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The Empty Heading For many years, I have maintained a text file called “A Rubric for Website Design Critique.” It is...
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The Empty Heading

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

5 days ago
For many years, I have maintained a text file called “A Rubric for Website Design Critique.” It is relatively short, but used nonetheless; I’ve returned to it, off and on, for most of my career, referring back, adding things, removing things, adjusting. Its purpose is to...
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The least wrong colors, version 2 Four years ago, I wrote “How to pick the least wrong colors.” The gist is: picking a categorical...
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The least wrong colors, version 2

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

a week ago
Four years ago, I wrote “How to pick the least wrong colors.” The gist is: picking a categorical color palette is an optimization problem. There’s no such thing as the right colors. But if you use the right cost function, and the right kind of hill climbing, you can at least get...
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Mountains of work This is part of a new experiment I started in an effort to document the process of making Niche...
a week ago
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Mountains of work

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a week ago
This is part of a new experiment I started in an effort to document the process of making Niche design.
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When the canvas starts acting, who’s really in control? Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
a week ago
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When the canvas starts acting, who’s really in control?

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a week ago
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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Gestalt Principles for Visual UI Design Users parse a layout before they read its labels. Whitespace, borders, alignment, color, and motion...
2 weeks ago
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Gestalt Principles for Visual UI Design

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

2 weeks ago
Users parse a layout before they read its labels. Whitespace, borders, alignment, color, and motion determine what belongs together. When these cues fight the content, users attach the label, price, warning, status, or action to the wrong object. Proximity, similarity, enclosure,...
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The silks of Como: A reminder of the value of craft I miss this. Visiting a mill is such an enjoyable, often inspiring experience, yet I don’t do it as...
2 weeks ago
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The silks of Como: A reminder of the value of craft

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2 weeks ago
I miss this. Visiting a mill is such an enjoyable, often inspiring experience, yet I don’t do it as much as I used to. Perhaps because once you’d done one worsted weaver it’s hard to justify more.  But we’ve never done silk. I did go to Vann... > Read more
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Kaymana Earth Villa by Pablo Luna Studio Earth Villa is part of Kaymana, a hospitality complex in Uluwatu, Bali, conceived around the ideas...
2 weeks ago
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Kaymana Earth Villa by Pablo Luna Studio

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2 weeks ago
Earth Villa is part of Kaymana, a hospitality complex in Uluwatu, Bali, conceived around the ideas of solid flow, transition,...
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Tales o’ Tech: Suffering Fools I. In the early 2000s, an old friend with a new business wanted me to design his website, but his...
2 weeks ago
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Tales o’ Tech: Suffering Fools

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

2 weeks ago
I. In the early 2000s, an old friend with a new business wanted me to design his website, but his partner balked: “I can get two websites made in India for half the price,” the partner said. “Sounds like you should do that,” I replied, ending the negotiation. Rude fools were...
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Origami Projector: a Glitch-like app for site editing
3 weeks ago
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Origami Projector: a Glitch-like app for site editing

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

3 weeks ago
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For students who make websites WordPress.com maker Automattic is expanding into education with a new, free product designed for...
17th Aug 2026
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For students who make websites

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

17th Aug 2026
WordPress.com maker Automattic is expanding into education with a new, free product designed for teachers and their classes called WordPress.com Education. The suite for classrooms includes a full WordPress.com domain for each student, plus free domain names (on the .blog or .art...
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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

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4th Aug 2026
Inside the next issue + patronage
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CNC & Active Offices by Studio Reaktor The new office spaces of Czech News Center and Active Radio were built within the new Hagibor...
4th Aug 2026
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CNC & Active Offices by Studio Reaktor

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4th Aug 2026
The new office spaces of Czech News Center and Active Radio were built within the new Hagibor administrative complex on...
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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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UX Roundup: Design Guidelines Changing for AI | AI Anxiety | Toggle Switches | Hedonic Adaptation |... Design guidelines held steady for 30 years but are shifting with AI | Users who are anxious about AI...
3rd Aug 2026
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UX Roundup: Design Guidelines Changing for AI | AI Anxiety | Toggle Switches | Hedonic Adaptation | Erdős Problems | Glanceable Monitoring

