Swedish brand Void has launched a watch that is only seven millimetres thick, which is now available to buy from Dezeen Watch Store. Read more
Thursday, October 20, 2016
Art Review: Kerry James Marshall's Paintings Show What It Means to Be Black in America
Restoration work completes on sculpture gallery at Philip Johnson's Glass House
The sculpture gallery designed by American architect Philip Johnson in the grounds of his iconic Glass House in Connecticut has been restored to its former glory. Read more
Friday, October 14, 2016
Calatrava's Dubai Creek observation tower breaks ground
Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava has released more images of his proposed Dubai Creek Tower – now under construction and expected to surpass the 828-metre-high Burj Khalifa. Read more
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
JSa lines Hotel Carlota courtyard with black concrete blocks
Lattices of dark blockwork wrap around a verdant courtyard and narrow swimming pool at this hotel in Mexico City, overhauled by local firm JSa. Read more
Albuquerque Police Shooting Trial Ends In A Hung Jury
Two former officers were on trial for murder in the 2014 shooting of a homeless man. The DOJ cited the shooting in its finding of a pattern of excessive force within Albuquerque's police department.
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Designing Card-Based User Interfaces
Web and mobile apps are moving away from pages towards completely personalized experiences. These new experiences are built on an aggregation of many individual pieces of content. The way this content is now being presented is in the form of cards. The card-based interaction model is spreading pretty widely, and you can see digital cards almost everywhere - from news sites to food delivery apps.
In this article, I'll explain what cards mean to UI designers, and I'll review three popular card-based services. If you're interested in prototyping your own card-based user interface, you can download and test Adobe's Experience Design CC for free and get started right away.
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Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Government Contractor Arrested, Charged With Removing Classified Materials
Harold Martin was arrested on Aug. 27; his case was made public Wednesday. Authorities say a search of his home found multiple top secret documents "obtained from sensitive intelligence."
Miss Last Night's VP Debate? Here's the Full Video
Clarifai Wants You to Correct AI's Biggest Gaffes
London needs to address its profit-and-loss skyline, says Antony Gormley
London's latest crop of skyscrapers don't give enough back to the city according to British sculptor Antony Gormley, who claims the British capital is growing at the expense of its citizens (+ interview). (more…)
Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Photoshop Elements 15 and Premiere Elements 15 are out
It's worth remembering that web designers are hardly the only people making pretty things for the web. We're certainly not the only people creating content for the sites that we ourselves build. The corollary here is that a lot of these people will be consumers, and will be using consumer-grade tools. It's a good idea, then, to keep an eye on the tools that non-professionals will be using, and keep them in mind when we work.
In this case, those tools are Photoshop Elements 15, and Premiere Elements 15, both of which were just released by Adobe. They've both been updated with a number of features to make photo and video editing easier for beginners, and anyone who just wants to put something that looks good on their Facebook feed.
In fact, creating media for social networks is one of the major focuses for Adobe's Elements series these days. It makes sense. People largely don't print out family photos anymore. They put them in albums on their social media site of choice, and make comments designed to embarrass their teenagers.
You know, the usual family stuff, only now the whole world can see it! Progress!
And now, Adobe's making it easier. In fact, on top of the social media focus, the Elements series has introduced a batch editing feature or two, so you can embarrass those teenagers more, and faster.
Photoshop Elements
The big focus lately has been on designing the app (actually both of them) to do the heavy lifting for the user. Gone are the days when beginners had to spend an hour outlining the subject of their photo with the pen tool to select it properly. The app does that sort of thing for you.
They've also added a number of new guided edits. Basically, these are just wizards that take users through a number of steps and program features to help them get a pre-defined result. The news ones include:
- Turning a photo into text
- Effects collages
- Speed pan effects
- Creating your own digital frames
- Painting effects onto photos
Lastly, there's a feature to help users adjust the facial features of people in their photos. That teenager of yours in a foul mood? You can change that, at least in the photo. Now only their favorite band-related t-shirt can tell the world how they really feel.
Premiere Elements
Premiere Elements is also bringing more automation and automatic detection into the mix. First up is the fact that they added face detection to their pan, zoom, and trim effects, to make sure the faces stay in the picture.
For music, there's a new feature they're calling Remix, which will automatically remix a song down (or up) to the length of your video. I haven't had a chance to personally test this feature, but it is very interesting to me. I mean, an algorithm mixing instrumental music is one thing, but how would it handle vocals?
Okay, I'm actually really curious about that one.
Next, we have Haze Removal. It first introduced as its own effect in Photoshop Elements, and now you can do it with video. That's… all there is to it.
Lastly, there's now a feature to make it easier for people to make video collages. As it's something that would usually require a bunch of manual positioning, I kind of wish they'd put this into the regular version of Premiere.
Conclusion
These apps come with the usual hefty price tag, so they're best suited to someone who is doing this stuff a lot, like a hobbyist, or a particularly dedicated relative. That said, if that's you or your client, then this feels like a generally solid update to decent consumer software.
You should get lots of likes.
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Sunday, October 2, 2016
Teehee designs adjustable furniture that grows up as children do
The trend for designer children's furniture continues with this collection of customisable units by Dutch brand Teehee (+ slideshow). (more…)