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advertisement advertisement advertisement I made my way to Capitol Hill in the spring of 2019, after the midterm elections when an unprecedented large crop of women had been elected. The weather was unseasonably warm, and my Lyft driver made small talk about the fact that it was the peak time to see cherry blossoms. I had arranged to meet with a group of newly elected congresswomen: Elaine Luria, Abigail Spanberger, Chrissy Houlahan, Elissa Slotkin, and Mikie Sherrill. They were far outnumbered by the men in Congress, but this huddle of women had years of practice being the minority gender, because they’d all had former careers in the military or CIA. Their schedules that week were so tight that we had to meet at 9:30 p.m. after they’d spent a full day in session. advertisement advertisement Once inside the Capitol, I passed through the metal detectors and was met by a young staffer who led me back to a cozy office. The five … [Read more...] about A crop of new congresswomen talk to Brooke Baldwin on succeeding in male-dominated fields

advertisement advertisement advertisement Apple’s iPhone changed everything when it debuted in 2007, with its handy touchscreen that introduced totally new concepts like pinch-to-zoom. But it’s easy to forget  in the age of iPhones that UX is about a lot more than a touchscreen. It’s about making real world gestures, touching physical buttons, and sometimes looking away from a screen entirely. advertisement advertisement As user experience guru Don Norman wrote in 2015 , Apple forgot about about some of its more nuanced approaches to UX after launching the iPhone. Apple’s quest for minimal, visual simplicity hid core functions and made it harder for people to recover from their own errors. Even more importantly, touchscreens trapped us all inside 5-inch worlds, a space that was inherently narrow in both our inputs and our experiences. UX became small, and in a sense, life followed. At today’s Spring Loaded event, Apple showed … [Read more...] about 5 ways Apple is thinking beyond the touchscreen

advertisement advertisement advertisement Streetwear label Pangaia wants to sell you pollution. Literally. advertisement advertisement The brand’s latest capsule collection features clothes and accessories emblazoned with logos that use black ink made from toxic particles. This particulate matter would otherwise contribute to global warming and harm human health. But Pangaia partnered with Graviky Labs, a startup spun out of an MIT project, to suck it out of the atmosphere and transform it into screen printing ink. This is the first time this kind of ink has been used in garments. Creating a market for pollution Anirudh Sharma, Graviky’s cofounder, is from India, where air pollution is a serious problem. The country is the most polluted on earth, with at least 140 million people breathing in air that is at least 10 times above the World Health Organization’s safe limits. In big cities, like Delhi and Calcutta, … [Read more...] about This fashion label is making clothes out of air pollution