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Working to work Despite the fact that I build websites for a living, I do a significant amount of work in my...
18th Jan 2014
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Working to work

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

18th Jan 2014
Despite the fact that I build websites for a living, I do a significant amount of work in my notebooks. Quick quiz: what does a web developer do for a living? If you said ‘make websites, duh,’ you’re technically correct (the best kind of correct). And you’re in good company; I’d...
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Design-by-wire There’s a lot of fear in the air. As AI gets better at design, it’s natural for designers to be...
2nd Mar 2023
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Design-by-wire

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

2nd Mar 2023
There’s a lot of fear in the air. As AI gets better at design, it’s natural for designers to be worried about their jobs. But I think the question — will AI replace designers? — is a waste of time. Humans have always invented technology to do their work for them and will continue...
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The new heroes of design I used to have several design heroes I looked up to. But when I changed from industrial design to...
21st Feb 2022
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The new heroes of design

from Koos Looijesteijn - Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

21st Feb 2022
I used to have several design heroes I looked up to. But when I changed from industrial design to digital...
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Designing A New UX Concept to Reduce Driver Distraction Since the arrival of the first iPhone, designers at car companies have tried to copy its minimalist...
1st Jun 2019
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Designing A New UX Concept to Reduce Driver Distraction

from The Turn Signal RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in design

1st Jun 2019
Since the arrival of the first iPhone, designers at car companies have tried to copy its minimalist look and interface in the interiors of…
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How We Designed a White-Label In-Car Infotainment System Over the past two years, we created an infotainment system as a product, here is a look inside our...
1st Aug 2024
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How We Designed a White-Label In-Car Infotainment System

from The Turn Signal RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in design

1st Aug 2024
Over the past two years, we created an infotainment system as a product, here is a look inside our design process.
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The hand and the brain Prescriptive feedback limits creative collaboration. I’ve seen it time and time again, but I’ve...
18th Nov 2020
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The hand and the brain

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

18th Nov 2020
Prescriptive feedback limits creative collaboration. I’ve seen it time and time again, but I’ve struggled to articulate the exact reasons and their remedies. Recently, though, I got some insight from an unusual source: a game of chess. Even though it wasn’t the last move, pawn...
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Everybody’s lost it, Part I My beloved veterinarian’s office apparently moved to a new office location without informing...
19th Sep 2025
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Everybody’s lost it, Part I

from Jeffrey Zeldman Presents [alt+shift+b] in design

19th Sep 2025
My beloved veterinarian’s office apparently moved to a new office location without informing customers. They also changed phone systems. The new phone system doesn’t work, and they didn’t leave a forwarding message on the old phone system. You call, leave a message, never hear...
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MTO open for donegals, liner and cashmere knits The seasonal made-to-order (MTO) offer that we do every spring - for delivery in early autumn - is...
1st Apr 2026
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MTO open for donegals, liner and cashmere knits

from Permanent Style [alt+shift+b] in design

1st Apr 2026
The seasonal made-to-order (MTO) offer that we do every spring - for delivery in early autumn - is now open and will close on April 26th, after the PS Pop-Up .  The big new things this year are a quilted liner for the donegal coats, a small ... > Read more
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Creating a simple blog in Python with Origami concepts
7th Oct 2025
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Creating a simple blog in Python with Origami concepts

from Jan Miksovsky’s blog [alt+shift+b] in design

7th Oct 2025
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Is Gesture Interaction a Valid Alternative To Touch Interaction in Cars? Are air gestures a valid alternative to existing interaction modes or is it just a gimmick?
1st Dec 2021
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Is Gesture Interaction a Valid Alternative To Touch Interaction in Cars?

from The Turn Signal RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in design

1st Dec 2021
Are air gestures a valid alternative to existing interaction modes or is it just a gimmick?
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Quickstop Groceries Based on the Quickstop Groceries and RST Video shopfronts from the 1994 Kevin Smith film Clerks....
9th Nov 2018
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Quickstop Groceries

from Joshua Smith [alt+shift+b] in design

9th Nov 2018
Based on the Quickstop Groceries and RST Video shopfronts from the 1994 Kevin Smith film Clerks. Created for the Culture 4 Cult Exhibition at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles, December, 2018. Scratchbuilt 1:25 Scale Miniature created from MDF, Wood, cardboard, plastic card, chalk...
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UX Roundup: AI is the Computer | Disrupting Filmed Entertainment | UX Trends | GOMS | Nano Banana 2... Summary: The AI is the computer | AI is disrupting the filmed entertainment industry | UX trends for...
2nd Mar 2026
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UX Roundup: AI is the Computer | Disrupting Filmed Entertainment | UX Trends | GOMS | Nano Banana 2 | Lyria 3

from Jakob Nielsen on UX [alt+shift+b] in design

2nd Mar 2026
Summary: The AI is the computer | AI is disrupting the filmed entertainment industry | UX trends for 2026 | AI can use the GOMS UI analysis method | New image model: Nano Banana 2 | New music model: Lyria 3
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How to Know When to Use AI Maybe this will help. In my circles, AI is either everything or it is nothing. It is the...
2nd May 2024
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How to Know When to Use AI

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

2nd May 2024
Maybe this will help. In my circles, AI is either everything or it is nothing. It is the thing to use in every case because if we don’t someone else will or it is the thing to never use because it is a sin against humanity. Capitalists and artists have almost always...
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How to generate color palettes for design systems It used to be easy to pick colors for design systems. Years ago, you could pick a handful of colors...
20th Apr 2024
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How to generate color palettes for design systems

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

20th Apr 2024
It used to be easy to pick colors for design systems. Years ago, you could pick a handful of colors to match your brand’s ethos, or start with an off-the-shelf palette (remember flatuicolors.com?). Each hue and shade served a purpose, and usually had a quirky name like “idea...
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Pilo Designed by 5.5, Paris.
30th Jun 2023
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Pilo

from Identity Designed [alt+shift+b] in design

30th Jun 2023
Designed by 5.5, Paris.
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Geek Mental Health Week This has been written as part of the Geek Mental Health Week – starting on Monday October 3rd 2016. ...
29th Sep 2016
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Geek Mental Health Week

from Sarah Parmenter [alt+shift+b] in design

29th Sep 2016
This has been written as part of the Geek Mental Health Week – starting on Monday October 3rd 2016.  You can hear me read this as an audioblog – 8 minutes. T his time of year is a strange one…
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Mind the gap: designing graphs with missing data Data-driven interfaces are on the rise. Financial District CEOs want to see a birds-eye view of...
12th Dec 2015
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Mind the gap: designing graphs with missing data

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

12th Dec 2015
Data-driven interfaces are on the rise. Financial District CEOs want to see a birds-eye view of their bottom line as much as Silicon Valley Co-founders want to watch their growth hackers hack. Each user has their own hopes and fears about data, but there’s one thing nobody wants...
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Periodical – 1 This is a semi-daily check-in. Experimental; likely to not actually be daily. Regular and...
11th Nov 2023
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Periodical – 1

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

11th Nov 2023
This is a semi-daily check-in. Experimental; likely to not actually be daily. Regular and short. The kids are in the bath, listening to the Yoto Daily, which aptly describes itself as a “morsel.” The host offers stray thoughts, short learnings, words of the day, fascinating...
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The Road Through Your Screen
2nd Jun 2023
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The Road Through Your Screen

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

2nd Jun 2023
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IAM FINE Mix While in Korea, I used Shazam to record all the songs played in coffee shops. Here’s a mix I put...
18th Sep 2015
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IAM FINE Mix

from Alex Baldwin [alt+shift+b] in design

18th Sep 2015
While in Korea, I used Shazam to record all the songs played in coffee shops. Here’s a mix I put together of all the discovered tracks.
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UI Density Interfaces are becoming less dense. I’m usually one to be skeptical of nostalgia and “we liked it...
20th May 2024
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UI Density

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

20th May 2024
Interfaces are becoming less dense. I’m usually one to be skeptical of nostalgia and “we liked it that way” bias, but comparing websites and applications of 2024 to their 2000s-era counterparts, the spreading out of software is hard to ignore. To explain this trend, and suggest...
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Coor Seongsu Flagship Store by ATELIER KHJ When planning a commercial space, it is not easy to sacrifice usable space. This is especially true...
2nd Dec 2025
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Coor Seongsu Flagship Store by ATELIER KHJ

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

2nd Dec 2025
When planning a commercial space, it is not easy to sacrifice usable space. This is especially true in areas with...
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How do you know what you like anymore? "Did you see Turtle Boss yet?" Tim asked over brunch. "I saw it," said Katie over a mouthful of...
27th Sep 2023
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How do you know what you like anymore?

from The DESK Magazine [alt+shift+b] in design

27th Sep 2023
"Did you see Turtle Boss yet?" Tim asked over brunch. "I saw it," said Katie over a mouthful of hash browns. "It was so freaking good." "Good?" said Sam. "You actually thought it was good?" "Yeah, it was incredible.
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Fixing the under-appreciated JavaScript Map class and using it to construct a build system
17th Nov 2025
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Fixing the under-appreciated JavaScript Map class and using it to construct a build system

from Jan Miksovsky’s blog [alt+shift+b] in design

17th Nov 2025
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visual journal – 2024 July 05 - September 30 Relative Dormancy Star Trek: TNG will always be my measure of a tablet. We’re still not...
30th Sep 2024
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visual journal – 2024 July 05 - September 30

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

30th Sep 2024
Relative Dormancy Star Trek: TNG will always be my measure of a tablet. We’re still not there yet. Paid a visit to the Field Museum in Chicago. Vibe.
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Periodical 20 – Localized Computing At a time of ubiquitous computing, there is still something to be gained from its...
16th Oct 2024
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Periodical 20 – Localized Computing

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

16th Oct 2024
At a time of ubiquitous computing, there is still something to be gained from its opposite. There was a time when computers were furniture. It’s easy to note all the reasons why it’s good that this is no longer so. After all, I remember how exciting it was to slide the first...
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Agile & anxiety Managing anxiety is a big part of my life. I have generalized anxiety:1 I constantly feel that...
14th May 2018
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Agile & anxiety

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

14th May 2018
Managing anxiety is a big part of my life. I have generalized anxiety:1 I constantly feel that something will go wrong at any moment. Often, I can’t even identify what I’m anxious about. Work is a significant contributor to my anxiety. When I’m at work (and often when I’m not), I...
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Who are design systems for? I’ve spent the past few days feeling an immense amount of FOMO. A major design conference called...
14th Dec 2018
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Who are design systems for?

