Dual-Screen Cyberdeck: Sleek Design, Ultimate Functionality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cigAxzQGeLg  A dual-screen cyberdeck built around a Raspberry Pi 5. It's fully 3D printable and open source. This video show you the design and build process then showcase it's features with a custom ttkbootstrap GUI and demo I2C sensor experiment. Documentation: https://github.com/sector07-dev/RPI_DEV https://stacker.news/items/1066636

Dual-Screen Cyberdeck: Sleek Design, Ultimate Functionality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cigAxzQGeLg a dual-screen cyberdeck built around a Raspberry Pi 5. It's fully 3D printable and open source. This video show you the design and build process then showcase it's features with a custom ttkbootstrap GUI and demo I2C sensor experiment. Documentation: https://github.com/sector07-dev/RPI_DEV https://stacker.news/items/1066636

Writing a good design document https://grantslatton.com/how-to-design-document  **Definition** A design document is a technical report that outlines the implementation strategy of a system in the context of trade-offs and constraints. **Goal** Think of a design document like a proof in mathematics. The goal of a proof is to convince the reader that the theorem is true. The goal of a design document is to convince the reader the design is optimal given the situation. The most important person to convince is the author. The act of writing a design document helps to add rigor to what are otherwise vague intuitions. Writing reveals how sloppy your thinking was (and later, code will show how sloppy your writing was). https://stacker.news/items/1066621

Art vs Design – A Timeless Debate https://www.toptal.com/designers/creative-direction/art-vs-design  Vermeer likely used an advanced, and still unknown, form of camera obscura to create his masterpieces. This is a contentious theory, but there is ample evidence from multiple sources to support such a claim. How is it relevant to our debate? Vermeer invented an apparatus and process that went undetected and unduplicated for over 350 years and allowed him to create some of the world’s most iconic and technically exquisite paintings without any formal training. That is the pinnacle of problem solving. Design is an art form, a method of human expression that follows a system of highly developed procedures in order to imbue objects, performances, and experiences with significance. Like all art forms, design has the potential to solve problems, but there is no guarantee that it will. More than anything, I want designers to realize that art is not an asinine subculture of design rejects preoccupied with finger painting their feelings. In fact, a low view of art is also a low view of design, science, history, and culture that severely limits creative potential and interdisciplinary progress. At the end of the day, art solves problems. “Good design” is simply one path to a solution. https://stacker.news/items/1066615

@deSign_r captures life with "The Hype is the Product" - where words becomes sculpture, framing responsibly with #design & #creativity: https://stacker.news/items/1065414/r/deSign_r

@deSign_r craft "ThinkPad designer David Hill dishes on unreleased models" - respecting every #function with purpose, improving #designtips & #creativity. https://stacker.news/items/1065422/r/deSign_r

The Design Vacuum: How Apple Lost Its Aesthetic Soul to Profitable Functional https://mirz.ai/post/the-design-vacuum-how-apple-lost-its-aesthetic-soul-to-pure-and-profitable-functional # Apple convinced an entire generation that computers could be beautiful. Then they shipped Notes. What happened to the company that obsessed over the curve of an icon, the weight of a font, the perfect spacing between elements? Apple Notes, in its present visual form, exists as evidence that even Apple has forgotten why design matters. ## Looking Forward: The Return of Craft A new generation of developers is rediscovering that craft matters. That users deserve better than startup chaos with false momentum. Sometimes beauty is not vanity, it is a necessity. The next breakthrough in personal computing won't come from adding more features. It will come from rediscovering why we fell in love with computers in the first place, actually to be specific, why we fell in love with the iPhone's interpretation of a personal computer. But, it will come in the form of software. Hardware is done, for now. ## Your Thoughts? Do you remember when software felt magical? What happened to apps that made you excited to use them? Are we settling for "good enough" when we deserve "impossibly great"? When did functional become the enemy of beautiful? https://stacker.news/items/1065429

ThinkPad designer David Hill dishes on unreleased models https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/02/thinkpad_david_hill_interview/ # Long live the nub: ThinkPad designer David Hill spills secrets, designs that never made it We almost got more butterfly keyboards and foldable workstations   Interview Launched in 1992, the boxy black ThinkPad with its little red nub remains the quintessential business productivity notebook. Unlike commercial offerings from competitors such as Dell and HP, Lenovo's laptop has a following of people who collect old models and celebrate each new innovation.          https://stacker.news/items/1065422

The Hype is the Product https://rys.io/en/180.html Large publicly traded tech companies seem to no longer consider their customers – that is, people and organizations who actually buy their products or pay for access to their services – their core focus. The focus has instead turned towards the stock price. Their real clients, the entities they really care about, are the stockholders. Reasons are many, perhaps one of them being that people making decisions tend to own stock options or have bonuses tied to stock performance of the companies they run. This means that for a large, established tech company the product or service it offers does not matter all that much anymore. It needs to be just barely good enough to keep people using it. The easiest way to do this is some form of a monopoly. Monopoly is the business model of Silicon Valley, and they are not even shy about that. https://stacker.news/items/1065414

@deSign_r captures life with "The product design talent crisis" - where words becomes sculpture, framing responsibly with #design & #creativity: https://stacker.news/items/1064343/r/deSign_r