Uber’s Head Of Design Steps Down

Andrew Crow, Uber’s head of design, has announced that he’s leaving the company. Since joining in 2014, he helped grow Uber’s design team from 30 to nearly 200 while leading “all aspects of design,” according to his LinkedIn, “including Product, Brand, Marketing, Content Strategy & Copywriting, and Design Research. “Before Uber, he was a global brand and design director at GE.Crow announced the news on Medium last week, saying he was leaving to spend more time with his family:

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Centriphone: A Skier Uses an iPhone and Sling to Film Dramatic ‎360° Footage of Himself While Skiing

Screenshot at Feb 06 22-50-10After two years of tinkering and experimenting Swiss freeskier Nicolas Vuignier just shared a video of what he calls a centriphone, a device that works like a sling to hurl his iPhone 6 through the air while he skis down a mountain. Played back in slow motion the footage is incredible as Vuignie

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FirstTouch, Inc.

Screenshot at Feb 03 10-03-26FirstTouch, Inc.は、ユーモアなスペシャリストが集まり、スマートフォンアプリなどソフトウエアの研究開発、テクノロジー・マーケティング・キカク演出などを行う総合デベロップメントカンパニーです。

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Taxi Fabric Fills Plain Cab Interiors with Vibrant Original Artworks

When thinking of decor inside an American taxicab, your imagination is probably limited to an LED payment screen blaring annoying ads and maybe a pine tree air freshener dangling from a rearview mirror. In India, a new firm is thinking a bit more creatively by helping cab drivers completely tran

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30 Free Smart PSDs to Help You Create Easy Text Effects

Traditionally, the Photoshop Style was the tool designers used to share their text effects, but these days the Smart PSD has become the new weapon of choice for sharing pre-made effects. Smart PSDs make use of Photoshop Smart Objects, which allow the user to edit the source of a specific layer in order to update […]

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Scaling a Design Team, Episode #3: Feat. Melissa Hajj, Design Manager at Facebook

Screenshot_9← To all episodes iTunes Link: https://itunes.apple.com/il/podcast/the-hacking-ui-podcast/id1078107474 Feed URL (for android devices and other apps): http://simplecast.com/podcasts/1625/rss Get the Hacking UI Podcasts delivered to you via email, and enjoy more great content and resources from us → Join our Facebook discussion group → The Hacking UI Podcast, Season 1 – Scaling a Design TeamHi, I’m David Tintner, front end developer lead at a scaling startup, and with me, both in the podcast and working at the same company, is Sagi Shrieber – Product Design Director.  We are both entrepreneurs, bloggers, productivity/time-hacker maniacs, and all around tech geeks. So you see – these are the topics that we discuss in the Hacking UI Podcast. If you’re into the same things we are, we would love for you to join us and listen in. We think you’ll find it as interesting and insightful as we do.In season 1, which we’ve called ‘Scaling a Design Team’, we meet with leaders from top notch

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