Smithsonian Magazine
Designers Build a Provocative Road Map for World Peace
6 min · · Cooper Hewitt’s new show taps into the collective consciousness of activists, app developers, artists and architects to envision a way forward · Shared by 897, including Rick Powell
Fast Company
I wrote the book on user-friendly design. What I see today horrifies me
Summary · 6 min · · In 1990, cognitive scientist and usability engineer Don Norman wrote the first edition of his seminal book, The Design of Everyday Things. In this article, he offers a frank – and slightly cantankerous – assessment of the current state of design for seniors and advocates for more stylish and inclusive products. He occasionally lapses into speculation, for example when he suggests that canes could become chic and coveted accessories for all and doesn’t address potential obstacles to universal design implementation. Nonetheless he provides useful examples, recommendations and a generally compelling argument that anyone in the design, production or venture capital industries may find relevant. · Shared by 362, including Dominik Grolimund, Linus Basig, Lena V. Groeger, Nils Hitze, Center Centre – UIE, Esther Schindler, @grzewap@mastodon.social, getAbstract, Nir Eyal, Raul Krauthausen, Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Clemens M. Schuster, Nick Floro, Kiki, mdy, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Brad Brooks, Adrian Swinscoe, Guy Kawasaki
Harvard Business Review
A Study of 597 Logos Shows Which Kind Is Most Effective
6 min · · Is your logo too simple for its own good? · Shared by 345, including Boris Baldinger, Wilko S. Wolters, Christian P. Stobbe, sascha aßbach, Howard Getson, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Gabriele, Jacob Cass, Education Architects, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, mdy, Melonie Dodaro, Poppytalk, Debra Mastaler, Roland Sailer, JP Nicols 🇺🇸🇺🇦, Carla Johnson - Keynote Speaker, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Till Quack, Dominik Grolimund
UX Collective
Introducing Mercury OS
20+ min · · A speculative vision of the operating system, driven by humane design principles. · Shared by 324, including Gio Tiongson, Rick Powell, @AlgoCompSynth@ravenation.club by znmeb, Chris Messina, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, KOstas, Niklaus Gerber, Gabriele, Bill Johnston, Marius Bleuer, Herbert Bay, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, @benp sur mastodon.social, Sachin Rekhi, Simone Corsi 💻🚀, Hugo Londoño, Philippe Surber, Esther Schindler, Oliver Raduner, Linus Basig
Tobias van Schneider
The best totally free web fonts & typefaces
4 min · · Quality, free web fonts are difficult to come by these days. The best place I could think to find them: Twitter. Beautiful typefaces are usually an investment, but that doesn't mean you can't find… · Shared by 285, including Brett Errington, Michael Musgrove, Rick Powell, Arne Keuning, tcherno, Victor Lee, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Manas, Chris Messina, Niklaus Gerber, José Rodrigues, mastodon.social/@renestalder, Marius Bleuer, Beni Buess
Print magazine
The Daily Heller: Stefan Sagmeister’s Slow, Yet Optimistic, Fashion Line
3 min · · The designer’s new project optimistically “serves as a reminder that the latest Tweets and cable news don’t mean we’re standing at the edge of doom.” · Shared by 263, including Rick Powell, The Daily Heller
figmadesign
"The Decade of Design”: How 10 years transformed design’s role in tech
11+ min · · The tech industry, which long exalted the engineer, has finally begun to appreciate the designer too. · Shared by 251, including Gabriele, Adham Dannaway, Peter Merholz, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Robin Klein, five5star // Design Graphique, Dominik Grolimund, Kat, Rick Powell, Oscar MacDonald, James Young, Jonathan Kogan, Luca Longo
Marvel
10 Small Design Mistakes We Still Make
10 min · · The saying that “good design is obvious” is pretty damn old, and I am sure it took different shapes in the previous centuries. It referred to good food, music, architecture, clothes, philosophy and… · Shared by 160, including Dominik Grolimund, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Дмитрий Кобец, five5star // Design Graphique, Lluís Codina, Oliver Raduner, tcherno, Katja Evertz, Rick Powell
leon-kim.com
Leon Sans
· Leon Sans is a geometric sans-serif typeface made with code in 2019 by Jongmin Kim. · Shared by 151, including Fabricio Teixeira, Veerle Pieters, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, mastodon.social/@renestalder, David Hellmann, Rick Powell, front-end.social/@heydon, René Clausen Nielsen, Val Head, Esther Schindler, Simone Corsi 💻🚀, Niklaus Gerber, ᴄʟᴀᴜᴅɪᴏ sᴄʜᴡᴀʀᴢ, Johannes Dornisch, Vojtěch Hýža
leerob.io
Everything I Know About Style Guides, Design Systems, and Component Libraries
10 min · · A deep-dive on everything I've learned in the past year building style guides, design systems, component libraries, and their best practices. · Shared by 120, including Oliver Raduner, Yoav Ganbar (🥑 Builder.io/Qwik), Thomas Kaul, Matthias Lampe, numano, Arti Villa, Nick Floro, 瑞拿頭, Gabriele, Waqas Ahmed, Rick Powell, Massimiliano Aroffo
InVision
Website color schemes that are changing the way we design
7 min · · A thorough look at website color schemes that we see all around the world wide web. · Shared by 106, including Stephanie A Kowalski, Rick Powell, Katja Evertz, Johannes Dornisch, five5star // Design Graphique, Gabriele, Ines Bieler
Google Design
Is it Good Design? Well, yeah.
· We ask people who design and build Google products what they consider to be good design. · Shared by 100, including Matteo Furia, Carlos Elcura, Shut Up and Create, Rick Powell, Tom Connor
UX Collective
The myths of the ancient UX
10 min · · User experience is nothing new. Its roots go back to antiquity to the ancient science of ergonomics. · Shared by 85, including Rick Powell, Niklaus Gerber
VICE
History Will Not Be Kind to Jony Ive
2 min · · Ive, Apple's Chief Design Officer, is leaving the company. He leaves a legacy that made its products hard to repair and impossible to upgrade. · Shared by 79, including George M 🇪🇺, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, Molly Wood, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Kat, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, Yvette d’Entremont (@thescibabe.bsky.social), Rick Powell
design.peteforamerica.com
Pete For America Design Toolkit
· The PFA Design Toolkit is your home base for downloading the graphic assets you need to support our grassroots campaign. · Shared by 51, including Oscar MacDonald, James Young, Scott Williams, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, Veerle Pieters, Jason Fried, Christian Fahrenbach, Rick Powell
Fast Company
The brilliant UI and UX design of classic 1990s anime
3 min · · We can learn a lot from the user interfaces found in anime that was made three decades ago. · Shared by 50, including Rick Powell