• Honkai: Star Rail codes for September 2024
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    Honkai: Star Rail is Hoyoverses latest title added to their mobile (and PC) game lineup, which means that yes, the game has codes that you can redeem for premium currency.In this case, Honkai: Star Rail codes reward Stellar Jade and the usual other goodies money, EXP, and the like.Below we list out the currently active Honkai: Star Rail redemption codes as of September 2024 and explain how to redeem codes.Honkai: Star Rail codes for September 2024The active Honkai: Star Rail reward codes as of writing this are as follows, in order from newest to oldest:AA2G7664C2RX(50 Stellar Jade, 10,000 credits added Sept. 10)FeixiaoFiles (2 Five-Grain Jade Elixirs, 3 Lost Crystals added Sept. 10)STARRAILGIFTHow to redeem codes in Honkai: Star RailYou can redeem the codes in game by opening the menu and tapping on the ellipses in the top right corner. A redemption code option will come up that you can select.You can also redeem them online through the Honkai: Star Rail code redeem website. Youll need to select your correct server and login through the website in order to get rewards. You will also need to have a working UID for Honkai: Star Rail. If youve never logged into Honkai: Star Rail in any form using your Hoyoverse account, it will not work.If youre just getting started in Honkai: Star Rail, you can check out our beginners guide and gacha explainer.
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  • Colored Glass Bowls by Cloudnola Add Extra Zest to Your Countertops
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    If theres a way to dress up an everyday vignette in a home and make it a little more beautiful, were all for it. Cloudnola, a design brand by Renee Vendrig and Christian Jimenez, just released their new Tip Top Glass Bowls, a bright and contemporary alternative to the average fruit bowl. Made from superior soda lime glass, a sustainable material known for its durability, these vessels add fun to functionality, keeping your fresh fruit front and center or corralling bits and bobs at your entry table.Each Tip Top bowl is handmade by skilled artisans, evident in the subtle imperfections and slight variations in color, size, and thickness. This means each piece is unique, imbued with a handcrafted quality. The multiple layers of glass add a substantial weight to the bowl, making it feel just as durable as it truly is. When sunlight hits the vessels, a mesmerizing interplay of light and color adds drama to your tabletops, creating beauty in commonplace vignettes.The Tip Top Glass Bowl in the blue/pink colorway is the only large size, measuring 26 cm in diameter and 19 cm in height, while the bowls in the pink/yellow and green/yellow colorways come in a smaller size, at 20.5 cm in diameter and 14.5 cm in height.For more information or to add the Tip Top Glass Bowls into your own home, visit cloudnola.com.
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  • The Ultimate Ears Miniroll Brings Speaker Portability to the Next Level
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    Ultimate Ears is taking speaker portability to the next level. The company has announced the new Ultimate Ears Miniroll Bluetooth speaker, a device that it says is so portable that you can actually wear it. Ultimate Ears has long built highly portable Bluetooth speakers, but few have been as small as this. The Miniroll sits in at 1.9 x 4.83 x 4.13 inches. Thats pretty tiny, and while it probably wont quite fit in your pocket, itll easily fit in a backpack or purse.But one of the big advantages of this speaker, according to Ultimate Ears, is the fact that you can wear it. The speaker has a strap built into it that you can use to attach the speaker to your clothing or to a backpack, for example. Its a neat idea that makes the speaker a solid choice for things like hiking. On top of being portable, its colorful, with it available in four different color options. The speaker is made of 100% post-consumer recycled polyester fabric and at least 40% post-consumer recycled plastic. Its built for adventures as well, offering an IP67 water resistance rating and a drop-proof design that Ultimate Ears says will allow the speaker to withstand drops of up to 1.2 meters.The speaker is decently high-tech, though lets be honest, this probably isnt the speaker for audiophiles who want a high-end listening experience. The Miniroll supports Bluetooth 5.3 with a range of up to an impressive 40 meters or 131 feet. It also supports the new Auracast standard, which allows you to connect to multiple AuraCast-enabled Bluetooth speakers. The battery life sits in at 12 hours of continuous listening which is fairly comparable to other similar devices.As far as speaker drivers go, the Miniroll is really only a mono speaker, with one 45.6mm active driver and one 37.75 x 65mm passive radiator for bass. Itll go up against other ultra-portable speakers from the likes of Tribit, Minirig, and Anker Soundcore, though many of those speakers are much cheaper and likely dont sound quite as good.The Miniroll comes in at the relatively inexpensive cost of $79.99, and its available at ultimateears.com. This post contains affiliate links, so if you make a purchase from an affiliate link, we earn a commission. Thanks for supporting Design Milk!
