If you've done any kind of research about software design, you've probably heard of the terms "UI" and "UX". But what separates UI from UX? At their most simple forms, UX design is what makes an interface useful, and UI design is what makes an interface beautiful.

From January 9 to January 18 people from 65 countries voted 5,646 times to select the best chatbots in each of these categories: Travel, Productivity, Social, Commerce, Entertainment, and News. But before we announce the winners... 2016, the first " Year of the Bot", is over.

The most interesting thing about Herzog and De Meuron's newly opened concert hall, the Elbphilharmonie, isn't its wave-like facade, which rises above the city of Hamburg, Germany. It's not the gently curved elevator at the base of the lobby that deposits you into the belly of the Swiss architects' alien landscape.

Even if you're not a designer, I'd bet that at some point in your career you'll need to do something visual, whether it's making a landing page for your project, designing a form, creating your personal website, or making slides.

What do you do when you don't like the prototyping tools available to you? If you are the Facebook design team, you just build your own tool. This is exactly what Facebook did when they released Origami, toolkit for Apple's Quartz Composer, a few years ago.