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Circular interfaces keep showing up in design. Thermostats, smart speakers, automotive dials, wearable-inspired dashboards, the circle feels friendly and “instrument-like” in a way that rectangles don’t, especially when the goal is a glanceable, ambient piece …

Every winter, Minneapolis does something the rest of the country quietly envies. Instead of hibernating indoors until spring shows up, the city drags its creativity out onto the frozen surface of Lake Harriet and builds …

Working on the move means accepting a certain amount of small friction. You can have a great laptop and still spend the first five minutes of a café session digging through a bag for a …

Let’s be honest, smartphones have grown quite big in size from their very early designs. A 6.5-inch brick is considered standard these days, as flagships can even outgrow that size to give users maximum display …

Spring cleaning has a way of exposing how tired a room can feel. Swapping out a duvet cover or rearranging furniture only goes so far. What actually shifts a space is the accumulation of small, …

Reading seriously on a tablet means fighting the device as much as the text. Notifications creep in, brightness is calibrated for apps rather than paper, and the browser is always one tap away. E-ink devices …

Home wellness has expanded well beyond foam rollers and cold showers. Heat therapy has become one of the more serious recovery habits people are building into their routines, but the hardware has always been the …

The average laptop screen sits somewhere between 13 and 15.6 inches, which sounds perfectly reasonable until you start juggling four browser tabs, a Figma file, a Slack thread, and a terminal window at the same …

There’s a particular kind of object that design-minded people notice when they walk into a room. Not the artwork on the wall or the fancy ergonomic chair. It’s the small, considered thing sitting on a …

Last year I put together a list of products everyone absolutely needed to own in 2025. It included basic stuff, AirTags, GaN chargers, and even some slightly complex gadgets like NAS devices to help you …