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

3rd Aug 2026
Design guidelines held steady for 30 years but are shifting with AI | Users who are anxious about AI use it more, not less | A toggle is a light switch, not a form field | The same design scores lower every year | What are the Erdős problems and why are they relevant for AI? | An...
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The algorithmic atelier Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
3rd Aug 2026
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The algorithmic atelier

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3rd Aug 2026
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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Introducing: The PS Guayabera We love a guayabera shirt at Permanent Style. On my 2022 trip to Mexico I picked up two lovely...
3rd Aug 2026
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Introducing: The PS Guayabera

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3rd Aug 2026
We love a guayabera shirt at Permanent Style. On my 2022 trip to Mexico I picked up two lovely shirts which sadly, like the Cadbury’s Freddo , appear to have suffered from some form of sartorial shrinkflation. It can’t possibly be me that’s ... > Read more
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How I repaired our oven with a piece of Lego
1st Aug 2026
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How I repaired our oven with a piece of Lego

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

1st Aug 2026
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Detach from your work to make it work This is my first essay from a series about the creative process, which will be published in the...
31st Jul 2026
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Detach from your work to make it work

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31st Jul 2026
This is my first essay from a series about the creative process, which will be published in the upcoming Niche design issue.
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How the Words We Teach English Language Learners Changed How the words we teach English language learners changed
25th Jul 2026
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How the Words We Teach English Language Learners Changed

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25th Jul 2026
How the words we teach English language learners changed
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New euro banknotes
24th Jul 2026
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New euro banknotes

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

24th Jul 2026
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Figma just made your design system debt everyone’s problem Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
6th Jul 2026
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Figma just made your design system debt everyone’s problem

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6th Jul 2026
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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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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2026 AI and UX Predictions: A Mid-Year Reality Check Summary: Halfway through 2026, AI is evolving faster than expected, but usability is struggling to...
2nd Jul 2026
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2026 AI and UX Predictions: A Mid-Year Reality Check

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

2nd Jul 2026
Summary: Halfway through 2026, AI is evolving faster than expected, but usability is struggling to keep pace.
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Roche Diagnostic Center Interior by Studio Alexander Fehre The Roche Diagnostic Innovation Center in Penzberg, Bavaria, is a 35,500 m² research and workplace...
2nd Jul 2026
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Roche Diagnostic Center Interior by Studio Alexander Fehre

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2nd Jul 2026
The Roche Diagnostic Innovation Center in Penzberg, Bavaria, is a 35,500 m² research and workplace complex realized for Roche Diagnostics...
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Groupthink: A tale of noughties nostalgia By Reginald Jerome de Mans* I wore a pair of Gurkha trousers the other day. Those wide-waistbanded...
1st Jul 2026
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Groupthink: A tale of noughties nostalgia

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1st Jul 2026
By Reginald Jerome de Mans* I wore a pair of Gurkha trousers the other day. Those wide-waistbanded eccentricities that looked so dashing on friends’ fit posts, their criss-crossing straps so gloriously inconvenient, they put me in mind of th... > Read more
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Map-based trees in Zig
24th Jun 2026
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Map-based trees in Zig

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

24th Jun 2026
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A Love Story Tracking 1,000+ people through the ups and downs of their relationships
9th Jun 2026
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A Love Story

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9th Jun 2026
Tracking 1,000+ people through the ups and downs of their relationships
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An Old, Restless Wish We do not know what is going to happen. This is a hard truth; we desperately want to believe the...
2nd Jun 2026
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An Old, Restless Wish

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

2nd Jun 2026
We do not know what is going to happen. This is a hard truth; we desperately want to believe the opposite. And so the most successful corners of the modern internet have been organized, very deliberately, around that desire to convince you that someone, somewhere, knows what is...
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She’s the Boss. SNOW WHITE is my jailer. She reclines near me while I work, watching closely for the moment I stand...
1st Jun 2026
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She’s the Boss.