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

14th Dec 2018
I’ve spent the past few days feeling an immense amount of FOMO. A major design conference called Clarity happened here in New York, and my twitter feed has been full of pictures and quotes from the very talented and articulate speakers. Lesson learned: go to more conferences. To...
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How I design ‘mobile first’
10th Feb 2014
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How I design ‘mobile first’

from Koos Looijesteijn [alt+shift+b] in design

10th Feb 2014
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Inclusive design on the Tokyo subway For the past two weeks, I’ve been exploring Tokyo. Until the last few days of 2018, I had never been...
13th Jan 2019
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Inclusive design on the Tokyo subway

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

13th Jan 2019
For the past two weeks, I’ve been exploring Tokyo. Until the last few days of 2018, I had never been to Tokyo — or, for that matter, any city as large as Tokyo. And while I have many many great memories of the city, I’m particularly eager to share my impressions of the Tokyo...
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5 things you need before raising your prices Many freelancers feel like they “deserve” more money, but are confused about how to make that...
11th Jul 2023
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5 things you need before raising your prices

from Nela Dunato Art & Design [alt+shift+b] in design

11th Jul 2023
Many freelancers feel like they “deserve” more money, but are confused about how to make that happen. The hard truth is, you may not be able to raise your prices overnight. But in this article I'll tell you exactly what you need to do in order to become appealing to higher-paying...
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Sticky Page Header Shadow on Scroll We've seen it plenty of times around the web where a website's page header follows us as we scroll...
2nd Apr 2023
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Sticky Page Header Shadow on Scroll

from Ryan Mulligan [alt+shift+b] in design

2nd Apr 2023
We've seen it plenty of times around the web where a website's page header follows us as we scroll down the page. CSS makes doing this a breeze with sticky positioning: .page-header { position: sticky; top: 0; } What if we desired something a little bit extra, like applying a...
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The Role of Doubt in Design At a recent happy hour, I struck up a conversation with a product manager. I told him I was a...
17th Jul 2019
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The Role of Doubt in Design

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

17th Jul 2019
At a recent happy hour, I struck up a conversation with a product manager. I told him I was a product designer, and he asked “one of the good ones, or one of the bad ones?” A designer on his team — a “bad one” — asked too many questions. Questions like “Why are we building this...
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Expansion artifacts The information age has been defined by bandwidth. The internet is limited by how much data we can...
20th Apr 2026
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Expansion artifacts

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

20th Apr 2026
The information age has been defined by bandwidth. The internet is limited by how much data we can squeeze into the narrow pipes of transmission infrastructure. So we invented compression, ways of representing the same object — a website, a picture, a song, a movie — within ever...
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Driving a Porsche Taycan for a Week, a UX review I rented the car from the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart. It turned out to be a brand new Porsche...
1st May 2022
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Driving a Porsche Taycan for a Week, a UX review

from The Turn Signal RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in design

1st May 2022
I rented the car from the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart. It turned out to be a brand new Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo 4S. It has a base…
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Our favorite portfolios launched with Semplice in July 2022 Every week, we handpick two portfolios created with Semplice to feature on our Showcase. These are...
1st Aug 2022
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Our favorite portfolios launched with Semplice in July 2022

from The DESK Magazine [alt+shift+b] in design

1st Aug 2022
Every week, we handpick two portfolios created with Semplice to feature on our Showcase. These are the best of the best, chosen by yours truly from hundreds of beautiful submissions
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WHERE TO FIND EXCEPTIONAL FLOWERS IN FIVE DIFFERENT CITIES Not only do fresh flowers bring joy and delight into a home, they’re also a symbol of important...
3rd Oct 2025
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WHERE TO FIND EXCEPTIONAL FLOWERS IN FIVE DIFFERENT CITIES

from Melissa Penfold [alt+shift+b] in design

3rd Oct 2025
Not only do fresh flowers bring joy and delight into a home, they’re also a symbol of important moments in life: they are the decoration of choice at weddings and funerals, and also the ultimate gift of love on Valentine’s Day. Their delicate nature, however, can make it tricky...
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The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stainer My recommendation: 7/10 More details and reviews on Amazon Focusing on the good you can do for...
1st Feb 2023
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The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stainer

from Oykun Yilmaz [alt+shift+b] in design

1st Feb 2023
My recommendation: 7/10 More details and reviews on Amazon Focusing on the good you can do for others than yourself was an interesting perspective to build habits. I found the practical tips about how to phrase some questions useful such as using "What..." instead of "Why.
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In pursuit of democracy Every time someone said 'democracy' in Congress.
3rd Nov 2025
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In pursuit of democracy

from The Pudding [alt+shift+b] in design

3rd Nov 2025
Every time someone said 'democracy' in Congress.
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Know What You Need Knowing what you need makes knowing what you want much easier. It is often said about successful...
16th Nov 2024
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Know What You Need

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

16th Nov 2024
Knowing what you need makes knowing what you want much easier. It is often said about successful people that they “know exactly what they want.” I’m sure this is true, because in our modern culture, where we are constantly made aware of new choices and possibilities, knowing...
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Beauty in the machine: Post-industrial design Has design become boring? A twitter thread by Sheehan Quirke (aka the Cultural Tutor) has been...
21st Sep 2022
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Beauty in the machine: Post-industrial design

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

21st Sep 2022
Has design become boring? A twitter thread by Sheehan Quirke (aka the Cultural Tutor) has been making the rounds lately, arguing just that. Quirke describes the many shortcomings of modern design: architecture, urban planning, industrial design, and interior design have all been...
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Audemars Piguet office by Studio Banana Studio Banana designed an avant-garde work environment at Audemars Piguet Manufacture Le Locle,...
4th Nov 2024
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Audemars Piguet office by Studio Banana

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

4th Nov 2024
Studio Banana designed an avant-garde work environment at Audemars Piguet Manufacture Le Locle, blending high-end manufacturing with biophilic design principles...
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I do care
8th Mar 2026
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I do care

from Koos Looijesteijn [alt+shift+b] in design

8th Mar 2026
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Blogging or posting on social media—what's better? I wrote about the benefits of blogging before. That was four years ago. Now I have some things to...
30th Oct 2022
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Blogging or posting on social media—what's better?

from Koos Looijesteijn - Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

30th Oct 2022
I wrote about the benefits of blogging before. That was four years ago. Now I have some things to add...
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STRAUSS CI FACTORY Engelbert Strauss is one of the world’s leading work brands. The CI Factory is a progressive...
1st Jul 2025
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STRAUSS CI FACTORY

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

1st Jul 2025
Engelbert Strauss is one of the world’s leading work brands. The CI Factory is a progressive production site and high-tech...
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The Human Story of the Open Web STOP ME if you’ve heard this one: The members of an extended family spend years curating a shared...
2nd Jul 2026
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The Human Story of the Open Web

from Jeffrey Zeldman Presents [alt+shift+b] in design

2nd Jul 2026
STOP ME if you’ve heard this one: The members of an extended family spend years curating a shared online photo album. Then the website they posted on vanishes, flushing their collective memories away forever. Or this: A Queer kid growing up isolated in Nebraska discovers a...
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Switching to variable fonts Ever since I first learned about variable fonts, I’ve wanted to use them in my own work. After...
3rd Mar 2019
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Switching to variable fonts

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

3rd Mar 2019
Ever since I first learned about variable fonts, I’ve wanted to use them in my own work. After learning that Source Serif and Inter both had variable versions, I started switching this site over to use them. Here’s how I implemented the change, and what I learned along the...
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The legacy of NFTs A new trend is sending shock waves through the world of art, collecting, finance, and...
29th Dec 2021
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The legacy of NFTs

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

29th Dec 2021
A new trend is sending shock waves through the world of art, collecting, finance, and investing. It’s the result of a perfect storm: one part scientific breakthrough, one part new financial paradigm, one part reflection of world events. Some people attribute it entirely to the...
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IKEA Bekant Standing Desk: Personal Review Since the lockdown, all of us at thoughtbot have been working from home. I took the opportunity to...
21st Sep 2020
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IKEA Bekant Standing Desk: Personal Review

from Luke Mitchell | Product Designer [alt+shift+b] in design

21st Sep 2020
Since the lockdown, all of us at thoughtbot have been working from home. I took the opportunity to upgrade my home setup. The biggest change was a new desk. I’ve wanted a sit-stand desk for a long time, this gave the perfect oppurtunity to try one. I settled on the IKEA Bekant,...
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Why Do New Cars Have Speed Limit Warnings, and Do They Work? New cars have one feature that's infuriating: a beep when exceeding the speed limit. Why are...
1st Oct 2024
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Why Do New Cars Have Speed Limit Warnings, and Do They Work?