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  • The who, what, and how of Social Impact Design
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    Guiding questions for greaterimpact.When I left IDEO earlier this year, I decided to focus my attention on diving deeper and expanding wider in the area of design for environmental and society change. I dream of a future where everyone flourishespeople, communities, and the planetand I believe that design can play a role in moving us closer towards thisfuture.When it comes to design for social and environmental change, there are elaborate frameworks and tools that can help us along the way. However, I often find myself coming back to three basic areas when I evaluate and engage in design forgood:WHAT we design. WHO we design for. HOW wedesign.WHAT wedesign:What we design plays a big role in our ability to have a positive impact on society and the natural environment. Before we begin to design, its important to determine if the outcome of our work has the potential for good. Sometimes the what can be found in the area were focusing on. For example, solutions for healthcare, public services, or education. Other times the what can be found in the direct impact our products or services have on the lives of everydaypeople.Questions to ask yourself:Is what we design making the world a betterplace?During my sophomore year of college, I was visiting my family I Sweden over summer break. One night, I found myself at dinner with my dad and a few of his colleagues. Naturally, they were curious about my life in America and what I was studying. I explained that I was training to become a designer, with hopes of working in advertising. Midway through the meal, one of my dad's colleagues asked if there was anything I wouldnt advertise. Naive and eager, I shook my head and replied, "I dont know." At the time, I was focused on finding a jobany jobafter graduation.I left the table and didnt look back. Until 10 years later. I was living the agency life working on a lot different clients in a lot of different sectors. I spent my days polishing products and creating social media posts for brands I felt no connection toall for companies solely focused on increasing profits. I began to remember that question from dinner years agowhat would I never advertise? My answer to the question posed to me at the dinner table got an answer when the agency I was working for signed a big contract with a gun manufacturer. That was an industry I could not support, and at that moment, I knew it was time for me to make a shift and start defining all the things I would never advertise (ordesign).As designers caught in the capitalist grind, we cant always control the clients or sectors we work with. But its important to start asking ourselves: What industries would we refuse to promote? and Which sectors are more likely to prioritize social good? The answers to these questions may shape not only our careers but also our contributions tosociety.Is what we design solving for symptoms or tackling rootcauses?The more I dive into social impact design, the more I see how many solutions address symptoms rather than underlying conditions. Designing for social change means designing for interconnected systems that get to the root cause of an issue. One example that comes to mind when I think about symptoms vs. root causes is our well-designed fitness trackers. Products like Fitbit and other fitness trackers are on most peoples wrists. Even our phones track every step we take. These devices are making us more active, which is good. However, they address the symptom, not the system. Weve created environments where our jobs and our lives keep us at the computer for 8+ hours and the pace of work limits our ability to go for a walk or take a break. Weve moved away from communal living arrangements. Its easy to see how our systems create unhealthy conditions, but instead of fixing the system, were putting bandages on symptoms in the form of personal trackingdevices.Could what we design lead to unintended harm?The goal we set influences the questions we ask and the questions we ask influences the results we get. I love asking questions like how might we. It opens up a space of possibility. However, as we ask ourselves, how might we, we also have to ask, at what cost. Its a balance between opportunity and responsibility, and sometimes the best solution is to not design the thing in the firstplace.WHO we designfor:As designers, our ability to create change is affected by who we are working for. The goals of an organization or a company affects our ability to create change. The who we design for lies both in the business we work with and the users we design for. We have to examine organizations ability and desire to directly serve people and communities.Questions to ask yourself:Who hired you to do thework?This might sound like a basic question, but its important to examine who hired you to do the work. In the industry of design, companies are really good at using words, and PR appears to be more mission-focused than what they actually are. As a social-impact designer, I want to work for and with organizations that align with my values. I want to work with organizations that put purpose at the core of their products and their people. I often seek out non-profits, public organizations, or companies that have a clear, mission-driven approach to their work. However, focusing on these sectors does not automatically ensure that the work will have a positive impact. There are plenty of organizations with good intentions but bad practices (See the how we design section later in this post). These might include inefficient processes, lack of community engagement, or even a mismatch between their mission