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DesignHammer is proud to sponsor the 129th Birthday and Alumni Homecoming event of The Daily Tar Heel, the award-winning student newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. We also congratulate 2022 Distinguished Alumni award winner Erica Beshears Perel, the Director of The Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media, an initiative of the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media.

On Monday, Volkswagen of North America staged a masterclass in how not to present an April Fools’ Day prank. Learn more about Volkswagen’s comedy of errors, as well as tips on how to successfully implement an April Fools' Day joke for your audience.

In the light of increased racial sensitivity, leading software companies such as Red Hat are reconsidering the inclusion of controversial jargon, such as “master/slave” and “whitelist/blacklist” in software systems, while others have already done so for years.

A family is looking for answers after a 20-year-old college student apparently committed suicide after potentially misinterpreting the UI (user interface) and UX (user experience) of the Robinhood trading app, believing he had just lost nearly $750,000 in options trading.

In the past several years, Google has broadened the criteria it assesses pages by to determine whether they are “good” content for users and has attempted to quantify this assessment into its search ranking algorithm. Google has announced the upcoming incorporation of its identified “Core Web Vitals” into a set of signals known as “Page Experience” that is slated to be incorporated into the algorithm next year.