from The Turn Signal RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in design

1st Oct 2024
New cars have one feature that's infuriating: a beep when exceeding the speed limit. Why are carmakers adding this and does it actually work?
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Jiangnan House Yangzhou Guangling by B.L.U.E. Architecture Studio Project Background — The project is located in the old town of Guangling Road in Yangzhou. It...
1st Oct 2025
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Jiangnan House Yangzhou Guangling by B.L.U.E. Architecture Studio

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

1st Oct 2025
Project Background — The project is located in the old town of Guangling Road in Yangzhou. It features architectural clusters...
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The Ma of a New Machine Fast AI requires slow thinking The current Silicon Valley flex is trading notes on your favorite new...
13th Apr 2026
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The Ma of a New Machine

from Scott Jenson [alt+shift+b] in design

13th Apr 2026
Fast AI requires slow thinking The current Silicon Valley flex is trading notes on your favorite new AI tools over lunch. Each week brings another one to explore. Some of these tools are very impressive; I’ve been able to reply to someone with an alternative UI design in less...
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The Last Time Life has as many ends as it has beginnings. What can an end teach us about making our...
15th Oct 2021
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The Last Time

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

15th Oct 2021
Life has as many ends as it has beginnings. What can an end teach us about making our world? Bye, Chris” were the last words a friend said to me. We had been talking on the phone for about an hour, catching up as we did back then, a few times each year. He said his goodbye as...
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Product thinking is a lifeline for struggling design systems Here’s a common problem: a design team creates a design system. They craft beautiful documentation,...
12th Dec 2019
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Product thinking is a lifeline for struggling design systems

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

12th Dec 2019
Here’s a common problem: a design team creates a design system. They craft beautiful documentation, crystal-clear guidelines, and meticulously organized files. But the design system never gains traction. Engineers don’t use it, and other designers quickly stop maintaining it. It...
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Display
3 weeks ago
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Display

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

3 weeks ago
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Swiping vs Tapping, What is Less Distracting to Drivers? Is it possible to make touch interaction as easy as with a physical control?
1st Feb 2022
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Swiping vs Tapping, What is Less Distracting to Drivers?

from The Turn Signal RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in design

1st Feb 2022
Is it possible to make touch interaction as easy as with a physical control?
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ISABELLA’S INCREDIBLE CHRISTMAS COLLECTION It’s a bargain hunter’s paradise at Isabella Walker-Smith’s bumper Christmas Collection which has...
29th Nov 2024
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ISABELLA’S INCREDIBLE CHRISTMAS COLLECTION

from Melissa Penfold [alt+shift+b] in design

29th Nov 2024
It’s a bargain hunter’s paradise at Isabella Walker-Smith’s bumper Christmas Collection which has stacks of table lamps in the style of Christian Liaigre, Kelly Wearstler, Ralph Lauren, and Aerin, from $80. There are quality travertine lamps, $280 a pair, and adorable rattan...
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From Pascal's Empty Room to Our Full Screens On the Ambient Entertainment Industrial Complex “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s...
10th Mar 2025
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From Pascal's Empty Room to Our Full Screens

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

10th Mar 2025
On the Ambient Entertainment Industrial Complex “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” Pascal’s observation from the 17th century feels less like historical philosophy and more like a diagnosis of our current condition. The...
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The Big Tough UX-AI Quiz 70 hard questions about the last year in UX and AI.
5th Jan 2026
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The Big Tough UX-AI Quiz

from Jakob Nielsen on UX [alt+shift+b] in design

5th Jan 2026
70 hard questions about the last year in UX and AI.
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Why side projects fail
31st Dec 2017
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Why side projects fail

from Koos Looijesteijn [alt+shift+b] in design

31st Dec 2017
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The rules and how to break them: Your socks should match your trousers Well, hello there. Welcome back to our series on the menswear ‘rules’, where we explain why these...
2nd Feb 2026
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The rules and how to break them: Your socks should match your trousers

from Permanent Style [alt+shift+b] in design

2nd Feb 2026
Well, hello there. Welcome back to our series on the menswear ‘rules’, where we explain why these conventions exist and as a result how they should be broken.  The key is not to follow any rule blindly. Instead, see these rules as advice fr... > Read more
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What it’s like to walk across Massachusetts A visually-aided journal of a very long walk home.
20th Oct 2025
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What it’s like to walk across Massachusetts

from The Pudding [alt+shift+b] in design

20th Oct 2025
A visually-aided journal of a very long walk home.
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Website Themes and Color Schemes Getting into the mode Before we begin, I'd like to preface this article with the following resources...
1st Feb 2022
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Website Themes and Color Schemes

from Ryan Mulligan [alt+shift+b] in design

1st Feb 2022
Getting into the mode Before we begin, I'd like to preface this article with the following resources that were helpful guides on my theming quest. They explain a lot of the intricacies of setting up dark mode and I recommend reading them before my own. A Complete Guide to Dark...
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A clean, peaceful place to read your articles without distractions The people who use mymind typically have an intellectual side. They like to think, learn and...
20th Apr 2022
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A clean, peaceful place to read your articles without distractions

from The DESK Magazine [alt+shift+b] in design

20th Apr 2022
The people who use mymind typically have an intellectual side. They like to think, learn and challenge themselves on their own time. So we knew this brand new feature was not optional: Reader Mode.
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Reclaiming the City, Reclaiming Words: Póli Gynaikón – City of Women Contributed by Maria Paganopoulou Photo: Maria Paganopoulou. Delfys Feminist Archive,...
6th Oct 2022
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Reclaiming the City, Reclaiming Words: Póli Gynaikón – City of Women

from Fonts In Use – Blog Only [alt+shift+b] in design

6th Oct 2022
Contributed by Maria Paganopoulou Photo: Maria Paganopoulou. Delfys Feminist Archive, Athens. License: All Rights Reserved. Covers of the magazine Póli Ginaikón Marsha Rowe, editor of the groundbreaking feminist magazine Spare Rib, famously recalled: “Suddenly, words...
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The new age of software If you think about it, there is *a lot* of software that hasn’t been built across hundreds of...
a week ago
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The new age of software

from The DESK Magazine [alt+shift+b] in design

a week ago
If you think about it, there is *a lot* of software that hasn’t been built across hundreds of industries because our best paid designers and engineers were occupied with building social networks and ad networks. "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make
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The time for designers to learn to code is now I often use the analogy that when we design for print, what are we doing over and over again? Doing...
12th Jul 2024
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The time for designers to learn to code is now

from Luke Mitchell | Product Designer [alt+shift+b] in design

12th Jul 2024
I often use the analogy that when we design for print, what are we doing over and over again? Doing proof prints. Why then when designing websites (or apps) are we not getting in to the browser as quickly as possible, rather than creating interactive pictures of websites in...
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Media Consumption (Jan 2021) >_ Summary Read 11 books (2456 min, +111% MoM) and 26 articles (-46%) Listened to 263 songs (-59%)...
1st Feb 2021
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Media Consumption (Jan 2021)

from julian.digital [alt+shift+b] in design

1st Feb 2021
>_ Summary Read 11 books (2456 min, +111% MoM) and 26 articles (-46%) Listened to 263 songs (-59%) and 15 podcasts (749 min, -43%) Watched 1 movie (107 min, -54%), 7 soccer games (835 min, -.6%) and 21 TV episodes (1079 min, +40%) Played 0 board games (0 min, -100%) and 1 video...
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Why we built an anti-social tool This article was originally intended for the upcoming mymind.com blog, but it feels so personal to...
7th Jul 2022
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Why we built an anti-social tool

from The DESK Magazine [alt+shift+b] in design

7th Jul 2022
This article was originally intended for the upcoming mymind.com blog, but it feels so personal to me, I found it fitting to share here with you.
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What google search shows us about the future of product design You can read this article on UX Booth.
10th Sep 2019
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What google search shows us about the future of product design

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

10th Sep 2019
You can read this article on UX Booth.
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Inverted Media Queries and Breakpoints The occasional breakpoint Nowadays I lean on modern CSS solutions, fluid layout patterns, and...
5th Jul 2022
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Inverted Media Queries and Breakpoints

from Ryan Mulligan [alt+shift+b] in design

5th Jul 2022
The occasional breakpoint Nowadays I lean on modern CSS solutions, fluid layout patterns, and intrinsic sizing over viewport dimension-based media queries – typically referred to as breakpoints – that adapt a design at particular screen sizes. Let's not forget that container...
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What it means to design a platform After four months of parental leave, I came back to work and noticed something different. Many of...
11th Jan 2023
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What it means to design a platform

