Tag: Design

Here's what we looked at this week:Production methods: Pultrusion, for producing lonnnng (up to 10km!) carbon fiber profiles. A stunning spectacle: The world's largest drone display. This is surely how we'll be advertised to in the future.

This project, "Bringing Interactive Unity to All Starbucks In-Store Connected Devices," is by design consultancy Tactile. The firm straightened out the coffee chain's behind-the-counter systems by tackling the work in five phases.Starbucks Professional Design SystemAt the heart of the Starbucks café experience are their employees–an essential factor in delivering the perfect treat to customers. No minor feat, given the wide array of choices available. So, to help streamline the beverage-building process, Starbucks asked Tactile to craft a common UX strategy and UI design system for all their connected behind-the-counter equipment, now and into the future.Tactile's hands-on experience and

These photographs are by Felix Alejandro Hernandez. The thing is, Hernandez isn't just a photographer, but an expert modelmaker and digital artist.

More multi-screen madness. This TriCreate object consists of three 15.6", 1080p screens, an internal battery and a built-in stand. It folds flat into a briefcase form factor for easy transport, and weighs 3kg (6.6 lbs). It works with both Macs and PCs.

UK-based Costa Coffee has rolled out this elaborate robotic coffee station. The company says their completely automated, AI-powered station is "capable of matching or exceeding human barista quality," and is targeting locations where a 24-hour unattended small-footprint coffee shop are desirable.The self-cleaning machine can operate for "up to 7 days" without human intervention. It's already started popping up at U

Flowing with Blessings is a nonprofit that provides free, hot showers to Atlanta's unhoused population. Founder Nicky Crawford aims to restore hygiene, dignity and hope to the disadvantaged with his mobile shower units.Crawford saw a need to expand into mobile laundry services. To design and build his Mobile Laundry Bus, Crawford collaborated with the Industrial Design department at Georgia Tech. ID juniors and seniors Zaria Hardnett, David Hounyo, Lily Liang, Claudia Ross, and Anushka Vaidya worked on the proj

We really are hurtling into the future here, folks.So this company Serve Robotics makes these sidewalk delivery robots. A restaurant worker loads them, then the autonomous 'bot drives itself over to your building. While the 'bots have a range of up to 25 miles, they're not that fast—they top out around 6 MPH—so most of the deliveries they're used for are within a 2-mile radius.

As a pure object, I'm really impressed with the form of this Pathfinder modular mouse, by startup Orbital Works. Intended to provide the best possible UX for gamers, it's been designed with fanaticism.Developed from hundreds of hand scans and match analyses, Pathfinder fits your palm like a second skin and can be enh

It's a small detail, but I suspect it will go a long way. French cookware company Staub has collaborated with British hardware manufacturer Buster + Punch, adding the latter's hardware to the former's cookware. This has yielded two sizes of cast-iron cocotte and one cast-iron frying pan with these attractive knurled handles, available in brass or steel:

Ikea's new, improved anchor and lock system should give parents some extra peace of mind. Once installed, it allows every drawer in a chest of drawers to be open, and the unit will not tip. The improved design adds an interior metal strip that runs the entire height of the cabinet, and is locked to the wall by a beefier metal L-bracket.You can see how it's installed, and how it works, in the video below:Ikea is incorporating the system into