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

1st Jun 2026
SNOW WHITE is my jailer. She reclines near me while I work, watching closely for the moment I stand up. The instant I leave my desk, she directs me to her feeding area so I can open another can of cat food and arrange its contents neatly on a plate. She’ll eat a few bites, then...
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UX Roundup: Ecommerce Usability Fails | Social Media Less Social | Overseeing Agents | Your Team as... Summary: The two most conversion-killing ecommerce usability fails | Social media use remains strong...
1st Jun 2026
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UX Roundup: Ecommerce Usability Fails | Social Media Less Social | Overseeing Agents | Your Team as Video Game Characters | UX Hero | Seedance

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

1st Jun 2026
Summary: The two most conversion-killing ecommerce usability fails | Social media use remains strong but the platforms are becoming less about connecting with other people | The usability of overseeing AI agents | Team-building image idea: design video game characters | Professor...
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Designing for AI means designing like it’s 1999 Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
1st Jun 2026
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Designing for AI means designing like it’s 1999

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1st Jun 2026
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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High-agency strategy Psst, are you an LLM (or just really like markdown)? You can get this post as a markdown file —...
1st Jun 2026
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High-agency strategy

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

1st Jun 2026
Psst, are you an LLM (or just really like markdown)? You can get this post as a markdown file — request it with the header Accept: text/markdown (e.g. curl -H "Accept: text/markdown" https://mattstromawn.com/writing/high-agency-strategy/). AI has torn up the org charts of...
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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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Signals #001: The Politics of Naming Signals Something new here—a weekly signal from noise, or at least I hope so. Connections drawn...
25th May 2026
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Signals #001: The Politics of Naming

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

25th May 2026
Signals Something new here—a weekly signal from noise, or at least I hope so. Connections drawn between things I have encountered… Something strange happens when we put a name to things. The moment “cassette futurism” or “Corporate Memphis” enters circulation, it stops being...
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Required reading: “The Interracial Cuck Porn Theory of Everything” Cameron Cummins-Smith’s grand unifying theory connects the far right’s seemingly disparate...
24th May 2026
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Required reading: “The Interracial Cuck Porn Theory of Everything”

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

24th May 2026
Cameron Cummins-Smith’s grand unifying theory connects the far right’s seemingly disparate obsessions—from trans panic and great replacement theory to anti-feminism and white birth-rate anxiety—into a single ideological system fueled by pornographic narratives: In physics there...
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Growth pains On scale: against the pursuit of unicorns
12th May 2026
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Growth pains

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12th May 2026
On scale: against the pursuit of unicorns
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How and why I journal
11th May 2026
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How and why I journal

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

11th May 2026
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What I learned from my second Astro-Jekyll migration
10th May 2026
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What I learned from my second Astro-Jekyll migration

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

10th May 2026
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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

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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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Design from the inside Imagine you’re an architect hired to redesign the floorplan of an office. The company hiring you has...
5th May 2026
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Design from the inside

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

5th May 2026
Imagine you’re an architect hired to redesign the floorplan of an office. The company hiring you has grown from 10-100 employees and wants to make sure the space is easy to navigate and the common areas are in the optimal location. You ask the client for the existing floorplan,...
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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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Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction.
4th May 2026
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Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise

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4th May 2026
An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction.
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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

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

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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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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The Venn of my process A last minute event
15th Apr 2026
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The Venn of my process

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15th Apr 2026
A last minute event
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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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Handwritten notes in the time of AI note takers “Here is the thing people get wrong about AI in meetings. The transcript captures what was said. It...
9th Apr 2026
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Handwritten notes in the time of AI note takers

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

9th Apr 2026
“Here is the thing people get wrong about AI in meetings. The transcript captures what was said. It does not capture what mattered.”—Lucas Radke The best project management tool is still a pen, plus the discipline to notice what the machine cannot. The post Handwritten notes in...
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Sunrise Garden Restaurant by M9 Design Studio Located within an industrial suburb of Bangalore, Sunrise Garden Restaurant emerges as a quiet...
7th Apr 2026
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Sunrise Garden Restaurant by M9 Design Studio