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

11th Jan 2023
After four months of parental leave, I came back to work and noticed something different. Many of the words, phrases, acronyms, and figures of speech I took for granted no longer held the same meanings. Specifically, the word “platform:” before my time off, I would breeze over it...
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Star Wars movie posters from Hungary Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: movieposters.ha.com Image: Heritage Auctions. License: All...
4th May 2025
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Star Wars movie posters from Hungary

from Fonts In Use – Blog Only [alt+shift+b] in design

4th May 2025
Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: movieposters.ha.com Image: Heritage Auctions. License: All Rights Reserved. Csillagok háborúja (Star Wars), 1979. The custom acute accents are simple squares. The secondary typeface is ITC Avant Garde Gothic. More info on...
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How I collect & create bookmarks I have been collecting bookmarks for quite a while, as you read this there are 1052 of them, which...
15th Jun 2024
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How I collect & create bookmarks

from Luke Mitchell | Product Designer [alt+shift+b] in design

15th Jun 2024
I have been collecting bookmarks for quite a while, as you read this there are 1052 of them, which shocks me, they really build up fast. What I haven’t done yet is explain how I collect them and how they end up on this site. Ethos Describing my ethos properly is probably another...
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The Greatest Game You’ve Never Heard of Welcome to Crokinole, the greatest game you’ve never heard of.
16th Oct 2024
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The Greatest Game You’ve Never Heard of

from The Pudding [alt+shift+b] in design

16th Oct 2024
Welcome to Crokinole, the greatest game you’ve never heard of.
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The Fifty-Fifty Split and Overflow The fifty-fifty split—or 50/50 for a dash of brevity—is a classic layout pattern where two elements...
19th Feb 2024
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The Fifty-Fifty Split and Overflow

from Ryan Mulligan [alt+shift+b] in design

19th Feb 2024
The fifty-fifty split—or 50/50 for a dash of brevity—is a classic layout pattern where two elements occupy the same amount of inline space inside a row. These two elements will stack once it becomes too narrow to properly display them side by side. Both flexbox and CSS grid can...
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Design and machine learning Machine learning is a powerful tool that drives everything from curated content recommendations to...
30th Oct 2019
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Design and machine learning

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

30th Oct 2019
Machine learning is a powerful tool that drives everything from curated content recommendations to optimized user interfaces. With Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon leading the charge, machine learning is becoming deeply integrated into everyday product experiences. This means...
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Easy steps to start investing in the stock market Invest in long term, Diversify, Don't stress to time the market, Stay calm ... It is not that...
16th Jun 2024
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Easy steps to start investing in the stock market

from Oykun Yilmaz [alt+shift+b] in design

16th Jun 2024
Invest in long term, Diversify, Don't stress to time the market, Stay calm ... It is not that complicated.
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Beyond 10× In the January 1968 issue of computer science trade magazine Communications of the ACM, a paper...
1st Nov 2021
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Beyond 10×

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

1st Nov 2021
In the January 1968 issue of computer science trade magazine Communications of the ACM, a paper appeared under the unassuming title “Exploratory experimental studies comparing online and offline programming performance.” “Programming is a multibillion dollar industry,” the paper...
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HAVV by Widarto Impact OVERVIEW Soy milk commands 37.4% of the $23.8 billion plant-based milk market, holding the largest...
5th May 2026
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HAVV by Widarto Impact

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

5th May 2026
OVERVIEW Soy milk commands 37.4% of the $23.8 billion plant-based milk market, holding the largest share of any plant milk...
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Generative art Open Graph preview images I like writing and sharing essays on twitter. I especially like the way the link previews look when...
29th Oct 2022
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Generative art Open Graph preview images

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

29th Oct 2022
I like writing and sharing essays on twitter. I especially like the way the link previews look when they have images that stand out in the timeline. In the past, I’ve created illustrations for each of my posts. But I have two problems: 1. Creating illustrations takes time, and 2....
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How to migrate passwords from Proton Pass to Apple Passwords
4 weeks ago
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How to migrate passwords from Proton Pass to Apple Passwords

from Koos Looijesteijn [alt+shift+b] in design

4 weeks ago
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phenom israel Phenom is a global HR technology company that delivers a single-platform solution and...
2nd May 2024
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phenom israel

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

2nd May 2024
Phenom is a global HR technology company that delivers a single-platform solution and hyper-personalized experiences for candidates, recruiters, and employees....
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Overcoming Automotive Overconsumption Through Design The average car consists of around 30,000 parts. They are built up from many different resources...
1st May 2019
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Overcoming Automotive Overconsumption Through Design

from The Turn Signal RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in design

1st May 2019
The average car consists of around 30,000 parts. They are built up from many different resources that come from all over the world. These…
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Full-bleed Table Scrolling on Narrow Viewports I found the following to be a rather decent solution for having HTML tables overflow the inline...
20th May 2023
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Full-bleed Table Scrolling on Narrow Viewports

from Ryan Mulligan [alt+shift+b] in design

20th May 2023
I found the following to be a rather decent solution for having HTML tables overflow the inline edges of smaller/tighter/narrow viewports. Try resizing the width of the browser window if viewing this page on a larger screen. Open CodePen demo Notice that the table...
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Replication Is Not Innovation AI’s efficiency gains don’t justify trillion-dollar valuations. The economy is both thriving and...
2nd Feb 2026
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Replication Is Not Innovation

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

2nd Feb 2026
AI’s efficiency gains don’t justify trillion-dollar valuations. The economy is both thriving and failing, depending on where you’re standing. The stock market remains strong, driven almost entirely by the valuations of seven companies. Meanwhile, most people experience a daily...
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The State of UX Design of Chinese Car Brands An in-depth look at the booming Chinese car industry and its UX design trends
1st Jul 2020
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The State of UX Design of Chinese Car Brands

from The Turn Signal RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in design

1st Jul 2020
An in-depth look at the booming Chinese car industry and its UX design trends
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Flashes Over the Atlantic – A Sighting, and Its Explanation At 3:30 in the morning on Thursday, July 9th, 2026, I woke in a rented house on Oak Island, North...
9th Jul 2026
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Flashes Over the Atlantic – A Sighting, and Its Explanation

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

9th Jul 2026
At 3:30 in the morning on Thursday, July 9th, 2026, I woke in a rented house on Oak Island, North Carolina, and felt compelled to go downstairs and out onto the back deck, which faced the ocean. The night was exceptionally clear. I spent about twenty minutes looking up, finding...
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A New Concept for Usable Touch Interaction in Cars When looking around in traffic, the number of people being distracted by their phones and...
1st Apr 2020
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A New Concept for Usable Touch Interaction in Cars

from The Turn Signal RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in design

1st Apr 2020
When looking around in traffic, the number of people being distracted by their phones and infotainment systems is alarming. The latter is a…
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There are no individual contributors in design This term, that I believe comes from software development, is taking hold in other fields too:...
3rd Jun 2021
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There are no individual contributors in design

from Koos Looijesteijn - Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

3rd Jun 2021
This term, that I believe comes from software development, is taking hold in other fields too: individual contributor. I don’t...
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Amouage Zhang Yuan In the heart of Shanghai’s historic Zhang Yuan district, Paris-based agency Héroïne has redefined...
1st Aug 2025
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Amouage Zhang Yuan

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

1st Aug 2025
In the heart of Shanghai’s historic Zhang Yuan district, Paris-based agency Héroïne has redefined luxury retail with The Sillage, a...
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Stop brainstorming “Brainstorming” — the problem-solving technique of coming up with as many ideas as possible in a...
18th Jan 2022
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Stop brainstorming

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

18th Jan 2022
“Brainstorming” — the problem-solving technique of coming up with as many ideas as possible in a short period of time — has been showing up on a lot of my leadership meeting agendas lately. Many of my peers are employing brainstorming in the belief that, as thought-leading...
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THE 23 MOST DEFINING PIECES OF FURNITURE FROM THE LAST 100 YEARS How do we define furniture? It might seem like a silly question, but it’s one that kept coming up in...
20th Jan 2025
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THE 23 MOST DEFINING PIECES OF FURNITURE FROM THE LAST 100 YEARS

from Melissa Penfold [alt+shift+b] in design

20th Jan 2025
How do we define furniture? It might seem like a silly question, but it’s one that kept coming up in October of last year, when, in a conference room on the 15th floor of The New York Times building, six experts — the architects and interior designers Rafael de...
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Is the Love Song Dying? Is love dead in pop music? We checked all 5,141 Top 10 hits since 1958.
11th Nov 2024
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Is the Love Song Dying?

from The Pudding [alt+shift+b] in design

11th Nov 2024
Is love dead in pop music? We checked all 5,141 Top 10 hits since 1958.
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How much YOU is in YOUR work? I started my design career by accident and never enjoyed a classical educational foundation in...
29th Apr 2024
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How much YOU is in YOUR work?

from The DESK Magazine [alt+shift+b] in design

29th Apr 2024
I started my design career by accident and never enjoyed a classical educational foundation in anything I'm doing professionally. As a result, my approach always had a bit more of a "punk" approach.
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festive season + site updates hola 〜 ૮ ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶ ა ❄️ hope you’re having a nice december, wherever (and whenever) you’re reading...
11th Dec 2025
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festive season + site updates

from ramsés cabello [alt+shift+b] in design

11th Dec 2025
hola 〜 ૮ ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶ ა ❄️ hope you’re having a nice december, wherever (and whenever) you’re reading this! hopefully not too cold nor warm 〜 christmas tree · november 2025 · iphone this year i listened to a lot of music and bought a handful of CDs some of...
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Periodical 15 All art is a copy of something. Hello from the art room. My older kiddo and I watched a short...
2nd Feb 2024
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Periodical 15

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

2nd Feb 2024
All art is a copy of something. Hello from the art room. My older kiddo and I watched a short documentary about artist and engineer Peter Vogel this morning. I learned about him from flipping through an old issue of OMNI from the early 80s which reviewed a gallery showing...
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Good Job Games Offices by Jeyan Ülkü Architects Good Job Games is a mobile gaming technology company characterized by a predominantly youthful...
2nd Dec 2024
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Good Job Games Offices by Jeyan Ülkü Architects

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

2nd Dec 2024
Good Job Games is a mobile gaming technology company characterized by a predominantly youthful workforce. Right from the beginning we...
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How can selling services be easy? I find selling easy, but it has nothing to do with my “ability to sell”. I’m not a good sales...
17th Feb 2023
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How can selling services be easy?

