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Coming up with an idea is easy. Coming up with the right one takes work. With design thinking, throwing out what you think you know and starting from scratch opens up all kinds of possibilities.

PowerPoint is awesome, but here's the truth: some of the default features of PowerPoint can lead you down the path of creating horrible PowerPoint slides

In this list we're sharing some of our favorite websites that offer free resources for presentation design such as templates, icons, images, fonts and more.

Free pattern backgrounds that you can create yourself in PowerPoint. Use geometric pattern background and abstract pattern backgrounds for amazing designs!

Titled after the portuguese word for feather, the ‘PLUMA’ track bike lives up to its namesake with a lightweight body and elegant shape. designed by Nuno Teixeira industrial design, the ‘PLUMA’ concept was dreamt up back in 2010, and after one year in production the first prototype is ready to hit the track. With a carbon sandwich and AIREX R63.80 PCV foam frame, the pluma bike sports a curvy physique to help air flow along the bike’s body.

The streamlined bicycle aims to be feather soft as well as feather light, reducing the number of exposed moving parts and tubes to prevent injury to the rider in case of a fall. with a PRO track carbon disk rear wheel to minimize drag, and a PRO 5 spoke carbon track wheel at the front, the curvy ride carries no unnecessary weight. like the majority of professional velodrome track bikes, PLUMA is a fixed-gear model, and comes without breaks. Nuno Teixeira industrial design’s elegant bicycle has been taken from render to reality by constellation composite, specialists in turning concept transport designs into working physical pieces....

Let's call this call this curator friend Cynthia. Cynthia wrote back, “Two other curators worked with me on this (and may join us!), so I can’t take full credit.” She asked that I instead reference her with the significantly less exciting descriptor, “one of the curators of this exhibition." She was understandably hesitant to get all the credit and wanted to make clear that there were other people involved with the exhibition. While accurate, the new version was far less descriptive and complimentary than what I’d suggested.

Feel familiar? The balancing act women navigate surrounding self promotion can be exhausting.

Over the last 5 years, the popularity of infographics in marketing has continued to climb. Thinking of creating one? Read these helpful tips

Découvrez les tendances à suivre pour réussir vos visuels en ligne en 2017

À quoi ressemblera le travail demain ? C'est la question que s'est posée la Biennale internationale du design de Saint-Étienne, qui se déroule du 9 mars au 9 avril, en choisissant pour thème "Working promesse : les mutations du travail".

Scroll triggered animations and cinemagraphs
Elements that animate as you scroll down aren’t exactly new. But instead of just a flashy gimmick (hey, I’m an animation, look at me!), they’ve become a key element for storytelling. Well done, every animation we discover as we scroll down the page should tell a part of our story. Apple led the way with its amazing Mac Pro site.

If all this sound to hard to implement, just check Spark — the Adobe visual storytelling tool, free and easy enough for everyone to use. You can build some gorgeous pages and graphics, at the same time you’re telling your story.
But that’s not all about animations. You know the GIF has also returned to our screens, thanks to the meme craze. But now, GIFs come in a new form: the cinemagraph.

Cinemagraphs are still images where a small part has a repeating movement, creating an animated loop. The human eye is immediately dragged to the contrasting, moving part, as the background stays still....

Si votre entreprise communique aussi à l’international, sachez qu’il ne suffit pas de changer la langue du texte pour que votre design ait autant de succès partout dans le monde. Voici quelques pistes pour savoir ce qui plaît en dehors de l’Hexagone.

Currently, dramatic changes take place in terms of rapidly emerging modes of communication, technologies, increased cultural diversity, evolving workplaces cultures, new challenges for equitable education and the varying and changing identities of students everywhere. Bearing this in mind, this article draws on a design-based research study to argue of the need for museums to respond to global trends and fulfill their social and educational imperatives by investigating the potential of a particular pedagogical framework that is grounded in culturally inclusive pedagogical practices and characteristics of ubiquitous learning.

Pour devenir un bon designer, il ne suffit pas de se former et d’utiliser des outils ou des méthodes. Il faut adopter les attitudes du design thinking.

Until now, the risk of slightly stained teeth has been just a small price to pay for the satisfaction and energy boost that coffee brings. However, London-based startup CLR CFF claim to have created the world’s first ‘colorless coffee’—the pair of words itself almost an oxymoron. brewed with high quality arabica coffee beans and pure water, the disconcerting drink promises a ‘fresh, aromatic taste and flavor’ that does not require sugar or milk.

Made with a ‘never before used’ coffee brewing method, the brew comes without the dark brown color of the coffee as we know it , and consequently does not yellow your tooth enamel.

CLR CFF promises that the energy-boosting beverage does not contain preservatives, artificial flavors, stabilizers, sugar or any other sweeteners. the startup—founded by slovakian brothers david and adam nagy—came about after the pair struggled with teeth stains brought about by a caffeine-infused lifestyle. After finding nothing on the market that filled the gap left by coffee without staining their teeth, the duo set out to create a drink brewed with the same arabica beans, that wouldn’t have such a negative effect on their smiles..

There will always be times in the day when you are in desperate need of a caffeine boost, yet no where near the closest café. and for these times, mokase have comprised the answer to your caffeine-deprived prayers, in the shape of a phone case that converts your smartphone into an on-the-go espresso maker. using a simple system of a disposable insert which houses the coffee, and an app that heats it up on demand, the mokase pours out an espresso made by your smartphone.

On setting out to develop a product to brew coffee whilst out and about, Luigi Carfora and clemente biondo of ‘smart k’ had the idea of incorporating it into a gadget already carried around every day—the smartphone. the duo successfully designed a case that measures less than 1cm in thickness,  is completely waterproof and insulates the coffee when brewed. through a side slit in the mokase, the ‘mokaromi’ cartridge is inserted. the coffee—sealed within a vacuum on the inside of the cartridge—is freed when inserted into the phone, as the ‘spout’ breaks the membrane of the vacuum allowing the drink to exit....

• A new layout: In addition to a complete overhaul of the visual elements of the page, we took a look at the sections on the page and evaluated the importance of each. 
• Icons: The icons on our different plans help page visitors quickly understand who each plan is made for, while also serving to “jazz up” (I know, that phrase is a design no-no) an otherwise text-centric section of the page. 
• A testimonial carousel: We knew we greatly valued the effect of social proof, so we decided to double down on testimonials by creating a carousel of them on this page.
• Bullet-point features: Putting together a list of our features for unacquainted potential customers makes it easy for them to see Wishpond’s benefits with only as much copy as we need.

Découvrez les tendances à suivre pour réussir vos visuels en ligne en 2017

An artist in California is replacing garish billboard ads with nature photos that blend almost perfectly into the surrounding landscapes—because they show the landscapes themselves.

Jennifer Bolande’s “Visible Distance/Second Sight” is gracing roadside scenes along Gene Autry Trail and Vista Chino in Palm Springs, California. When a viewer sees the outdoor posters from the right perspective, the large-scale images of the mountains in the distance align with the actual ranges, creating a striking juxtaposition of the virtual image and the real one.

Part of a broader “Desert X” exhibition in the area, it’s meant to redirect attention from the advertisement to the natural world depicted in it. It’s been done before, to a degree. As we pointed out in 2015, artist Brian Kane’s work in Massachusetts used trees and stars to similar effect....

There are many new web tools and services for designers and developers launched every month, but how do you know which are the most useful? Which offers the best solution for a project? And which offers the most value for money?

We’ve managed to collect a mix of premium web tools and services covering many areas of web design, that are worth trying out. Take your time, go through the collection, and find the tool that best suits you. Here they are....