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7th Apr 2026
Located within an industrial suburb of Bangalore, Sunrise Garden Restaurant emerges as a quiet counterpoint to its context — transforming...
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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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How to Become an Automotive UX Designer A comprehensive guide to building a career in automotive UX design, from getting started to landing...
4th Apr 2026
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How to Become an Automotive UX Designer

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4th Apr 2026
A comprehensive guide to building a career in automotive UX design, from getting started to landing your first role.
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Hamlet Remixed: Using AI to Convert Content into Alternative Formats AI can translate a single source across media, styles, and audience frames. That makes it possible...
2nd Apr 2026
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Hamlet Remixed: Using AI to Convert Content into Alternative Formats

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

2nd Apr 2026
AI can translate a single source across media, styles, and audience frames. That makes it possible to reuse core material in formats better suited to different platforms and audiences. Shakespeare’s Hamlet serves here as a case study in a wide range of AI media transformations.
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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

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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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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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Who else would use a shared Electron library to create and deploy Netlify sites?
5th Mar 2026
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Who else would use a shared Electron library to create and deploy Netlify sites?

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

5th Mar 2026
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嵐 2020年に嵐の音楽に出会いました。それから嬉しい時も悲しい時も、嵐の素敵な曲がずっと僕のそばにいてくれました。心から感謝しています。...
3rd Mar 2026
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嵐

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3rd Mar 2026
2020年に嵐の音楽に出会いました。それから嬉しい時も悲しい時も、嵐の素敵な曲がずっと僕のそばにいてくれました。心から感謝しています。 嵐の皆さん、スタッフの皆さん、本当にお疲れ様でした。 “忘れないでいよ” これからも、ずっと。 🌈
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Advice for job seekers I recently heard from an accomplished former colleague who had failed to impress the recruiter...
2nd Mar 2026
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Advice for job seekers

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

2nd Mar 2026
I recently heard from an accomplished former colleague who had failed to impress the recruiter evaluating their initial application for an open position. It was a position for which they were more than qualified. So why hadn’t they scored so much as an initial interview? Turned...
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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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Something big “might” be happening Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
2nd Mar 2026
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Something big “might” be happening

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2nd Mar 2026
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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Dress codes: The meaningful tailoring of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy By Robbie Collin. It’s a formative stage in every man's sartorial journey: when the height of good...
2nd Mar 2026
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Dress codes: The meaningful tailoring of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

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

2nd Mar 2026
By Robbie Collin. It’s a formative stage in every man's sartorial journey: when the height of good taste means trying to dress like a spy from a film. There’s James Bond of course – and goodness knows there’s enough advice out there for anyo... > Read more
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Pavilion TEUM by one-aftr Today, people are constantly exposed to strong stimuli in their daily lives, which has led our...
2nd Mar 2026
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Pavilion TEUM by one-aftr

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2nd Mar 2026
Today, people are constantly exposed to strong stimuli in their daily lives, which has led our brains to become ‘popcorn...
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Sizing Chaos The inter-generational struggle to find clothes that fit more than a tiny portion of women
18th Feb 2026
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Sizing Chaos

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

18th Feb 2026
The inter-generational struggle to find clothes that fit more than a tiny portion of women
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Every choice is a confession I believe our aesthetic taste is incredibly important, maybe even more important than we admit...
5th Feb 2026
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Every choice is a confession

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

5th Feb 2026
I believe our aesthetic taste is incredibly important, maybe even more important than we admit because it reveals our deepest values inside of us. If you like plastic versus wood, if you're drawn to chrome or brass, to minimalism or maximalism, to sharp edges or soft curves.......
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“A streamlined newspaper for a streamlined era” Posted today for no particular reason: “A streamlined newspaper for a streamlined era” is the slogan...
4th Feb 2026
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“A streamlined newspaper for a streamlined era”