and theiractions.How are their values and actions bringing about socialchange?One thing I love about branding is getting to sit down with clients to define their values. This helps them get to the core of the business and find the deeper meaning behind their work. When I encounter new potential clients, I like to examine the bridge between the values that they hold (or say they hold) and the actions that theyre taking. Often, there are disconnects between what companies say they want to do and what they are actuallydoing.Who is the work in serviceof?When I design, I want to get as close as possible to the end-user. I like to ask myself who or what is this work in service of? A lot of design is in service of company growth and shareholder profits. The people who benefit in the end are the people at the top of the pyramid. Even when were using human-centered processes, the thing we create ends up serving business growth first and foremost. Defining who the work is in service of can help us create better, more equitable solutions. As we figure out who we are serving, we also have to ask who might lose if this service or product is implemented.HOW wedesign:I find that how we create something has a great potential for harm. Both to the people on the team, and the people in the communities were trying to help. Im happy to see that human-centered design is evolving to be more community-centric. Movements like co-design, participatory design, and design justice are helping designers question their roles and make sure that power shifts to the people most impacted by a problem. Questioning our HOW helps us make sure that were not causing harm along theway.Questions to ask yourself:Are the conditions conducive to deep thinking and creative exploration?Often, our ability to create change is influenced by a limited budget and short timelines. The creative industry is riddled with resignation and burnout. As we get caught between unrealistic deadlines and a desire to do deep, meaningful work, it is important to acknowledge and reflect on the conditions that we find ourselves in. We might not have the ability to create change once were in the work itself, but we can find new ways to speak up our push back next time. I recently saw this post by Angela Cox, PhD where she discussed the harm caused by hurrying. In the opening, shesaid:I used to deeply annoy one of my managers by saying Haste is a form of violence! every time he was trying to get us to hurry.We cannot create human-centered design solutions when were working under inhuman conditions. Rushing often leads to unintended harm to our people and the planet. In her post, Dr. Cox highlights how slowing down is kind. Slowing down is inclusive. Slowing down increases our chance of catching ourbiases.Are we implementing ethical practices?As we look to design more responsibly, we must also shift the tools and practices we use throughout the way. When I was working at IDEO, we worked internally to evolve our design practices to become more inclusive. This meant shifting the tools we used as well as creating moments to pause and reflect throughout projects. Slowly, we started shifting how we did work in order to limit the harm in the end. Some of my favorite harm reduction tools in designinclude:Microsofts inclusive design tools that gives you tools to create more inclusive personas as well as ways to evaluation your solutions from an ethical and harm-reduction lens,AirBnBs Another Lens: A research kit for conscientious creatives that helps designers question their biases and blindspots throughout the designprocess.Cards for Humanity: A practical card game tool to help you design more inclusively.Are we collaborating with communities in the rightways?In the intro to this section I mention movements like co-design, participatory, and design justice. These movements (along others) are challenging how designers show up and how we design with not for communities. The people closest to the problem often know the solutions better than someone who comes from the outside. Designers need to find ways to shift the power and develop new models for collaboration in order to avoid harm and solve problems in the rightway.Good is better thanperfect.When designing for good, it can feel like we must be perfect, but waiting for the perfect setup will leave us stuck. Sometimes we work on important topics for clients who have questionable practices. Other times, were working with ethical clients but the conditions to get the work done are harming us and the communities were trying to help. Nothing is 100% pure and perfect. I recently came across this clip (longer talk here) by Clover HoganFounder of Force of Nature. In the talk, she explores the pressures to do everything perfect in the fight for climatechange.The fixation of individual actions has created this myth of perfectionism and served as a vehicle to undermine the credibility of people who are just trying to make a differenceHer talk touches on the many times she, alongside other climate activists, have faced criticism for working with the wrong (not ethical enough) people or buying the wrong (not sustainable enough) products even when their overall impact has led to positive change. As we try to use design to improve the world around us and the world inside of us, we need to balance our need for perfection. By using questions around what, who, and how we design, we can become more conscious about our processes and partnerships. And we can encourage others to reflect on the ethical aspect of their work as well. In the end, were taking small steps together towards a brighterfuture.The who, what, and how of Social Impact Design was originally published in UX Collective on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.
