Design studio acquisitions are common in the corporate world, and social media companies are no exception; Facebook has acquired design firms including Sofa, Hot Studio, and Teehan+Lax in the past. Ueno is known for working on apps for Uber and Reuters, while helping launch projects like ESPN’s nude Body Issue. Twitter has been a client of Ueno’s in the past. According to a Twitter spokesperson, the Ueno team won’t stay as a standalone group internally, but will be embedded across many different teams within Twitter’s design and research groups to “accelerate our work and broaden the spectrums of conversations people can have on Twitter.” … [Read more...] about Twitter has acquired its first design firm ever. Here’s why
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7 climate actions that Biden could take on his first day
As the new administration deals with multiple crises—from record COVID-19 cases to growing job losses—it’s not clear how quickly it will handle the full list of Trump’s rollbacks. Putting a replacement for the Clean Power Plan in place, for example, could take a year or two to go through a full rulemaking process. “Essentially, what the Trump administration has done is taken away a huge amount of time from the Biden administration,” says Lamm. “Instead of being able to make more proactive progress on all of these fronts on day one, they have to go through and identify backtracking and what they have to do to get back to baseline. It will happen. It’s just going to take a lot of time.” … [Read more...] about 7 climate actions that Biden could take on his first day
The border wall is destroying ecosystems. Biden can fix it
Biden has vowed that not another foot of border wall will be built by his administration, but he has also said that he won’t tear down what has already been built. Even if those additional miles of border wall aren’t torn down, Millis says they should at least be shortened. Though the Trump administration built just 47 miles miles of border wall where none had existed before, it completed 452 miles of its new border wall system: The majority of construction replaced shorter so-called vehicle barriers and pedestrian fencing that already existed with 18- to 30-foot steel walls. … [Read more...] about The border wall is destroying ecosystems. Biden can fix it