from Nela Dunato Art & Design [alt+shift+b] in design

17th Feb 2023
I find selling easy, but it has nothing to do with my “ability to sell”. I’m not a good sales person. I’d hate doing a sales job for a living. But I happen to do a lot of other things that remove all the pressure from the sales conversation. I do the hard work in the marketing...
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Promoting a design and development tool through comics
8th Jan 2026
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Promoting a design and development tool through comics

from Jan Miksovsky’s blog [alt+shift+b] in design

8th Jan 2026
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Markdown is really good I was reading Manu’s post about ‘old tech’ and suddenly thought, markdown is really, really...
4th Feb 2025
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Markdown is really good

from Luke Mitchell | Product Designer [alt+shift+b] in design

4th Feb 2025
I was reading Manu’s post about ‘old tech’ and suddenly thought, markdown is really, really good. What is it? Markdown is a markup (get it?) language which aims to make formatting text as easy as possible, while still being easy to read. Markdown can be processed into HTML, which...
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Design can be free (part 3) This is the third in a series. The first two showed how confusing products could be fixed with...
7th Feb 2023
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Design can be free (part 3)

from Scott Jenson [alt+shift+b] in design

7th Feb 2023
This is the third in a series. The first two showed how confusing products could be fixed with fairly simple changes. It’s often possible to significantly improve a product even using the same hardware. This one tackles a much trickier problem: improving the quality of hardware....
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THE MOST THOUGHTFUL GIFTS THAT NO ONE ELSE WILL GIVE We’re always here to help you find gifts that elicit “you really know me!” enthusiasm, even from the...
2nd Dec 2024
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THE MOST THOUGHTFUL GIFTS THAT NO ONE ELSE WILL GIVE

from Melissa Penfold [alt+shift+b] in design

2nd Dec 2024
We’re always here to help you find gifts that elicit “you really know me!” enthusiasm, even from the normally taciturn. This year, we aimed higher, aspiring to choose items with such eternal appeal, and of such high quality, that some might become heirlooms—used and loved by both...
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Assertive Instincts Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light...
6th Jan 2020
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Assertive Instincts

from Scott Jenson [alt+shift+b] in design

6th Jan 2020
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in. Isaac Asimov It all started while on vacation with my wife. We were driving a rental car to a remote location in Washington state. The car had a safety feature that...
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Building as gardening Although I've never had a garden
9th Apr 2025
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Building as gardening

from Product Identity [alt+shift+b] in design

9th Apr 2025
Although I've never had a garden
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I was wrong about AI Coding I'm mostly anti-AI person since the AI hype started years ago. However with time I realized that I...
26th Mar 2025
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I was wrong about AI Coding

from Fatih Arslan [alt+shift+b] in design

26th Mar 2025
I'm mostly anti-AI person since the AI hype started years ago. However with time I realized that I misjudged AI Coding — Here’s Why.
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Towards better creative feedback Creative work — be it designing, writing, coding, or managing — is a collaborative practice. At...
7th Jan 2015
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Towards better creative feedback

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

7th Jan 2015
Creative work — be it designing, writing, coding, or managing — is a collaborative practice. At least two parties are always involved: The maker (a designer, developer, or manager) on one end, and the audience on the other.1 Feedback between the maker and the audience is...
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Gestalt Principles of Design – Symmetry We tend to perceive symmetrical elements as being connected, even if they are not. The Gestalt...
7th Jul 2023
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Gestalt Principles of Design – Symmetry

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

7th Jul 2023
We tend to perceive symmetrical elements as being connected, even if they are not. The Gestalt Principles of Design are a set of concepts and guidelines drawn from gestalt psychology, which theorizes that the mind tends to process organized groups of things as a whole,...
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Responsive roadmaps Shane Parrish’s essay The Map is Not the Territory begins: The map of reality is not reality. Even...
8th May 2019
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Responsive roadmaps

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

8th May 2019
Shane Parrish’s essay The Map is Not the Territory begins: The map of reality is not reality. Even the best maps are imperfect. That’s because they are reductions of what they represent. The same is true for product roadmaps. Understanding and applying Parrish’s mental model is...
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Consequentialism Consequentialism became the most popular approach to ethics following the Age of Enlightenment....
10th May 2020
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Consequentialism

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

10th May 2020
Consequentialism became the most popular approach to ethics following the Age of Enlightenment. Writers in the late 18th and early 19th century saw how strict, rule-based, duty-bound theories of ethics resulted in contradictory and often destructive behavior. After Napoleon’s...
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A digital tool built like a physical product? Does it seem like there's more bad TV these days? More mediocre writing? More low quality...
8th May 2023
91

A digital tool built like a physical product?

from The DESK Magazine [alt+shift+b] in design

8th May 2023
Does it seem like there's more bad TV these days? More mediocre writing? More low quality clothing?
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Fifteen Clocks On clocks as interfaces to time, and a decade measured in rotations of a single hand. For our...
31st Jan 2026
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Fifteen Clocks

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

31st Jan 2026
On clocks as interfaces to time, and a decade measured in rotations of a single hand. For our first wedding anniversary, I gave my wife a clock that measures years. It’s called The Present, created by Scott Thrift, a designer whose work I’d followed for some time. I’d invested...
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Communicate Value over Long Hours of Work as a Designer The tagline for my newsletter goes as below: Grow As Designer | Helping Designers Grow Their Value...
23rd May 2023
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Communicate Value over Long Hours of Work as a Designer

from Oykun Yilmaz [alt+shift+b] in design

23rd May 2023
The tagline for my newsletter goes as below: Grow As Designer | Helping Designers Grow Their Value and Income. It's a bit unclear, right? What the heck is "Value" anyway? How can you grow it? Well, there are many meanings to it and ways to grow it for a designer, but let's focus...
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What We Do When We See What does it even mean to design when perception is reality? Do we all ever see the same...
5th Nov 2021
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What We Do When We See

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

5th Nov 2021
What does it even mean to design when perception is reality? Do we all ever see the same thing? Visual Intelligence, a wonderful book about seeing and clarity, Amy Herman begins with the story of Derreck Kayongo. Kayongo had just stepped into the shower in his hotel room...
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The Fundamentals Problem Anyone can make something that looks designed, but that doesn’t mean that design has happened. A...
3rd Nov 2025
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The Fundamentals Problem

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

3rd Nov 2025
Anyone can make something that looks designed, but that doesn’t mean that design has happened. A few months ago, a client was reviewing a landing page design with my team. They had created it themselves using a page builder tool — one of those platforms that integrate content...
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The eye of God My doctor sends me to Brooklyn for an abdominal aortic aneurysm screening. As instructed, I fast for...
11th Jul 2025
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The eye of God

from Jeffrey Zeldman Presents [alt+shift+b] in design

11th Jul 2025
My doctor sends me to Brooklyn for an abdominal aortic aneurysm screening. As instructed, I fast for six hours beforehand. I don’t even brush my teeth, for fear of swallowing toothpaste and screwing up the test. I wear a Covid-era face mask to avoid breathing on anyone. The...
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You're making me buy a new phone My iPhone SE 2016 is a good one. It’s easy to handle with one hand. The screen is more than...
6th Feb 2023
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You're making me buy a new phone

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6th Feb 2023
My iPhone SE 2016 is a good one. It’s easy to handle with one hand. The screen is more than...
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Bringing the Coolest Car of the Carrera Panamericana to Life Restoring an amazing picture from the 1953 Carrera Panamericana
1st Sep 2019
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Bringing the Coolest Car of the Carrera Panamericana to Life

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1st Sep 2019
Restoring an amazing picture from the 1953 Carrera Panamericana
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Who is responsible for the impact of innovative products?
7th Dec 2023
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Who is responsible for the impact of innovative products?

from Koos Looijesteijn [alt+shift+b] in design

7th Dec 2023
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Design better data tables Poor tables. Where did they go wrong? Table tetris After being the bread and butter of the web for...
3rd Aug 2016
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Design better data tables

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

3rd Aug 2016
Poor tables. Where did they go wrong? Table tetris After being the bread and butter of the web for most of its early history, tables were cast aside by many designers for newer, trendier layouts. But while they might be making fewer appearances on the web these days, data tables...
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Beautiful mistakes I recently saw a short video about how the red wax seals on the famous Maker's Mark whiskey bottles...
27th May 2026
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Beautiful mistakes

from The DESK Magazine [alt+shift+b] in design

27th May 2026
I recently saw a short video about how the red wax seals on the famous Maker's Mark whiskey bottles get applied. They're still dipped and sealed by hand which makes it special because no two bottles are exactly alike. But what I didn't know
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Ralph Lauren cap: How great things age There have been a few companies popping up in recent years making higher-end baseball caps. Both the...
3rd Nov 2025
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Ralph Lauren cap: How great things age

from Permanent Style [alt+shift+b] in design

3rd Nov 2025
There have been a few companies popping up in recent years making higher-end baseball caps. Both the plain, dull, luxury ones that became a trend in the wake of Succession, and ones that look exactly like a traditional cap, just higher quali... > Read more
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AX, DX, UX Matt Biilman, CEO of Netlify, published an interesting piece called “Introducing AX: Why Agent...
2nd Mar 2025
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AX, DX, UX

