FEATURE
7 designers on their hopes for the new year
Designers are in the business of creating a future that looks different than the present. They don’t predict so much as manifest—through thinking and creating. Now that a new year has started, Fast Company decided to ask: What do designers want to see happen in 2023? This article has their answers, full of hope (and yes, some healthy skepticism) for the year ahead.
fastcompany.com
From 7-Eleven to Canada Goose, stores are going to get more awesome in 2023
Interesting read about how stores will evolve in 2023 to keep customers coming back...
Yes, it's not your parents' 7-Eleven
fastcompany.com
CREATIVITY
What the Hobbies of Geniuses Tell Us About the Relationship Between Leisure and Great Ideas
According to many of these geniuses themselves, their pastimes weren't just stress relief or meaningless trivia. Some of the world's most impressive intellects insist that their hobbies were an essential part of their creative process.
LEGO anyone?
inc.com
EMPATHY
Emotional AI Is No Substitute for Empathy
Artificial intelligence will try—and fail—to grasp the subtleties of human expression.
The problem is that the majority of emotional AI is based on flawed science. Emotional AI algorithms, even when trained on large and diverse data sets, reduce facial and tonal expressions to an emotion without considering the social and cultural context of the person and the situation.
wired.com
VISUAL
Charting the Relationship Between Wealth and Happiness, by Country
Being Designerly has covered some of the top visualizations of 2022, but this one from September seems appropriate as we begin 2023...
visualcapitalist.com
UX
The State Of Usability In 2023
Vitaly Friedman on how people behave on the web in 2023. Some observations from real usability testing on what people do and what they don’t do on the web. From disabled copy-paste to magic link sign-in.
smashingmagazine.com
NNG's Top 10 UX Articles of 2022
Nielsen Norman Group's top 10 user-experience articles published in 2022 that were read the most. Also look at previous articles that were popular in 2022 as well as top videos... (AI generated image)
nngroup.com
