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3D Festival powered by 360Fashion Network Beijing Design Week 2013 Beijing, China — 360Fashion Network pioneers again by reaching beyond fashion into design during the Beijing Design Week 2013 and creating the 3D Festival. The festival will include a showcase, training, workshops, speeches, and demonstration of 3D Printing, 3D Augmented Reality, 3D Body Scanning, 3D Design, and 3D Virtual Worlds. The exhibition will take place during the Beijing Design Week 2013, September 28th, 2013 to October 3rd, 2013.

Corey Davis 'improved' despite missing past 5 games Corey Davis is expected to return to the playing field following the Tennessee Titans' bye this week. The first-round rookie hasn't played since Week 2 while dealing with a hamstring injury. He also missed the entire preseason due to the same issue. Despite playing just 63 snaps this season, Davis believes he'll return a better player after missing the past five games.

Design with Intent toolkit Design with Intent toolkit Design with Intent: 101 patterns for influencing behaviour through design by Dan Lockton with David Harrison & Neville A. Stanton. Why Google Just Paid $3 Billion for a Thermostat Company It has been a couple years since Google announced a multi-billion dollar acquisition that caused peoples' jaws to drop. On Monday, the company did just that with the news that it had entered into an agreement to buy Nest, which makes smart thermostats and smoke detectors, for $3.2 billion in cash. On Twitter, some users reacted by joking about the possibility of Google requiring a Google+ account to use Nest products or introducing thermostat ads. These and other reactions showed a genuine concern that Google might somehow mess up Nest, a common enough concern with any acquisition.

Designing for Context: The Multiscreen Ecosystem To create applications and systems that are easy to use, it is crucial to understand the user and the context in which the app will be used. Understanding the context helps design systems that anticipate use cases at a relevant time of use. The more unobtrusive and transparent the experience is at the time of use, the better the design. This means the user does not have to think about the device he is using, changes in the environment, or changes in context, and can rely on great functionality and ease of use independent of his situation.

The Best Social Media Icons All In One Place 464 shares 8 Free & Useful Minimal Icon Sets Icons are certainly a very important element of a design. It doesn’t matter if you are putting together a website or app, icons will be the key for several user interactions. This is why it’s always good to fill your library with good icons you can count on. The good thing is that there are…