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Thunkable turns passive consumers into proactive app developers

Design News > Information Design / Interaction Design

The tech lets people with no coding experience create apps, democratising an otherwise elite space. >

18 Jan 19
Lucas De Man uses art to help bring more social cohesion to our cities

Design Frontiers > Creative Economy / Design Activism / Film & Animation / Interaction Design

His latest project called EYE humanises the anonymous city by giving it eyes and offering visitors new perspectives. >

14 Nov 18
Eric Quint on 3M's design-centered mission

Design News > Design Thinking / Industrial Design / Interaction Design / Product Design / Urban & Landscape Design

“We are part of an ecosystem, uniting purpose with partnership, that creates meaningful innovations.” >

27 Sep 18
The Human Utility: How a Twitter discussion started a movement

Design News > Information Design / Interaction Design

What started out as a Twitter discussion soon became a way to address the water affordability and access issue in the United States. >

26 Sep 18
Woebot: A smart, accessible mental healthcare solution

Design News > Design Activism / Interaction Design

Created by a group of Stanford psychologists, WoeBot is used in over 120 countries and has generated over 2 million messages since its launch. >

12 Sep 18
Designer Roba Mostafa on creating a market for interactive media in Egypt

Video Interviews > African Design / Interaction Design

“I believe that interactive media would become a fundamental medium used in the future. It makes the science fiction of yesterday the possibility of today” >

4 Sep 18
Zach Lieberman on using human gestures to bring his work to life

Talks > Art & Photography / Information Design / Interaction Design

The coder and artist speaks on his collaboration with Design Indaba and projects that have stayed close to him. >

27 Aug 18
Look Up is an app designed to stop New Yorkers staring at the mobile phones

Design News > African Design / Interaction Design

Socially-focussed artist, designer and 2017 Design Indaba speaker, Ekene Ijeoma, has found a way to humanise intangible data to trigger empathy and compassion. >

8 Jun 18
Could silk be used to weave your donor heart?

Design News > Design Thinking / Interaction Design

Researcher and designer, Veronica Ranner, takes on organ crafting while cautiously questioning its ethics. >

8 Jun 18
A Digital Drum is bringing computer skills to the youth in rural Uganda

Design Frontiers > African Design / Design Activism / Interaction Design / Product Design

Design without Borders has developed a way to bridge the information gap between urban and rural youth of Uganda. >

15 May 18
George Gibbens is using design to tackle South Africa's social problems

Design News > Design Thinking / Industrial Design / Interaction Design / Product Design

The industrial designer has designed a VR device to help the visually impaired, a portable machine to fight shack fires and more. >

26 Apr 18
Feel people smile with Simon Dogger’s handheld device for the visually impaired

Design Frontiers > Interaction Design

“Being able to understand other people is about the quality of dialogue which is actually about the quality of life.” >

23 Apr 18
Vukuzenzele is a digital puzzle game helping to redesign informal settlements

Design News > African Design / Interaction Design

The game uses the concept of re-blocking to reimagine the layout of an informal settlement in order to create better access to basic services. >

17 Apr 18
Ekene Ijeoma deconstructs the US national anthem as a comment on mass imprisonment

Design News > Design Activism / Interaction Design / Music & Sound Design

In Deconstructed Anthems, he built a software that removes notes from the US national anthem at the same rate Americans have been imprisoned. >

16 Apr 18
Designer Ying Gao uses fingerprint recognition to identify strangers

Design Frontiers > Fashion & Jewellery Design / Interaction Design

These ‘smart’ garments form part of her Possible Tomorrows project. >

10 Apr 18
Code artist Zach Lieberman launches Weird Type in collaboration with Design Indaba

Design News > Creative Economy / Interaction Design

“How does typography change when it is spatial, when we can move around it and it exists in 3D space?” >

12 Mar 18
Here are some highlights from Design Indaba 2018!

Design Frontiers > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Art & Photography / Craft / Creative Economy / Design Activism / Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Film & Animation / Food Design / Graphic Design & Illustration / Industrial Design / Information Design / Interaction Design / Music & Sound Design / Product Design / Urban & Landscape Design

This year's Design Indaba was a multi-sensory event that brought together creatives from all over the world. >

7 Mar 18
Hyphen Labs is using VR to create safe spaces for women of colour

Design News > Design Thinking / Interaction Design

This VR project began when Ashley Baccus-Clark realised that there is no sunscreen that caters to her skin tone. >

28 Feb 18
Zach Lieberman combines fine art and code to create futuristic realities

Design News > Interaction Design

The Design Indaba 2018 speaker is at the forefront of art and technology. >

19 Feb 18
Set designer Es Devlin will take to the stage at Design Indaba 2018

Design News > Interaction Design / Music & Sound Design

Her set designs lifted audiences into new ways of experiencing musicians like Adele, Beyonce, U2 and Kanye West on tour. >

2 Feb 18
Simon Dogger

Emotion Whisperer. >

24 Jan 18
Tyler Yeo

The creative hopes to create a platform that helps people do what they love. >

18 Jan 18
Moonlight Invasions

Flee from the real world and plunge into the magic of mystery. >

16 Jan 18
Mark Kamau

Afro-centric UX Designer. >

10 Jan 18

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