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Flic, celebrated its 10th anniversary as a company specializing in smart home button controllers by making some updates to its Flic Hub. These updates give users a lot more freedom to program their smart hubs. The updates to Flic include adding Matter to its smart home standard and adding more scripting capabilities. The update lets […]
An iPhone 14 Pro featuring Apple’s Bongo design was recently discovered. A newly-discovered iPhone 14 Pro prototype features one of the earliest known incarnations of Apple’s scrapped haptic button project. Back in July of 2024, AppleInsider published exclusive imagery of a prototype iPhone 15 Pro Max equipped with Apple’s long-rumored haptic buttons. Developed under the […]
In recent years, a surprising shift has occurred in the world of technology design. Major companies are reintroducing physical buttons to their products. This trend marks a significant departure from the touchscreen-dominated era of the past decade. Volkswagen recently announced plans to bring back physical buttons on their steering wheels. The decision came after customers […]
Panic buttons for poll workers, special weapons teams deployed on rooftops, and hundreds of National Guard personnel on standby. The 2024 U.S. presidential campaign has been a particularly volatile one, and security for Election Day on Tuesday is being ramped up to unprecedented levels given concerns over possible civil unrest, election chicanery, or violence against […]
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “Showing an image of four competing smartphones of the day, Jobs said, ‘What’s wrong with their user interfaces? Well, the problem with them is really sort of in the bottom 40 [percent] there. …They all have these keyboards that are there whether you need them or […]
Are we leaving physical buttons behind or will they be part of our future? The camera control button is the newest addition to the iPhone 16. Image from — https://www.macrumors.com/2024/09/09/iphone-16-camera-control-button/ Physical buttons were not a part of my user experience education. All interfaces that I and my classmates designed were assumed to be a part […]