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Riken Yamamoto Wins 2024 Pritzker Architecture Prize

Azure Magazine

Demonstrating a diverse mastery of scale, one side of the building features an expansive uniform façade, while the other unlocks its own city that evokes medieval towns of Switzerland imbued with new technologies evolved for present and future lifestyles. It is an ethos served by varying, context-specific and rigorous design strategies.

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Zaha Hadid Architects: Vertical Urbanism, the Exhibition

Design Milk

The newly opened Zaha Hadid Architects: Vertical Urbanism exhibition showcases the bold, explorative urbanism they’re known for through a variety of design strategies used to create vibrant and sustainable community-orientated spaces within densely populated urban spaces.

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Women’s History Month–Worldview Purveyors

Thinking Design

Gere Kavanaugh (1929-present) The paragon of a multi-hyphenate designer, Gere Kavanaugh’s vibrant and daring imagination has sparked on everything from furniture, interior, and exhibition design, to graphics, toys, and textiles. In 2014 Kavanaugh was awarded the Julia Morgan Icon Award, and in 2016 she won the AIGA medal.

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Guide to Legal Requirements for Website Designers

Inkbot Design

Privacy by Design The notion of “privacy by design” referenced under GDPR provides helpful guidance for developers even when not legally required. The concept emphasises baking privacy protections into website design rather than leaving it as an afterthought. rules direct federal sites to satisfy at least WCAG 2.0

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5 Best UX Books to Elevate Your Design Skills

Inkbot Design

The book resonates with a core principle that every design decision should prioritise user convenience, ensuring visitors can intuitively discern the path forward without resorting to laborious mental gymnastics. Beyond merely presenting the importance of simplicity, Krug illuminates the path towards achieving it.

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How to improve Experience Design by managing cognitive biases

UX Collective

For example, continuing investment in CX programs or design strategies that do not yield the expected results. 3) De-bias stakeholder presentations and executive reporting Researchers presenting customer data analyses often include verbatim customer quotes to increase empathy. F., & Thijssen, P.

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Designing with the brain in mind: a deep dive into neuroaesthetics

UX Collective

In this article, I will delve deeper into the theory of neuroaesthetics, explore how our brains process beauty, and examine the implications of color, symmetry, balance, and shapes in our designs. So let’s find out how neuroscience can empower us to become better designers! Neuropsychologia 80 (2016) Helmut Leder, Marcos Nadal.