From Chalkboards to Smartphones

Ever wish you had a set of CliffsNotes for design? Now, thanks to online education company Open Culture, you do. This series of short videos covers the basics of six different major schools of design.

Fresh powder beckoned 16 expert skiers and snowboarders into the backcountry. Then the snow gave way.

One of the biggest problems in education is motivation. The newly updated Padagogy Wheel tries to figure out how to solve that problem.

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"Even when you don't pick up on a syntactic error your brain is still picking up on it," Batterink said. "There is a brain mechanism recognizing it and reacting to it, processing it unconsciously so you understand it properly."

Time travel back to 1950 with a Best Buy circular and you basically blow minds with every page. Flatscreen TVs? Crazy. Computers? Crazy. Smartphones? Double crazy.

Turns out something as simple as tweaking the color of a button changes user behavior or endears people to your product. Buffer's Leo Widrich explains...

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Poet W. H. Auden was a professor at the University of Michigan during the 1941-42 academic year, teaching 'Fate and the Individual in European Litera

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Amazon Storyteller is a new application from Amazon Studios that lets you turn a movie script into a storyboard. You choose the backgrounds, characters, and props to visually tell a story. A successful storyboard can tell the full story of a script, or capture its essence in short form, like a trailer. Either approach can be a great way to build an audience for your story and see how people respond to it.

While there are hundreds of tools and devices available, we have found 10 creative ways to use Google tools and services to help improve learning.

The rise of the pixel in cinema may feel like a recent development, but this year actually marks its fortieth anniversary.

There's a word for that odd quirk of Apple iPads that hold on to design components of old keyboards

How do you make lasagna? Even though it’s not that complex of a dish, to spell out the methodology--the specific ingredients and the many small, easy steps of prep work--it would take me half a page of type or more.But for designer/illustrator...

Reddit's users launched a new subreddit Findbostonbombers where hundreds of amateur sleuths are crowdsourcing clues and suspects in the Boston terrori...

Editor’s NoteThis post is part of Co.Exist’s Futurist Forum, a series of articles by some of the world’s leading futurists about what the world will look like in the near and distant future, and how you can improve how you navigate future scenarios...