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  • How to build an AI-driven User Research Repository
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    Leverage AI to make research smarter, faster, and to build a more user-centered product teamContinue reading on UX Collective
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  • This Tool Finds Matching Usernames Across 400 Social Media Networks
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    Want to check if a particular internet handle you encountered online (or created yourself) is being used on any other social networks or websites? Sherlock is a free command line application that scans around 400 social networks and finds accounts that match whatever username you type in.Using this service couldn't be simpler: Just open it up and type "sherlock" followed by the username your want to search for. The program will check every site it can access and tell you where accounts matching your username exist, complete with a link to the relevant profile page. This is useful in two ways: finding people across multiple websites, and checking whether a username you're thinking of using is already taken on other sites.Find a specific user name anywhere it's registeredThe first of those use cases isn't foolproof, of course. For one thing, some people use different handles on different websites. For another, accounts with the same name on different websites aren't necessarily going to belong to the same person or brand (most of the accounts in the screenshot at the top of this post, for example, do not belong to Lifehacker). Still, just knowing where other accounts with the same handle exist is a great starting point if you're curious what other sites the person you're searching for uses regularly.Check if your user name is taken almost anywhereThe second scenario, checking whether a handle you're thinking of using is broadly available on the web, is possibly much more useful. Whether you're thinking of starting a company or just toying around with a new internet handle, it's good to know whether anyone else is already using your chosen moniker.How to set up Sherlock on macOS, Linux, and WindowsSherlock is useful, yes, but a little bit tricky to set up. On a Mac, the simplest way to tackle it is to install the service using Homebrew, which makes installing and updating Mac apps much easier. After setting up Homebrew, you'll only need to open that app and type "brew install sherlock" to install. Things are easier if you're a Linux user: Sherlock is likely already offered by your package manager. Things are much harder on Windows, sadly. On that system, I recommended you set up pipx for installation. This is a sort of package manager for Python scripts. The process is probably not going to be straightforward if you're not already comfortable with the command line, but as an overview, you'll need to install Python, then use pip to install pipx, then use pipx to install Sherlock. Yes, that's a lot setup to use one simple tool. But once everything is set up, Sherlock couldn't be easier to useand it just might be worth the effort.
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  • TikTok's Favorite Kitchen Organizing Tools
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    TikTok and Instagram are full of ideas about how to clean your homeand some of them are better than others. Viral hacks are hit or miss, whereas product recommendations are usually a hit. But why stop at cleaning products? Social media is full of solid suggestions for organizing products, too, so once you get your home nice and clean, you can also get it organized. Let's start in the kitchen: Here are the things TikTokkers swear by. Unique kitchen organizing tools, according to TikTokThere are a lot of ready-made, use-specific kitchen organizing products out there. Creators love those and we'll get to a few, but before that, here are some more unique options, like things you can grab at a dollar store and use in multifunction ways.First, a lot of TikTokkers agree with me that turntables or lazy Susans are the holy grail of organization and sorting, both in the kitchen and beyond it. It's true: Spinning racks give you the opportunity to store similar items together while still giving them a hierarchy. The things you use less can be stored in the back, but you can still access them with a quick spin of the turntable if you need them. Obviously, you associate these with spices (and should use one in the spice cabinet, if you have room), but they're also perfect for the fridge, cleaning products, snacks, and smaller cook- and dinnerware, like cups. Get a pack of four for $24.99. Lazy Susan Turntable, Set of 4, 12 Inch Non-Skid Lazy Susan Organizer for Cabinet, Pantry Organization, Kitchen Storage, Bathroom Sink Cabinet, Refrigerator, Countertop, Spice Rack (4 Pack 12 in) The creator behind the video linked above also suggested something I thought was really smart: using book organizers in the kitchen. I'm a big fan of using containers to keep similar items together and give them all a designated storage space, but removing lids and stacking bins can get in the way of efficiencyan issue the book organizers solve. They're open in the front, but still structured enough to hold things like spices, snacks, or smaller goods. Six are $15.Then again, you can't go wrong with a bunch of small, basic, plastic containers. They hold ingredients, spices, snacks, and whatever else you have an abundance of in the kitchen, and they're beloved even though they're simple.TikTok-approved kitchen organizingFinding