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design.facebook.com
Behind Instagram’s brand evolution: Movement, inclusivity and a new purpose
design.facebook.com
1 min read · May 23rd · Get the story behind Instagram’s refreshed brand identity fromour brand, product and creative teams.
Shared by 14, including Design at Meta
medium.com
On Design Thinking
medium.com
10 min read · May 13th · Oh… are we still talking about this?
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 109, including Patrick Sanwikarja, Katja Evertz, Marius Bleuer, Stéphanie Walter
tannerchristensen.com
Systems thinking is what makes designers great — Tanner Christensen
tannerchristensen.com
3 min read · May 23rd · I used to believe that what made great designers so great was their craft; their ability to add polish and style to whatever they touched. Now I see that what makes exceptional designers so incredible…
Reader View · Shared by 165, including Michelle Boisson
Fast Company
This Japanese designer turned discarded fishing containers into groovy furniture
Fast Company
2 min read · May 20th · Japan’s declining fishing industry has left behind a constellation of discarded fishing containers. Now some of them have been reborn as chairs.
Reader View · Shared by 9
A List Apart
Designers, (Re)define Success First
A List Apart
~13 min read · May 13th · Designing ethically may sound daunting at first, but Lennart Overkamp sets forth a template for engaging stakeholders around new priorities, exploring objectives that span from individual to global…
iamli.am
A New Future for the Interface
iamli.am
20+ min read · Apr 27th · Exploring the role of design without “users.”
Reader View · Shared by 114
julian.is
A Growth-Focused Intro to Multi-Sided Platform Design
julian.is
~20 min read · May 19th · A comprehensive guide on designing the experience and growing the engagement of networked markets.
Reader View · Shared by 104
ellenchisa.substack.com
Translating Design Goals to Business Needs
ellenchisa.substack.com
6 min read · May 16th · part II of Finance for Designers
sparkbox.com
Version Management for Design Systems
sparkbox.com
7 min read · May 16th · Automating your design system versioning through version numbers, changelogs, and package publication allows your team to focus on building and maintaining great software.
Reader View · Shared by 102, including Mohamed Azazy
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tannerchristensen.com
Systems thinking is what makes designers great — Tanner Christensen
tannerchristensen.com
3 min read · May 23rd · I used to believe that what made great designers so great was their craft; their ability to add polish and style to whatever they touched. Now I see that what makes exceptional designers so incredible…
Reader View · Shared by 165, including Michelle Boisson
blog.maximeheckel.com
Building a Design System from scratch
blog.maximeheckel.com
20+ min read · May 11th · A deep dive into my experience building my own design system that documents my process of defining tokens, creating efficient components, and shipping them as a package.
Reader View · Shared by 154, including Tarik ESSAADI, David Hellmann
UX Collective
If design principles are for designs, then design values are for designers
UX Collective
9 min read · May 2nd · Design principles. They are the essential ingredients behind the execution of every good design. Each designer and design team establishes…
sparkbox.com
What are the Different Layers and Parts of a Design System?
sparkbox.com
~11 min read · Apr 15th · What is a successful design system made of? Learn about the four layers of a design system and the parts that make up each of these layers.
Reader View · Shared by 117, including Chris R Becker, Johannes Dornisch
iamli.am
A New Future for the Interface
iamli.am
20+ min read · Apr 27th · Exploring the role of design without “users.”
Reader View · Shared by 114
medium.com
On Design Thinking
medium.com
10 min read · May 13th · Oh… are we still talking about this?
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 109, including Patrick Sanwikarja, Katja Evertz, Marius Bleuer, Stéphanie Walter
julian.is
A Growth-Focused Intro to Multi-Sided Platform Design
julian.is
~20 min read · May 19th · A comprehensive guide on designing the experience and growing the engagement of networked markets.
Reader View · Shared by 104
sparkbox.com
Version Management for Design Systems
sparkbox.com
7 min read · May 16th · Automating your design system versioning through version numbers, changelogs, and package publication allows your team to focus on building and maintaining great software.
Reader View · Shared by 102, including Mohamed Azazy
Webflow
90s jazz design: cups, controversy, and nostalgia
Webflow
4 min read · May 13th · From paper cups to pop culture — the surprisingly dramatic story of the 90s jazz design.
Reader View · Shared by 98
Intercom
Intercom's product principles: Following design fundamentals to leave space for innovation
Intercom
6 min read · Apr 21st · At Intercom, we focus on the problem and finding the right design to solve it. If it doesn’t exist, or if it’s not good enough, we create it.