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

2nd Mar 2025
Matt Biilman, CEO of Netlify, published an interesting piece called “Introducing AX: Why Agent Experience Matters” where he argues the coming importance of a new “X” (experience) in software: the agent experience, meaning the experience your users’ AI agents will have as...
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The case for being ignorant I am sure you know this feeling. You find a new book that you absolutely love. A new movie, a new TV...
14th May 2024
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The case for being ignorant

from The DESK Magazine [alt+shift+b] in design

14th May 2024
I am sure you know this feeling. You find a new book that you absolutely love. A new movie, a new TV series or even a new hobby such as cycling or designing. It can be anything and everything.
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Art Day: How to make time for creative projects while busy with client work Self-employed creative professionals have significantly more control over our schedules than those...
12th Nov 2024
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Art Day: How to make time for creative projects while busy with client work

from Nela Dunato Art & Design [alt+shift+b] in design

12th Nov 2024
Self-employed creative professionals have significantly more control over our schedules than those employed in other organizations, but finding time for our own art can still be a challenge. While I was writing and editing my first book, I started using a technique that helped me...
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Style Review Donut dessert lollipop dragée pudding marzipan jelly Danish icing cake sugar plum chocolate bar...
5th Nov 2021
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Style Review

from Ryan Mulligan [alt+shift+b] in design

5th Nov 2021
Donut dessert lollipop dragée pudding marzipan jelly Danish icing cake sugar plum chocolate bar candy canes macaroon pie. Bear claw bear claw biscuit fruitcake icing brownie. Jelly-o pudding tart cake ice cream jelly-o. Danish sugar plum chocolate cake wafer cake pudding sweet...
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Mountainview Brewing Designed by Memory, Salt Spring Island.
4th Nov 2024
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Mountainview Brewing

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4th Nov 2024
Designed by Memory, Salt Spring Island.
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Your lifestyle won’t save the world
1st Sep 2024
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Your lifestyle won’t save the world

from Koos Looijesteijn [alt+shift+b] in design

1st Sep 2024
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Who believes in an afterlife? A room of thousands of humans wrestling with what comes after it all.
3 weeks ago
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Who believes in an afterlife?

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3 weeks ago
A room of thousands of humans wrestling with what comes after it all.
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Organizations are ant colonies After I had played Universal Paperclips for a couple of hours, I thought I understood the game’s...
7th Oct 2023
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Organizations are ant colonies

from Koos Looijesteijn - Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

7th Oct 2023
After I had played Universal Paperclips for a couple of hours, I thought I understood the game’s message. I put...
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Neon Genesis Evangelion Contributed by Peiran Tan Source: www.evangelion.co.jp ©カラー／Project Eva....
17th Oct 2019
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Neon Genesis Evangelion

from Fonts In Use – Blog Only [alt+shift+b] in design

17th Oct 2019
Contributed by Peiran Tan Source: www.evangelion.co.jp ©カラー／Project Eva. ©カラー／EVA製作委員会　©カラー. License: All Rights Reserved. Created and directed by Hideaki Anno, Neon Genesis Evangelion (新世紀エヴァンゲリオン, often abbreviated as NGE or simply EVA) is a Japanese media...
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How to dress like Luciano Barbera Luciano Barbera is a menswear icon for many reasons. For me, however, the most important is that he...
1st May 2026
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How to dress like Luciano Barbera

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1st May 2026
Luciano Barbera is a menswear icon for many reasons. For me, however, the most important is that he always emphasised dressing comfortably, appropriately and in an understated manner.  Dressing comfortably means eschewing the uber-tight suit... > Read more
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Mixed Reality: The Future of Automotive UX Prototyping Can mixed reality make it easier to test and iterate on automotive user interfaces?
1st Mar 2024
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Mixed Reality: The Future of Automotive UX Prototyping

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1st Mar 2024
Can mixed reality make it easier to test and iterate on automotive user interfaces?
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Jo Malone Candle
17th Jan 2022
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Jo Malone Candle

from Sarah Parmenter [alt+shift+b] in design

17th Jan 2022
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Center Items in First Row with CSS Grid Imagine the following section on a website: A collection of elements, like a series of cards with...
19th Aug 2024
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Center Items in First Row with CSS Grid

from Ryan Mulligan [alt+shift+b] in design

19th Aug 2024
Imagine the following section on a website: A collection of elements, like a series of cards with marketing information, are presented in a grid display. The elements are arranged in rows of three. When there are an odd number of elements left over, they will be center-aligned...
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A not so gentle intro to web3 Almost everything web3-related is a grift based on getting people to buy crypto. Although the...
30th Dec 2021
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A not so gentle intro to web3

from Koos Looijesteijn - Everything [alt+shift+b] in design

30th Dec 2021
Almost everything web3-related is a grift based on getting people to buy crypto. Although the distributed part of blockchain technology...
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It started as a blog post; now it's a magazine Niche design is finally available
18th Sep 2025
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It started as a blog post; now it's a magazine

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18th Sep 2025
Niche design is finally available
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Persuasion Good design requires persuasion. might be persuasive on its own; the notion that a thing “just...
15th Apr 2023
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Persuasion

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

15th Apr 2023
Good design requires persuasion. might be persuasive on its own; the notion that a thing “just works” implies that its function, however novel, is an intuitive leap from its form. This is what Apple is known for. Apple products are renowned for their simplicity, which is what...
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An in-depth look at the UX Design of the Porsche Taycan Last month, Porsche unveiled the Taycan. It is the first electric car from an established car...
1st Nov 2019
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An in-depth look at the UX Design of the Porsche Taycan

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1st Nov 2019
Last month, Porsche unveiled the Taycan. It is the first electric car from an established car company with specs that challenge Tesla's…
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I sold Big Timer Five months ago I sold my countdown timer web app, Big Timer! I never really announced that, so...
18th Apr 2022
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I sold Big Timer

from Koos Looijesteijn - Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

18th Apr 2022
Five months ago I sold my countdown timer web app, Big Timer! I never really announced that, so here’s what...
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UX Roundup: User Research Game | AI Photo Recommendations | AI Helps TA | Teaching Metacognition |... User researchers as role-playing game classes | AI posture recommendation feature in Huawei Pura 90...
4th May 2026
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UX Roundup: User Research Game | AI Photo Recommendations | AI Helps TA | Teaching Metacognition | AI Shorts | 100 TW Compute | Happy Horse

from Jakob Nielsen on UX [alt+shift+b] in design

4th May 2026
User researchers as role-playing game classes | AI posture recommendation feature in Huawei Pura 90 phones | AI helps teaching assistants provide better feedback to students | AI as a metacognitive coach | Recommending an entertaining short AI film | SpaceX’s plan for 100 TW...
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Earning Attention This is something I say in the course of nearly every conversation I have with every agency design...
6th Apr 2026
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Earning Attention

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

6th Apr 2026
This is something I say in the course of nearly every conversation I have with every agency design team I consult. I remind them, over and over again, that marketing is two kinds of persuasion: FIRST, persuading a person to actually pay attention, and THEN, persuading them of...
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What is a brand? A few weeks ago, I jumped into a new job as the head of a design team at a startup called...
4th Mar 2020
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What is a brand?

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

4th Mar 2020
A few weeks ago, I jumped into a new job as the head of a design team at a startup called SimpleHealth. One of my first tasks is to kick off a big brand update. Full creative control, clear product/market fit, a long timeline — this is going to be a breeze. Right? Only, I asked...
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Thoughts on Clubhouse Today marks the 77th day since I got onboarded to Clubhouse. Clubhouse, for those not familiar with...
21st Dec 2020
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Thoughts on Clubhouse

from julian.digital [alt+shift+b] in design

21st Dec 2020
Today marks the 77th day since I got onboarded to Clubhouse. Clubhouse, for those not familiar with it, is essentially an audio-first social network. It’s kind of a mix between Reddit and a podcast. An interactive radio show. The app lets you jump into different chat rooms and...
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Detect JavaScript Support in CSS I had been aware of the scripting CSS media feature but I was still under the impression that...
20th Apr 2024
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Detect JavaScript Support in CSS

from Ryan Mulligan [alt+shift+b] in design

20th Apr 2024
I had been aware of the scripting CSS media feature but I was still under the impression that cross-browser support was lacking. What a pleasant surprise to discover that it has been available in all modern browsers as of December 2023 according to caniuse.com. With this feature,...
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Research, empathy, simplicity, speed photo by Toa Heftiba Earlier today, I read a thought-provoking tweet from John Maeda: "Salt Fat Acid...
17th Oct 2018
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Research, empathy, simplicity, speed

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

17th Oct 2018
photo by Toa Heftiba Earlier today, I read a thought-provoking tweet from John Maeda: "Salt Fat Acid Heat" as the perfect set of ingredients for a meal makes me wonder what a similar set of essential ingredients might be for digital products. https://t.co/z1w1PUyQsD — John Maeda...
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Brooklyn Bodega Based on 127 Albany Avenue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NYC. Scratchbuilt 1:20 Scale Miniature...
1st Oct 2018
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Brooklyn Bodega

from Joshua Smith [alt+shift+b] in design

1st Oct 2018
Based on 127 Albany Avenue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NYC. Scratchbuilt 1:20 Scale Miniature created from MDF, Wood, cardboard, plastic card, chalk pastels, spraypaint, wire, plastruct. Created for Urban Art Fair, Paris, 2018. Photo Credit: Ben Neale The post Brooklyn Bodega...
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Notes on handling events in Web Components My click-spark web component was a fun, silly project at best. Yet I've seen it's had some love...
27th Jul 2024
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Notes on handling events in Web Components

from Ryan Mulligan [alt+shift+b] in design

27th Jul 2024
My click-spark web component was a fun, silly project at best. Yet I've seen it's had some love since being shared. So why not publish it as an npm package? No better time than the present, some say. I had done a major refactor before publishing, the most notable was that the...
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What google search shows us about the future of product design You can read this article on UX Booth.
10th Sep 2019
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What google search shows us about the future of product design

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

10th Sep 2019
You can read this article on UX Booth.
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Bát Tràng Museum Designed by M — N Associates, Ho Chi Minh City.
4th Feb 2024
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Bát Tràng Museum

