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Trends are dead

Coastal grandmother, night luxe, that girl. Anything can be a trend on the internet. Why are we so determined to name them?

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Dark patterns, the tricks websites use to make you say yes, explained

How design can manipulate and coerce you online.

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Why every website wants you to accept its cookies

Cookies are small files that websites send to your device that the sites then use to monitor you and remember certain information about you.

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Why do we need Game of Thrones Oreos, makeup, and Mountain Dew?

As the hit show comes to a close, fans are ready to collect everything from $100 t-shirts to White Walker whiskey.

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This font you know from old pulp novels is all over new books

You know that thing you've been seeing all over the place? Allow us to explain it. What it is: Lydian is a "humanist" sans-serif typeface.

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Products mocked as "lazy" or "useless" are often important tools

On a June episode of his show Last Week Tonight, John Oliver went in on a product called the Sock Slider.

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Brutalism turns "ugly" into a design statement

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The reason every meme uses that one font

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