Read the riveting story of how a group of compassionate people and some unlikely scientific tools helped give an American bald eagle a second chance at life.

We are always trying to make things better and simpler for our users and found our older theme to be wanting in several areas. For the past four months our team has been fighting with me for a new design and for the past two months we have been conceptualizing and working on a new design that would “not suck” for our users.

Emerging trends, Microsoft’s future, interaction and design are topics that Albert Shum talks about and correlates in his presentation.

A comparison of the different design elements in iOS and Windows 8.

Microsoft is inspiring artistic creativity through the launch of an international project called The Art of Touch. The campaign provides a free digital toolset and canvas to easily create, save, and share digital artwork.

In web designing, it is very much necessary for designers to be creative and use different techniques to attract a viewer, and we have most sites using animate GIF images to drive attention. In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at the Photoshop animation feature which can be used to create animated GIF image.

Google has rolled out a new design to their homepage where they have added a new black menu bar for easier navigation, reduced the size of their logo and moved links to the bottom of the page.

Facebook acquires Sofa, a Amsterdam-based company. Sofa is a small software and interaction design company, founded in 2006.

Twitter’s new home page focuses on interests and topics. Perhaps plans to take on static and social news aggregators.

An application for previewing a word of your choice with the fonts installed on your computer. Works directly from your browser

If you’ve installed the latest Ubuntu 10.10, loved the new default Ubuntu font and want to have the same font available on your other systems running Windows or Mac, you may look no further.

Canonical Design has released new Ubuntu Fonts which will be used in Ubuntu 10.10. The fonts are currently available only as a private beta.

The new design of the Ubuntu website went online today.

Google has planned to renovate its design. The new search interface has a better integration with social activities and will appear over the next two days.

In the Kubuntu meeting yesterday night, the Kubuntu Council has approved the design for the new Kubuntu logo. The logo clearly follows the design of the new Ubuntu logo and has the same font.