Humane and Rabbit’s buggy new AI devices are merely the newest examples of an enduring trend. Plus: requiem for the home button. Two gadgets in technology’s hottest new category have shipped. They arrive with great expectations, in part because their makers have promoted them with Barnumesque aplomb. But both are missing basic functionality. Worse,...

In this rare and extended Q&A, Netflix VP of design Steve Johnson reveals how the streaming service designs its system, and what he thinks about gaming, the Vision Pro, and generative AI. What was the world like before Netflix? Increasingly, we don’t really remember. Now with 260 million subscribers around the world, the original streaming entertainment...

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American Girl’s brand refresh is happening at the perfect time: when Millenial parents who grew up with the dolls are buying toys for their own kids. The moment Pentagram partner Emily Oberman’s team got the call that they’d be working on a brand refresh for American Girl, she says “a primal scream went through the office.”The designers, who were part...

In their new book, professors Christopher Wong Michaelson and Jennifer Tosti-Kharas explore what the future of meaningful work looks like. Visitors to Walt Disney World cannot help but be confronted with founder and visionary Walt Disney’s obsession with the future. Evidence is all over the park, from Tomorrowland in the Magic Kingdom to the geodesic...

Music industry veteran Zane Lowe on discovering his deeper purpose with musicians, the art of balancing music and business, and overcoming fear in the creative process. In the movie Maestro, American conductor Leonard Bernstein’s wife, actress Felicia, says to him: “If summer doesn’t sing in you, then nothing sings in you. And, if nothing sings...