Steve Clayton talks about the drive at Microsoft to embrace what he calls ‘natural user interface’.

via Steve Clayton: How To Design Technology So It Becomes Natural [Video] – PSFK.

Step aside, DNA—new synthetic compounds called XNAs can also store and copy genetic information, a new study says.

via Synthetic DNA Created, Evolves on Its Own.

I wasn’t always the type to design my own envelopes, sew my own skirts, and hold an annual craft day for friends. Until a few years ago, I equated creativity with Charles and Ray Eames or Martha Stewart, thinking they surely had been born with some sort of mutated gene equivalent to the ones that give someone red hair or small feet. I wanted that gene, but I never imagined I could have it.

via How I Learned to Be Creative – Lifestyle – GOOD.

To casual observers, Japan’s creative and technological might is a decisively modern development. Rooted in the rebuilding efforts that followed World War II, it spawned fuel-efficient cars, manga, and electronics and robots in spades.  {EAV:9223452202541b70}

via How Japan Mined Its History To Fuel The Innovation Of Today | Co. Design.

Imagine it’s 1997 and you’re sitting in a small room in Los Gatos, California. You’ve decided that you are going to get into the movie rental business. That’s right, you want to dethrone a huge entrenched competitor that has been dominating the industry for years, Blockbuster. How would you design the next big idea to disrupt the industry?

via Want To Upend An Entire Industry? Change Its Revenue Stream | Co. Design.