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Genessa Krasnow

Geek of the Week: Ex-Microsoft futurist Genessa Krasnow is a cultural designer and activist with a new game

Genessa Krasnow spent several years at Microsoft as a creative strategist, building prototypes to illustrate the future of technology. Focused… Read More

Apple Chicago

Apple shows off its ‘newest and most ambitious store’ on Chicago’s riverfront

Apple Michigan Avenue, a first in the tech giant’s reimagining of its premiere store locations, opens on Friday along Chicago’s… Read More

New images show design for Space Needle’s glass restaurant floor in remodel 500 feet above ground

Looking down is part of the point of going up in Seattle’s Space Needle. For visitors to the landmark’s restaurant… Read More

Amazon Echo

Hey, Odessa, does the new Amazon Echo look a bit like that one from ‘Saturday Night Live’?

The revamped Echo from Amazon, unveiled Wednesday in Seattle, comes with improved sound, a lower price and a new design.… Read More

Snoqualmie Falls beer

No beer goggles required: Brewer turns to AR tech in label to set itself apart in crowded market

Take a look at the selections in the beer aisle at your local grocery store, and you’re sure to notice… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: DevOpsDays Seattle; Cannabis Tech Meetup; and more

DevOpsDays is returning to Seattle for another round of talks and discussion on software development, IT infrastructure and everything in… Read More

How virtual reality is shaping the new home of Washington state’s oldest museum

A key concept for the new Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture at the University of Washington, currently under construction… Read More

Microsoft design guru explains why originality is ‘vastly overrated’

In the tech community, there are countless entrepreneurs who think they have an idea that’s so original, it’s bound to… Read More

Video: How science is reshaping our cities and workplaces

Design is integral to how we move through the world — how we experience and understand the places where we… Read More

The case for art in tech: Kleiner Perkins’ John Maeda on ‘breaking free from the tree’

Seattle native John Maeda has a unique perspective on the technology industry, as an engineer and designer who was an MIT… Read More

Hate Uber’s new logo? Join the crowd, as designers take their own shot at app icon

Forget backseat drivers, since unveiling its rebranded look this week, Uber is hearing it from backseat designers who think the… Read More

Uber unveils new app icon, logo and more in big rebranding

You might need a minute before you request your next Uber to locate and or recognize the app icon on… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Stylyze is a virtual interior designer that helps with home decor shopping

When people starting thinking about home decor, the web tends to be their first stop. Between retail sites, online magazines, and blogs, there are… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Code Fellows co-founder heads up on-demand graphic design shop Lightboard

Brad Bouse already helped fix an inefficiency in the developer market when he co-founded the software development bootcamp Code Fellows. Now… Read More

Radical advice for tech companies: Put the designer in charge

Editor’s note: This post is an excerpt from the book Making Things Special: Tech Leadership from the Trenches A note:… Read More

Facebook shakes up the ‘About’ page, changing how it displays personal information

Facebook is known for switching up the design of its users’ profiles without notice, and today is no different: some… Read More

‘Sensor Salon’ brings LCD screens, 3D-printed objects and sensors to fingernails

The maker movement is coming to the nail salon. That’s the vision of students from the Art Center College of Design… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: Amazon music, Lively shutdown, and the new world of tech design

We’ve got a lot to discuss on this week’s GeekWire radio show, starting with our thoughts on Amazon’s new Prime Music… Read More

How to braid your time: Teamwork for creative minds

[Editor’s Note: Author and teacher Jon Bell is a designer in Twitter’s Seattle office and a speaker at the upcoming HIVE technology design conference.] While it’s true that creativity… Read More

Seattle skyline and Rainier at sunset

The Amazon model: 4 reasons your company should move to the heart of the city

The Weyerhauser Corporate Headquarters in Federal Way has earned awards for its architecture, interior design and energy conservation. It’s a… Read More

Iterating in public: 4 steps for success in the brave new world of tech design

[Editor’s Note: Guest commentator David Lifson of General Assembly is one of the speakers at the upcoming HIVE technology design conference, June 20… Read More

Geek of the Week: Lytro Illum lead designer Markus Wierzoch, Artefact design director

Camera technology company Lytro is getting lots of headlines this week for its second-generation light field camera, called the Illum — a DSLR-style… Read More

Yves Behar, CEO of fuse project

Jawbone exec: Startups need designers, not just engineers

SAN FRANCISCO–While startups are often on the lookout for new engineering talent, renowned hardware designer Yves Behar said that they… Read More

Twitter’s new web site design: Love it, or hate it?

For users of Twitter’s web interface, it’s a brand new day, design-wise. The social network is in the process of… Read More

Advice from a former Apple director who coined the term ‘user experience’

Having worked on Apple’s User Interface Technologies and introducing the term “user experience” to company execs in the early 90s, Mitch… Read More

How this online portfolio service pivoted to donate money to designers in need

In 2011, husband-and-wife duo Keith and Jana Harper — both Seattleites — developed Well Crafted, a customizable online portfolio where designers… Read More

How this design geek’s toilet analogy fell flat in a 2003 pitch to Bill Gates

We love hearing old stories about how Bill Gates operated at Microsoft, in part because the software titan has reshaped… Read More

Comedy: When developers and designers try to communicate

Do you see yourself in this video? The recent HIVE 2011 design conference in Redmond opened with an exclusive skit… Read More

First-time conference aims to bridge tech and design in Seattle region

A grassroots initiative to improve the connections among technology companies, user-experience specialists and designers in the Seattle region has spawned… Read More

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