on your TV and the program is live. So how Netflix can reduce decision fatigue with other nudges?

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The 15 Best Freelancing Websites for Finding Work

Inkbot Design

Fiverr Launched in 2010, Fiverr has skyrocketed in popularity as a freelancing platform built on fixed-priced gigs starting at just $5. Toptal Launched in 2010, Toptal prides itself on offering only the top 3% of talent for skilled freelancers. Just be prepared to compete aggressively on pricing. Key Stats 2.4+

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12 of the Best Adobe Illustrator Alternatives [Free & Paid]

Graphic Mama

Used by many professional designers, it’s a robust program with plenty of tools and features that could help you create amazing vector designs. But to say it’s the perfect vector program will be exaggerated. But which are they and can they really rival the most used vector editing program in the world? CorelDRAW.

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Interview with Dave Coleman, 2D Animator, Illustrator and Type Designer

Shillington

I had lettering on my radar in the early 2010’s because I was inspired by people like Jessica Hische , Erik Marinovich , James T. In 2015 you took part in the TypeParis program. Can you tell us a bit more about your experiences there and what you feel were the most valuable lessons you took away from your time in the program?

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The mechanics of non-human personas

UX Collective

Beans the possum To better understand how non-human personas could be used in practice, we worked with Dan Vo—at the time a students in the Master of Interaction Design & Electronic Arts program—focusing on the design of a more-than-human parklet intervention. Designers may need to augment this step with other methods. Papanek, V.