Relying on one voice assistant to rule them all might be expecting too much — To borrow from J.R.R. Tolkien, voice assistants like Siri, Alexa, Cortana, and Google all aspire to be a little bit like Sauron from Lord of the Rings. If you distill all of their differing methodologies down, they ultimately come down to this: One ring (or, if you will, one A.I.)…

Huge art directors Jae Who and John Spinnenweber bill their new project as a “shotgun blast to society.”

How the iPhone popularized steampunk… and how the iPhone killed it off — You can make the argument—and I have—that we’re living in the design era of the cyberpunk. In Silicon Valley, Facebook, Google, Apple, and Microsoft are all devoted to perfecting concepts first popularized in science-fiction novels, ranging from virtual reality to virtual assistants. Major advances in A.I. and bio-modification are made…

Designing solutions for people with disabilities offers a peephole into the future — “It’s just the right thing to do.” Very few people think that those of us who are blind should be exiled from the web altogether, or that people with hearing loss shouldn’t have iPhones. That’s as it should be. But all too often, the importance of accessibility — the catch-all…

We can communicate across devices, platforms, and mediums at practically the speed of light. Shouldn’t our punctuation marks—not just emoji—evolve to express the nuanced emotions we feel?

Technology isn’t standing in the way of our creativity; we are.

Clive Thompson, the author of the new book Coders, pulls back the curtain on a group of influential computer programmers.

When augmented reality goes mainstream, you’re most likely to experience it through a product you already own — headphones.

The introverted Pentagram partner talks about finding inspiration, embracing structure, and the importance of listening.