Core77 Weekly Roundup (6-30-25 to 7-3-25)

Here’s what we looked at this week:

No, airlines are not installing these stand-up saddle-style seats. A design exercise has been turned into misinformation.

Obsessive UX design detail: Sugatsune’s Slide Hook is a bag hook that retracts.

The Great Fredini figures out how to centrifugally mold glass.

Solstice 2.0, a kinetic clock by Animaro Design Studio.

Mobile shopping cart cleaning solutions from different countries. Unsurprisingly, the Dutch one is the craziest.

Saudi Arabia’s Shebara Resort, a net-zero facility with stainless steel pod villas.

China moved an entire historical building complex using walking robots.

When EDC objects are actually designed by industrial designers.

The Acemate is a smart design for a robotic tennis partner.

The Nuki, a popular European smart lock, comes to America.

The Float Buddy, an emergency inflatable buoy for smartphones.

Industrial design firm Intenxiv created this Spinamic, a revolutionary scoliosis correction device.

Design lessons: How exploiting three materials made greenhouses affordable.

The ChompSaw: A benchtop power tool that’s safe for kids to use.

Furniture design case study: Teknion on making the main conference table for the G7 Summit.