Reader View · Shared by 91
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Open Culture
The Woman Who Theorized Color: An Introduction to Mary Gartside’s New Theory of Colours (1808)
Open Culture
3 min read · Apr 21st
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 740, including Jennifer Ouellette, Tamsen Webster, Message Strategist (she/her), Marcos
Vox
Dark patterns, the tricks websites use to make you say yes, explained
Vox
10 min read · 2021-04-01 · How design can manipulate and coerce you into doing what websites want.
Reader View · Shared by 724, including Stephanie A Kowalski, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, tcherno, Kat, Marc Abrahams, Christian Hartmann, Gabriele, Juan Felipe Correa Giraldo, Lluís Codina, Jessel Sookha, Matt Navarra, Josep M. Ganyet, Mauro Toselli, Ceferino Díaz
ArchDaily
How Colors Change the Perception of Interior Spaces
ArchDaily
5 min read · From 2020 · Some possibilities to change environments with colors or contrasts, confusing proportions.
Reader View · Shared by 702, including MIT SA+P, Martina Grolimund, Shawn Venasse, Veerle Pieters, Christian Surchi, Matthias Lampe, Tom Connor, Rifki Caesar Novaldin, Ceferino Díaz, Dominik Grolimund, AIA National, Oliver Reichenstein, 瑞拿頭, Kevin Roberts, Vašek, Robert McGregor
nature
Adding is favoured over subtracting in problem solving
nature
4 min read · 2021-04-08 · People tend to solve problems by adding features.
Reader View · Shared by 673, including Bob Sutton, Patrick Sanwikarja, Peter Herger, Esther Schindler, Christopher Lauer, Gabriele, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Luzius Meisser, Arie Goldshlager, Filippo Antonio Capizzi, Stephan Woodtli, Kyle Bunch, Matteo Furia, davidabrock, Benjamin, Zach Seward, Bas Grasmayer, Mark Kaigwa, William Gibson, Patrick Collison
Mozilla
Why are hyperlinks blue?
Mozilla
9 min read · 2021-08-26 · The internet has ingrained itself into every aspect of our lives, but there’s one aspect of the digital world that I bet you take for granted. Did you ev
Reader View · Shared by 561, including Ernie Smith, Steve Faulkner, Tactical Tech, Josep M. Ganyet, zeldman, Chris Heilmann, Ferran Morales, Gisele Navarro, Matt Navarra, Mike Ivars, hiten.eth, Ines Bieler, Eric Vitiello, Esther Schindler, PacielloGroup, Raphael Raue, Katja Evertz, Gabriele, Tarik ESSAADI, Adrian Roselli 🗯
It's Nice That
Five design trends set to visually shape 2022
It's Nice That
Jan 5th · From gooey blobs in 3D art to posters and album covers drenched in intense, eye-searing colours, some trends had a big 2021. Here, we explore how they might change and evolve in 2022 and shed some…
Shared by 539, including Katja Evertz, Ines Bieler, Johannes Lenz, Stephanie A Kowalski
The Guardian
The empty promises of Marie Kondo and the craze for minimalism
The Guardian
~15 min read · From 2020 · The long read: From the ‘KonMari method’ to Apple’s barely-there design philosophy, we are forever being urged to declutter and simplify our lives. But does minimalism really make us any happier?
Reader View · Shared by 456, including Liliane Ferrari ™, Jane, Merkstatt, Javi Cantón, Agnese Folli, Fern, Katja Evertz, Stephanie A Kowalski, Kyle Chayka, Esther Schindler, Tillmann Allmer, Guy Kawasaki, Ceferino Díaz, Felix M, Johannes Dornisch, Mars Rebello, Liv 😷
Literary Hub
The 25 Most Iconic Book Covers in History
Literary Hub
~12 min read · 2021-10-07 · First things first. What makes a book cover iconic? There are no hard and fast rules, of course—like anything else, you know it when you see it. But in order to compile this list, I looked for reco…
Reader View · Shared by 443, including Jeff Atwood, Heydon 🇺🇦, David Boaz, Mynul Islam, Daniel Pink, Katja Evertz, M. Serdar Kuzuloğlu, Nick Floro
UX Collective
Psychological principles every product designer should know
UX Collective
~11 min read · 2021-03-02 · Psychology is a crucial element in designing the right kind of systems, interfaces and experiences for your users/customers.
Reader View · Shared by 425, including Stéphanie Walter, Gabriele, Stephanie A Kowalski, Pouya, George Waititu, Adham Dannaway, Marius Bleuer, rohit, Evan (he/him), Boris Périsset, Gianluca Diegoli