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A pernicious new form of redlining lurks in Facebook’s hidden algorithms, excluding African-Americans and other minorities.

Reflections of the artist and beloved ITP professor on making interactive mirrors in trash, plush balls and trolls.

A critical essay on today’s most hyped media sensation: Virtual Reality

My data knew before I did that the relationship was on the skids.

Written language evolved from purely practical functional uses into an expressive medium. Is there a similar future for code?

While pursuing his dream of a corporate-free, funkier, local Internet, the author learned some unexpected lessons.

Superfans, enabled by the Internet, are changing what we buy and who we are.

She meant to take a break from her job as a designer, but maternity leave turned into a hands-on UX design lab.

Until we honor and value the embodied knowledge that comes with time spent as a human, we will always fall short as designers.

PT Barnum was the world’s greatest salesman and purveyor of bunkum… until now!

A visual essay that reveals the power and beauty of a daily ritual.

Persistence of Vision: Vannevar Bush’s seminal essay from 1945 is still worth a serious read today.

One of the ADJACENT’s designers reads between the lines to find links accross and within the first issue’s articles.