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4th Feb 2024
Designed by M — N Associates, Ho Chi Minh City.
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The Citroën Ami and the Future of Urban Transportation The Ami started life as the AMI ONE C Concept which was a study on new ways to overcome the...
1st Oct 2020
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The Citroën Ami and the Future of Urban Transportation

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1st Oct 2020
The Ami started life as the AMI ONE C Concept which was a study on new ways to overcome the challenges of designing a small, affordable…
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The power of defaults Are network effects overrated? 01 Intro The world’s most successful companies all exhibit some form...
20th Dec 2021
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The power of defaults

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20th Dec 2021
Are network effects overrated? 01 Intro The world’s most successful companies all exhibit some form of structural competitive advantage: A defensibility mechanism that protects their margins and profits from competitors over long periods of time. Business strategy books like to...
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Annoucning Niche design: The Creative Practice Inside the next issue + patronage
4th Aug 2026
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Annoucning Niche design: The Creative Practice

from Product Identity [alt+shift+b] in design

4th Aug 2026
Inside the next issue + patronage
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Vue is a great JavaScript framework for designers
25th Sep 2017
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Vue is a great JavaScript framework for designers

from Koos Looijesteijn [alt+shift+b] in design

25th Sep 2017
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Pets at Home Designed by Nomad, London.
24th Apr 2023
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Pets at Home

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24th Apr 2023
Designed by Nomad, London.
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Another Saturday, Another Song. “Side Two” LP in progress. At 14 songs, it is nearly complete. I expect to release it before the...
3 weeks ago
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Another Saturday, Another Song.

from Jeffrey Zeldman Presents [alt+shift+b] in design

3 weeks ago
“Side Two” LP in progress. At 14 songs, it is nearly complete. I expect to release it before the year’s end. The post Another Saturday, Another Song. appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.
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A future of design work with AI Like a almost everyone I work with I’m thinking a lot about how all this new fangled AI stuff will...
4th Mar 2023
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A future of design work with AI

from Luke Mitchell | Product Designer [alt+shift+b] in design

4th Mar 2023
Like a almost everyone I work with I’m thinking a lot about how all this new fangled AI stuff will change my work. Matthew offers the most level-headed metaphor I’ve found so far: Just as fly-by-wire systems have made pilots more efficient (not redundant), AI and automation will...
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mymind keeps getting better We've been hard at work making every aspect of the mymind.com experience better, smoother, faster...
10th Sep 2024
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mymind keeps getting better

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10th Sep 2024
We've been hard at work making every aspect of the mymind.com experience better, smoother, faster and lovelier.
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NFIB Offices by HLGstudio HLGstudio reimagined the NFIB offices in Nashville, creating a vibrant, collaborative environment...
6th May 2025
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NFIB Offices by HLGstudio

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6th May 2025
HLGstudio reimagined the NFIB offices in Nashville, creating a vibrant, collaborative environment that maximizes natural daylight and promotes productivity and...
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The War of Art by Steven Pressfield More details and reviews on Amazon Interesting take on creative minds and struggles. It is almost...
17th Mar 2023
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The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

from Oykun Yilmaz [alt+shift+b] in design

17th Mar 2023
More details and reviews on Amazon Interesting take on creative minds and struggles. It is almost like a religious book, the author talks about Muses, Angels, how God has created us for a specific purpose equipped with genes/soul to achieve that purpose and how we are destined to...
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Plotter Notebook System Taking notes, in my opinion, is the best thing one can do for themselves. Writing is a form of...
24th Feb 2025
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Plotter Notebook System

from Fatih Arslan [alt+shift+b] in design

24th Feb 2025
Taking notes, in my opinion, is the best thing one can do for themselves. Writing is a form of thinking, and writing manually, in an analog manner, elevates the process. It has a positive impact on your well-being. It’s akin to working out for hours and then returning
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2023 Letter with 10 Lessons Write I've been writing for years, however, I gave the focus it deserved in 2023 as I felt the urge...
30th Dec 2023
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2023 Letter with 10 Lessons

from Oykun Yilmaz [alt+shift+b] in design

30th Dec 2023
Write I've been writing for years, however, I gave the focus it deserved in 2023 as I felt the urge to express my ideas more in words than colours and shapes. I didn’t resist the urge and I have seen amazing benefits. Articulating my ideas, feelings,
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nested folders @ sketch hola! 〜  ദ്ദി ( ᵔ ᗜ ᵔ ) i hope it is not very cold at the moment you’re reading this post 〜 although...
21st Nov 2025
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nested folders @ sketch

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21st Nov 2025
hola! 〜  ദ്ദി ( ᵔ ᗜ ᵔ ) i hope it is not very cold at the moment you’re reading this post 〜 although here is  freezing and dark-ish, i wanted to write a few words about something i designed at sketch a while back and recently released + some other misc 〜  let’s start with a photo...
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Changing all the fonts on WSJ.com “Change the fonts.” It’s a simple mission statement. In reality, changing the fonts on wsj.com has...
11th Dec 2017
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Changing all the fonts on WSJ.com

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

11th Dec 2017
“Change the fonts.” It’s a simple mission statement. In reality, changing the fonts on wsj.com has involved years of coordination and planning between nearly every team at the Wall Street Journal. In the past month, the last few coordinated steps were executed with an incredible...
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Jekyll vs Astro
7th Apr 2024
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Jekyll vs Astro

from Koos Looijesteijn [alt+shift+b] in design

7th Apr 2024
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Hey Koos, do you still recommend WordPress?
29th Jun 2018
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Hey Koos, do you still recommend WordPress?

from Koos Looijesteijn [alt+shift+b] in design

29th Jun 2018
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Vitsoe vs USM shelving I have an extensive Vitsoe 606 shelving setup but plan to extend certain places with USM cabinets....
23rd Jun 2024
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Vitsoe vs USM shelving

from Fatih Arslan [alt+shift+b] in design

23rd Jun 2024
I have an extensive Vitsoe 606 shelving setup but plan to extend certain places with USM cabinets. What are the main differences?
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Why some people mow a lawn better than others. Why some people mow a lawn better than others.
4th Aug 2026
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Why some people mow a lawn better than others.

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4th Aug 2026
Why some people mow a lawn better than others.
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Ramones presidential seal logo Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: sinistersaladmusikal.wordpress.com License: All Rights...
4th Nov 2020
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Ramones presidential seal logo

from Fonts In Use – Blog Only [alt+shift+b] in design

4th Nov 2020
Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: sinistersaladmusikal.wordpress.com License: All Rights Reserved. Source: i-d.vice.com License: All Rights Reserved. Arturo Vega had the logo tattooed on his back with his own name incorporated and a type style that is less stylized...
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10 Years of Fonts In Use Contributed by Nick Sherman License: All Rights Reserved. Fonts In Use officially launched 10...
21st Dec 2020
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10 Years of Fonts In Use

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21st Dec 2020
Contributed by Nick Sherman License: All Rights Reserved. Fonts In Use officially launched 10 years ago today, on December 21, 2010. The site, which started as just the Blog before opening up to public contributions in 2012, has grown far beyond our expectations when we...
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Design-by-wire There’s a lot of fear in the air. As AI gets better at design, it’s natural for designers to be...
2nd Mar 2023
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Design-by-wire

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

2nd Mar 2023
There’s a lot of fear in the air. As AI gets better at design, it’s natural for designers to be worried about their jobs. But I think the question — will AI replace designers? — is a waste of time. Humans have always invented technology to do their work for them and will continue...
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visual journal – 2024 May 20 - June 1 Faces The last two weeks have been unusually busy and routine-disrupting. Half the input to the...
1st Jun 2024
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visual journal – 2024 May 20 - June 1

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

1st Jun 2024
Faces The last two weeks have been unusually busy and routine-disrupting. Half the input to the book as usual, but still, something is better than nothing! I intended to make the collage on the right only black and white. Couldn’t resist a bit of color. Very...
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visual journal – 2024 June 17 - July 05 Make it bigger. portals birthday eve exploring...
5th Jul 2024
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visual journal – 2024 June 17 - July 05

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

5th Jul 2024
Make it bigger. portals birthday eve exploring velocity
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A New AI: Creation as Exploration and Discovery AI transforms UX into exploration-based discovery.
21st Aug 2025
1

A New AI: Creation as Exploration and Discovery

from Jakob Nielsen on UX [alt+shift+b] in design

21st Aug 2025
AI transforms UX into exploration-based discovery.
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Law & Order Contributed by Nick Sherman License: All Rights Reserved. Law & Order is a US television series...
13th Sep 2020
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Law & Order

from Fonts In Use – Blog Only [alt+shift+b] in design

13th Sep 2020
Contributed by Nick Sherman License: All Rights Reserved. Law & Order is a US television series set in New York City that first aired 30 years ago today, on September 13, 1990, and ran for 20 seasons until its final episode in 2010. Each episode is split into two segments:...
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“Sisterhood is Blooming” poster Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: collections.museumca.org License: All Rights Reserved. The...
7th Mar 2020
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“Sisterhood is Blooming” poster

from Fonts In Use – Blog Only [alt+shift+b] in design

7th Mar 2020
Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: collections.museumca.org License: All Rights Reserved. The “Sisterhood is Blooming / Springtime Will Never Be the Same” poster was originally produced in the early 1970s by the Chicago Women's Graphics Collective, an organization founded...
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Stop brainstorming “Brainstorming” — the problem-solving technique of coming up with as many ideas as possible in a...
18th Jan 2022
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Stop brainstorming

