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British designer Lee Broom has marked his Mexico City art week debut with over 50 objects displayed throughout the 20th-century mansion showroom of local lighting company Diez Company. Read more

New York studio Zomuzi has completed a showroom for lighting brand Gantri in San Fransciso that brings together influences from the building’s 1930s origins and the city’s counter-cultural history. Read more

Dutch designer Sabine Marcelis has created Roll, a rug with a wood-and-resin arm that transforms the product into a sofa, which she is debuting at a modernist house during Mexico City art week. Read more

In the time it takes to read this sentence, a user has already formed a lasting judgment about your website. The 5-second test, where a user sees a page for just five seconds before answering core questions, reveals a brutal truth: design is not about exploration; it’s about instant comprehension. This isn’t about aesthetics; it’s about cognitive …

In an age of sterile, flat glass interfaces, the physical control, a knob, a switch, a button, has become an artifact of profound interaction design. Its rarity has amplified its power. A well-designed physical control communicates through a silent, tactile language. It tells the user what it is, what it does, and how to use …

For decades, sustainable design has been an exercise in minimization: less energy, less waste, less damage. The goal has been to be “less bad.” But in an era of climate and biodiversity crisis, doing less harm is no longer enough. The next paradigm is Regenerative Design, architecture conceived not as an extractive endpoint, but as a …

UX and UI design have evolved into one of the most flexible and in-demand career paths in tech. Designers today are no longer limited to traditional office roles. Many professionals choose between working in-house for a company or offering their skills as freelancers. While both options can be rewarding, compensation structures, stability, and long-term earning …

A dark palette of concrete, metal and stone references the craggy surface of a lava field surrounding Swan Nest, a summerhouse by local studio Yrki Arkitektar overlooking one of Iceland‘s most active volcanoes. Read more

From an art nouveau column in Aberdeen to a slate-clad vent that blends into the Snowdonia landscape, authors Lucy Lavers, Judy Ovens and Suzanna Prizeman have selected 10 unique ventilation shafts from their book Adventurous Vents. Read more

Folded paper lights and a chair woven from a single piece of rope are among the projects from emerging Swedish designers that are on show as part of the main exhibition at Stockholm Creative Edition this week. Read more