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After 65 years, LA's most famous midcentury house hits the market \ stacker news

It's listed for $25m and has its own wikipedia page. It was made famous by this photo taken by Julius Shulman. [4 comments]

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Conspiratorial Design. Information design for the bigger picture

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Conspiratorial Design. Information design for the bigger picture

Carlo Bramanti finds the connections between design and conspiracy theory so compelling that he coined a term for the common ground that they share...

  Bringing two concepts we usually regard as antithetical, visual designer Carlo Bramanti examines how design and conspiracy theory intersect in their practices and output. Design is generally perceived as a discipline that makes the complex intelligible; it illustrates reliable facts and streamlines information. Conspiracy theories, on the other hand, stretch facts to their most grotesque limits; they create chaos and confusion. And yet, for Bramanti, both attempt to address the same human aspiration for meaning and order. Design (in particular information design) and conspiracy theory, he says, share a tendency to think in terms of large-scale systems. They both look for strong and seductive narratives that will reveal “the bigger picture”. Designers process vast amounts of information and synthesise them in an engaging way. To do so, they look for patterns and new connections, which makes them vulnerable to conspiracy. But while design strives to “raise awareness”, conspiracy theory talks about “awakening”. Bramanti finds the connections between design and conspiracy theory so compelling that he coined a term for the common ground that they share: Conspiratorial Design.   https://stacker.news/items/1293592

In the sea of sameness

In the sea of sameness

On authenticity

 Finding a soul in this world seems to be a rare quality these days, especially in software-internet-land. - Every app looks the same. - Every website looks the same. - Every process looks the same. The rise of Tailwind, design system templates, and other dev frameworks has made it easier than ever to achieve visually appealing designs, often without the need for a designer’s hands. Out-of-the-box components, elegant icons, and ready-to-apply CSS are now within reach for whoever desires. This abundance has made programming life easier while speeding up the design process, but it also appears to dull creative thinking. Alongside trends that come and go, sameness has become the default state. The spark of the past has faded in many aspects, far beyond the digital sphere: quirky tech brand logos have turned banal, social networks media wear the same interface, and web design is.. well, web design. https://stacker.news/items/1293588

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@deSign_r brings wisdom: "Locksmith stickers are annoying, but kind of genius". Authentic at its finest. Get inspired by its #designThinking: https://stacker.news/items/1292169/r/deSign_r

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The 9x Problem Nobody in AI Talks About

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UX Is Your Moat (And You’re Ignoring It)

Last week, Google released Nano Banana Pro, their latest image generator. The demos looked impressive. I opened Gemini to try it. Then I had a ques...

 In 2006, John Gournville published a paper in Harvard Business Review called “Eager Sellers and Stony Buyers” that should be required reading for every AI founder. His core finding: to get users to switch products, your new thing has to be *nine times better* than what they already use. Not twice as good. Not “demonstrably superior.” Nine times. Here’s why. Users overvalue what they already have by a factor of three—the familiarity, the muscle memory, the sense of control. And companies overvalue what they’re offering by a factor of three—because they built it, they know every feature, they see the potential. Three times three equals nine. This creates what Gournville called a “mismatch of nine to one, or 9x, between what innovators think consumers desire and what consumers really want.” AI companies act like their next model release will make users switch. They announce benchmark improvements like they’re declaring victory. “Our model is 12% better at coding tasks!” Cool. Is it nine times better? No? Then I’m staying where I am. https://stacker.news/items/1292172

Locksmith stickers are annoying, but kind of genius https://uxdesign.cc/locksmith-stickers-are-annoying-but-kind-of-genius-85690b7ae045  Locksmith stickers are annoying, illegal, and typographically messy. But by appearing where you least expect them — from letterboxes to lift ceilings — they are a masterclass in low-tech, persistent, and surprisingly effective guerrilla marketing. Archived at https://archive.is/cqmLI https://stacker.news/items/1292169

FranSans by Emily Sneddon

FranSans — Emily Sneddon

  Fran Sans is a display font in every sense of the term. It’s an interpretation of the destination displays found on some of the light rail vehicles that service the city of San Francisco. This balance of utility and charm seems to show up everywhere in San Francisco and its history. The Golden Gate’s “International Orange” started as nothing more than a rust-proof primer, yet is now the city’s defining colour. The Painted Ladies became multicoloured icons after the 1960s Colourist movement covered decades of grey paint. Even the steepness of the streets was once an oversight in city planning but has since been romanticised in films and on postcards. So perhaps it is unsurprising that I would find this same utility and charm in a place as small and functional as a train sign.     https://stacker.news/items/1292166

The Rosetta Stone of Design Engineering

The Rosetta Stone of Design Engineering

A deeper look at how design and engineering meet, overlap, and translate meaning — and why a shared language of making is the only way to build r...

 A deeper look at how design and engineering meet, overlap, and translate meaning — and why a shared language of making is the only way to build real shipping velocity. Before we dive in, you can watch the original talk during Granola's Design Engineering Night #4 that inspired this piece. It’s up on YouTube if you want the live version. ## The problem with two rails and one destination I’ve always imagined design and engineering as two rails on the same track. They run in parallel, supposedly toward the same product, but they rarely sit at the same spot. Design debt on one side, tech debt on the other, shifting priorities somewhere ahead, and the occasional giant “wait what are we building again?” boulder in the middle. https://stacker.news/items/1292158

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Inspiring work from @deSign_r: "The dichotomy of print versus the web". #Inspiration connects minds across centuries with #creative #design. https://stacker.news/items/1291242/r/deSign_r