ways to fit all your kitchen essentials into dollar store containers is one thing. Sometimes, you need products that are designed for very specific needs within the room. A great example is this plastic structure that holds soup and vegetable cans: This makes use of vertical space so your cans don't take up too much space spread out in your cupboard, but also aren't just stacked cans precariously on top of each other. You have a few options here. One like the organizer shown in the video will cost about $50, but you can also get wire organizers for cheaper, in the neighborhood of $23. I also like this can organizer that fits around the interior of your cabinet, providing additional shelving space on top while keeping space free in the center. It's $26.99.I've also had my eye on a dry goods dispenser like the one featured in this video. There are a variety on the market, but this simple one ($36) has six compartments and is perfect for storing and dispensing flour, sugar, cereal, rice, etc. Because I'm a stickler about matching decor, I'm waiting until a pink one goes on sale before I pull the trigger, but check it out: PIOJNYEN Grain Dispenser, 360 Rotating Grain Storage Food Dispenser with Lid Moisture Resistant Household, Upgrade 6 Compartment Rotating Rice Dispenser Storage Container for Small Grains, Beans If you watch the video above, you'll also notice pull-out cabinet organizers. I love these for the same reason as turntables: They make it super easy to access what you need in the back without making a mess to get it. Perfect for larger ingredients and cleaning supplies, these will keep your cabinets organized for around $50.
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  • Someone discovered a new cheat code for the 27-year-old Saturn port of Doom
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    The first-person shooter Doom has so many ports on so many different consoles and computers that modders have had to find new places to port the game like autonomous lawnmowers, digestive bacteria and even in Doom II itself.One port thats not nearly as popular or playable as the others is the Sega Saturn port that came out nearly four years after the games release. Gamespots Jeff Gerstmann called the Sega Saturn Doom port just about everything you can call a bad game without straying over the the boundaries of good taste: completely worthless, drab, jerky, to be avoided at all costs.Bo, a self-described reverse engineer of Sega Saturn games, gave the Sega Saturn port of Doom another chance and he discovered a cheat code in the game thats been laying dormant for more than a decade. He posted the secret cheat code he found on X.Here's a cheat code for the Saturn version of DOOM that I think has gone unnoticed since 1997. Pause the game and press:X, Right, B, Y, X, Right, B, YThe walls will become semi-transparent. See the before/after pictures below! pic.twitter.com/iLRDwEr46M Bo (Low Context Burning Rangers) (@memory_fallen) September 10, 2024 The button combination X, Right, B, Y, X, Right, B, Y gives you the ability to see through the walls of the Mars substation and even Hell. Its too bad the game doesnt have a cheat code that lets you see a better version of Doom.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/someone-discovered-a-new-cheat-code-for-the-27-year-old-saturn-port-of-doom-230059377.html?src=rss
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  • Google announces deal with direct-air capture startup to remove carbon emissions
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    Google announced that it has entered a partnership with Holocene to support its direct-air capture technology for collecting and removing carbon dioxide emissions from the atmosphere. Under this $10 million deal, Google will purchase carbon removal credits from Holocene at a rate of $100 per metric ton. This is the price the US Department of Energy set as a goal for direct-air capture technology to make it a viable part of efforts to reduce the rate at which we emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.As the name implies, direct-air capture can collect carbon dioxide out of the air, then concentrate the gas to be stored in underground reservoirs. It sounds great in theory, but the technology has proven expensive and difficult to scale. Google said its support should allow Holocene to capture and store 100,000 tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by the early 2030s, in addition to helping the company further refine its DAC technology. Holocene has a more detailed explanation of its DAC approach on its website.Sustainability has become an important talking point for a lot of big tech. Google has made a big investment in buying carbon offsets, enough that it claims to have eliminated its entire "carbon legacy," and it aims to be carbon neutral by 2030. But its greenhouse gas emissions have risen almost 50 percent in the past five years thanks to the intensive data center demands of AI usage.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/google-announces-deal-with-direct-air-capture-startup-to-remove-carbon-emissions-225627149.html?src=rss
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  • 240909_PuppeteerOverlap_MayaAnimationTool_tw.mp4
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    Streamlined new Maya add-on Puppeteer Overlap automatically adds secondary motion to improve the realism of character and creature animationhttps://www.cgchannel.com/2024/09/puppeteer-overlap-adds-secondary-motion-to-maya-animations/
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