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UX Collective
Frutiger: from a dot to the Paris airportUX Collective
20+ min read · Sep 30th · Balancing black and white, developing a universal language, and deconstructing what made Adrian Frutiger the designer’s designer · Shared by 98
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Spotify Design
Finding your T-Shape as a Generalist DesignerSpotify Design
7 min read · Sep 26th · In the first instalment of an interview series, two Designers reflect on life as a generalist at Spotify and the career path that led them here. · Shared by 191
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Spotify Design
Finding your T-Shape as a Generalist DesignerSpotify Design
7 min read · Sep 26th · In the first instalment of an interview series, two Designers reflect on life as a generalist at Spotify and the career path that led them here. · Shared by 191
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UX Magazine
The Value of Inconvenient DesignUX Magazine
7 min read · Sep 15th · Technology makes seemingly inconvenient tasks easier — but at what cost? · Shared by 187, including Cyril Coste #DigitalTransformation, Stef Walter
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One Formula To Rule Them All: The ROI Of A Design System — Smashing MagazineSmashing Magazine 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈
20+ min read · Sep 9th · Design systems are a crucial success factor for digital businesses, and virtually every major player works with one. Still, they can sometimes be hard to sell to management. Here’s a ready-to-use… · Shared by 172, including Gabriele
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Spotify Design
A Designer's Balancing Act: Staying Creative and Organized in FigmaSpotify Design
5 min read · Sep 7th · Carly shows us her strategy to ensure Figma files are set up for exploring freeform designs while also creating space for collaboration and clarity. · Shared by 168, including Elise Korsmo Fjeld
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Why designers quitmatejlatin.com
8 min read · Sep 20th · 53 percent of designers who responded to my survey were UX/Product Designers, around 17 percent were graphic, 9 percent web designers, 6 percent design generalists, 6 percent UI and visual designers,… · Shared by 166
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UX Collective
leading design in the new industryUX Collective
~15 min read · Sep 19th · Is there a need for designers to up their skills and knowledge in the new industrial revolution? Yes, but it comes with it’s own set of… · Shared by 161
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indeed.design
Designing for Trustworthy Automationindeed.design
8 min read · Sep 15th · Lessons from creating the UX of a virtual assistant. · Shared by 156
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UX Collective
Mourning Figma: the end of a chapterUX Collective
6 min read · Sep 16th · Reactions and reflections on Adobe acquiring Figma · Shared by 150
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The Future Of Design Is Open Source, Thanks To FigmaPrototypr 👁️✨
9 min read · Sep 23rd · How Figma made Open Design a thing, and a look to the future of open source design tools, like Penpot! · Shared by 143, including Neil Hart 💙
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figma
UX Collective
Frutiger: from a dot to the Paris airportUX Collective
20+ min read · Sep 30th · Balancing black and white, developing a universal language, and deconstructing what made Adrian Frutiger the designer’s designer · Shared by 98
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Systems thinking is what makes designers great — Tanner Christensentannerchristensen.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… · Shared by 1453, including Michelle Boisson
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We call this lens of thinking "systems thinking." It tends to separate the genuinely great designers from the pretty-great ones.
AIGA
Today’s Design Is Shaped by Likes. And That’s a ProblemAIGA
Jun 28th · Design has become intertwined with the most harmful dynamics of the social web · Shared by 977, including Stef Walter
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design
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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 · Shared by 944, including Jennifer Ouellette, Tamsen Webster, Message Strategist (she/her), Marcos
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daverupert.com
The Demo → Demo Loopdaverupert.com
2 min read · Jun 22nd · The secret to making successful creative products. · Shared by 913, including Trent Walton
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pketh.org
How I Buildpketh.org
3 min read · May 30th · My idea of a vacation might be weird to some. Sure, I like sunshine, I like beaches – but more than all that, I like making stuff with computers. · Shared by 866, including Gabriele, Mohamed Azazy
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nature
Adding is favoured over subtracting in problem solvingnature
4 min read · 2021-04-08 · People tend to solve problems by adding features. · Shared by 737, 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
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Moreover, people could assume that existing features are there for a reason, and so looking for additions would be more effective.
Vox
Dark patterns, the tricks websites use to make you say yes, explainedVox
10 min read · 2021-04-01 · How design can manipulate and coerce you into doing what websites want. · Shared by 727, including Stephanie A Kowalski, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, tcherno, Christian Hartmann, Marc Abrahams, Kat, Gabriele, Juan Felipe Correa Giraldo, Lluís Codina, Jessel Sookha, Matt Navarra, Josep M. Ganyet, Mauro Toselli, Ceferino Díaz
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“I think the internet has made it easier to industrialize the way in which we persuade and, in turn, manipulate and deceive each other,”
ArchDaily
How Colors Change the Perception of Interior SpacesArchDaily
5 min read · From 2020 · Some possibilities to change environments with colors or contrasts, confusing proportions. · Shared by 705, 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
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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 · Shared by 667, 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 🗯
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Culturally, we associate links with the color blue so much that in 2016, when Google changed its links to black, it created quite a disruption. 
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