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

18th Jan 2022
“Brainstorming” — the problem-solving technique of coming up with as many ideas as possible in a short period of time — has been showing up on a lot of my leadership meeting agendas lately. Many of my peers are employing brainstorming in the belief that, as thought-leading...
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FENDI store FENDI has upgraded its presence in Osaka‘s downtown Shinsaibashi area by relocating to new and...
1st Jul 2024
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FENDI store

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1st Jul 2024
FENDI has upgraded its presence in Osaka‘s downtown Shinsaibashi area by relocating to new and bigger premises a few blocks...
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Breaking looms Let’s talk about Luddites. The actual, real, historical Luddites. “Luddite” was the label given to a...
4th Feb 2020
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Breaking looms

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

4th Feb 2020
Let’s talk about Luddites. The actual, real, historical Luddites. “Luddite” was the label given to a group of English workers’ rights activists in the early 19th century. They owe their name to a man who may never have existed — Ned Ludd. The Luddites were working-class people...
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UX Roundup: Vigilance Fatigue | Adaptive Authoring | UI Clutter | Scenarios vs. Surveys for User... Asking users to watch AI carefully is doomed to failure | Adaptive authoring of content that changes...
3 weeks ago
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UX Roundup: Vigilance Fatigue | Adaptive Authoring | UI Clutter | Scenarios vs. Surveys for User Preferences | Measure Outcomes | Satisfaction vs. Expectations | Spotlight Features | Allow Paste

from Jakob Nielsen on UX [alt+shift+b] in design

3 weeks ago
Asking users to watch AI carefully is doomed to failure | Adaptive authoring of content that changes depending on the reader | A cluttered experience kills user focus | To predict patients’ treatment preferences, discussing medical dilemmas beat both survey responses and the...
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Looking for humanness in the world wide social This is the first part of a series on the identity of social networks.
15th Jan 2025
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Looking for humanness in the world wide social

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15th Jan 2025
This is the first part of a series on the identity of social networks.
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Why Car Companies Need More Interaction Designers The Citroën DS was designed by Flavio Bertoni who, together with aviation engineer André Lèfebvre,...
1st Apr 2019
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Why Car Companies Need More Interaction Designers

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1st Apr 2019
The Citroën DS was designed by Flavio Bertoni who, together with aviation engineer André Lèfebvre, created some of the most influential…
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In-Car Climate Control Design: How It Has Gone Backwards and How to Fix It Why has the design of in-car climate controls gone backward, and is there a better way to design...
1st Feb 2023
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In-Car Climate Control Design: How It Has Gone Backwards and How to Fix It

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1st Feb 2023
Why has the design of in-car climate controls gone backward, and is there a better way to design them?
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The Subtle Art of Designing Physical Controls for Cars Prototyping a concept for simpler, physical climate controls
1st Feb 2025
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The Subtle Art of Designing Physical Controls for Cars

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1st Feb 2025
Prototyping a concept for simpler, physical climate controls
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Objects of Affection — From the Desk of van Schneider — Edition №257 As always, if you missed last weeks email, its now on my blog. Last week I shared my big bucket list...
3rd Feb 2025
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Objects of Affection — From the Desk of van Schneider — Edition №257

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3rd Feb 2025
As always, if you missed last weeks email, its now on my blog. Last week I shared my big bucket list "Designs of my Dreams" with you. Feel free to forward this article to friends or colleagues if you like, its now open to everyone to read. Designs
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Bringing markers back to UI design Many designers know: the best design tool is a marker. Not Figma, not Sketch and no, not a pencil....
8th Jul 2021
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Bringing markers back to UI design

from Koos Looijesteijn - Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

8th Jul 2021
Many designers know: the best design tool is a marker. Not Figma, not Sketch and no, not a pencil. With...
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Metra tickets, 1990–1991 Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.c82.net C82 / Nicholas...
17th Sep 2023
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Metra tickets, 1990–1991

from Fonts In Use – Blog Only [alt+shift+b] in design

17th Sep 2023
Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.c82.net C82 / Nicholas Rougeux. License: All Rights Reserved. January 1990, ft. an unidentified rounded sans Source: www.c82.net C82 / Nicholas Rougeux. License: All Rights Reserved. February...
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Tan Mok Won Mixed Use Spaceby USER + NAUxLab Tan-Mok-Won is located on the site of a 2013 fire in Ulsan, South Korea. Such history defines the...
3rd Feb 2025
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Tan Mok Won Mixed Use Spaceby USER + NAUxLab

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3rd Feb 2025
Tan-Mok-Won is located on the site of a 2013 fire in Ulsan, South Korea. Such history defines the site’s locality,...
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Delight comes last Paul Adams put it bluntly: “Grid, font, colour, and aesthetic style are irrelevant if [outcomes]...
23rd Jun 2019
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Delight comes last

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

23rd Jun 2019
Paul Adams put it bluntly: “Grid, font, colour, and aesthetic style are irrelevant if [outcomes] haven’t been resolved first … [but] sometimes it’s just more fun to draw nice pictures and bury oneself in pixels than deal with complicated business decisions and people with...
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Making an audio waveform visualizer with vanilla java script You can read this article on UX Booth.
12th Nov 2019
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Making an audio waveform visualizer with vanilla java script

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

12th Nov 2019
You can read this article on UX Booth.
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My anti-New Year’s resolutions I suck at New Year's Resolutions. Most of them are boring which is one reason we don't really stick...
30th Jan 2024
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My anti-New Year’s resolutions

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30th Jan 2024
I suck at New Year's Resolutions. Most of them are boring which is one reason we don't really stick with them.
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CSS @property and the New Style The @property at-rule recently gained support across all modern browsers, unlocking the ability to...
2nd Sep 2024
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CSS @property and the New Style

from Ryan Mulligan [alt+shift+b] in design

2nd Sep 2024
The @property at-rule recently gained support across all modern browsers, unlocking the ability to explicitly define a syntax, initial value, and inheritance for CSS custom properties. It seems like forever ago that CSS Houdini and its CSS Properties and Values API were initially...
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SEASON’S TREE-TINGS! THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO CHRISTMAS, 2023 The past few years have been rocky for Christmas. In 2020 it was cancelled. In 2021, it felt a...
5th Dec 2023
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SEASON’S TREE-TINGS! THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO CHRISTMAS, 2023

from Melissa Penfold [alt+shift+b] in design

5th Dec 2023
The past few years have been rocky for Christmas. In 2020 it was cancelled. In 2021, it felt a little more appealing. Things began to feel more normal in 2022, but having been homebodies for so long we were still flexing our dormant social muscles. In 2023 the weight of current...
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UX Roundup: Email UX | Sora 2 | AI New Business Capabilities | AI Consumer Surplus | Latent... Email user experience | New video model Sora 2 compared with older models | AI offering new business...
6th Oct 2025
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UX Roundup: Email UX | Sora 2 | AI New Business Capabilities | AI Consumer Surplus | Latent Affordances | Ambient Clinical AI

from Jakob Nielsen on UX [alt+shift+b] in design

6th Oct 2025
Email user experience | New video model Sora 2 compared with older models | AI offering new business capabilities instead of just replacing old jobs | Most of AI’s economic value is consumer surplus | Latent affordances for AI feature discovery | Simple ambient AI scribes help...
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A design API in practice Update 6/12/22: The links to the implmentation of the API are currently broken. I'm updating some...
6th Jul 2020
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A design API in practice

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

6th Jul 2020
Update 6/12/22: The links to the implmentation of the API are currently broken. I'm updating some dependencies to make it work again. A few months ago I wrote an essay titled “Design APIs: the evolution of design systems”. The API model for design systems resonated with design...
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The Role of Doubt in Design At a recent happy hour, I struck up a conversation with a product manager. I told him I was a...
17th Jul 2019
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The Role of Doubt in Design

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

17th Jul 2019
At a recent happy hour, I struck up a conversation with a product manager. I told him I was a product designer, and he asked “one of the good ones, or one of the bad ones?” A designer on his team — a “bad one” — asked too many questions. Questions like “Why are we building this...
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Here's how I maintain healthy media routines (most of the time) It took me a while to break the bad habits I had around social platforms and reading news. In...
11th Feb 2021
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Here's how I maintain healthy media routines (most of the time)

from Koos Looijesteijn - Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

11th Feb 2021
It took me a while to break the bad habits I had around social platforms and reading news. In fact,...
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Tactile Controls In A Digital World This article was written by Scott Jenson and Michael DiTullo and published at Core77 in April 2024 A...
31st May 2024
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Tactile Controls In A Digital World

from Scott Jenson [alt+shift+b] in design

31st May 2024
This article was written by Scott Jenson and Michael DiTullo and published at Core77 in April 2024 A few recent tech writers have leaked that the new AirPods case will likely have a touch screen. Other earbud makers have tried this as well but it’s Apple, so people will naturally...
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Decentralizing quality Everyone agrees quality matters, but we can’t agree on what it is — or who gets to decide. I’ve...
30th Sep 2025
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Decentralizing quality

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

30th Sep 2025
Everyone agrees quality matters, but we can’t agree on what it is — or who gets to decide. I’ve experienced the drive for quality in every design leadership role I’ve had. When it comes to software, we like to pretend that quality is a number. Dashboards stand in for judgment,...
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The legacy of NFTs A new trend is sending shock waves through the world of art, collecting, finance, and...
29th Dec 2021
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The legacy of NFTs

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

29th Dec 2021
A new trend is sending shock waves through the world of art, collecting, finance, and investing. It’s the result of a perfect storm: one part scientific breakthrough, one part new financial paradigm, one part reflection of world events. Some people attribute it entirely to the...
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