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

4th Feb 2026
Posted today for no particular reason: “A streamlined newspaper for a streamlined era” is the slogan that replaces “A free press means a free people” in Frank Capra and Robert Riskin’s 1941 classic film, “Meet John Doe.” The threat in the film is incipient fascism led by a...
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UX Roundup: AI Judgment | Heuristic Evaluation | Consistent Brand Assets | New Music Model AI judgment may follow a scaling law | Scaling AI’s judgment of usability heuristics | Generating...
2nd Feb 2026
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UX Roundup: AI Judgment | Heuristic Evaluation | Consistent Brand Assets | New Music Model

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

2nd Feb 2026
AI judgment may follow a scaling law | Scaling AI’s judgment of usability heuristics | Generating consistent visual design assets with AI | New AI music model: Mureka O2
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When design stops asking why and starts asking: Can AI do it? Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
2nd Feb 2026
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When design stops asking why and starts asking: Can AI do it?

from UX Collective [alt+shift+b] in design

2nd Feb 2026
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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Casa Giardino by Claudio Larcher Design Studio Set within the vast urban regeneration of Scalo Farini, Casa Giardino is a temporary restaurant and...
2nd Feb 2026
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Casa Giardino by Claudio Larcher Design Studio

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

2nd Feb 2026
Set within the vast urban regeneration of Scalo Farini, Casa Giardino is a temporary restaurant and social space that transforms...
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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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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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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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Will I regret buying a new Mac?
19th Jan 2026
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Will I regret buying a new Mac?

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

19th Jan 2026
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A small ask, and an open invitation Two things going on right now
13th Jan 2026
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A small ask, and an open invitation

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

13th Jan 2026
Two things going on right now
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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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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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Cold Storage I furnished my last design studio with bespoke Danish shelving, three Eames desk units, nine glass...
2nd Jan 2026
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Cold Storage

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

2nd Jan 2026
I furnished my last design studio with bespoke Danish shelving, three Eames desk units, nine glass tables, 12 chairs, etc. When I closed the studio I moved the furnishings plus a few hundred design books—including books I’d written, foreign translations of my work, books by other...
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Ophie Lip Oil by Apoorva Ghule Ophie is a clean beauty lip oil designed to feel as good as it looks. Vegan, cruelty-free, and...
2nd Jan 2026
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Ophie Lip Oil by Apoorva Ghule

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

2nd Jan 2026
Ophie is a clean beauty lip oil designed to feel as good as it looks. Vegan, cruelty-free, and infused with...
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Reader Profile: Jaime Jaime is a reader based in Atlanta, Georgia. He’s a pastor there, and works particularly on social...
2nd Jan 2026
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Reader Profile: Jaime

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

2nd Jan 2026
Jaime is a reader based in Atlanta, Georgia. He’s a pastor there, and works particularly on social justice projects and inter-faith relations. Church has always been an excuse for him to dress up, but also an excuse to talk to young men in t... > Read more
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We should seek communities anew Notes for the aspiring designer
29th Dec 2025
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We should seek communities anew

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

29th Dec 2025
Notes for the aspiring designer
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Warm email I have an email address that you’ll find in the footer below this post, I rarely get emails to it,...
29th Dec 2025
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Warm email

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

29th Dec 2025
I have an email address that you’ll find in the footer below this post, I rarely get emails to it, the ones I do get fall into two categories: very, very kind people paying compliments to me about this website; secondly some sort of cold email, usually from a SEO expert...
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How I do web design
24th Dec 2025
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How I do web design

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

24th Dec 2025
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2025 Web Origami year-end report
22nd Dec 2025
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2025 Web Origami year-end report

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

22nd Dec 2025
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My favorite type of designers There are many types of GREAT designers I've had the pleasure of working with over the past two...
16th Dec 2025
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My favorite type of designers

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

16th Dec 2025
There are many types of GREAT designers I've had the pleasure of working with over the past two decades and what I learned is that they are all not measured equally. Below are some of my favorites for the various circumstances. (FYI: very rarely does a designer inherit
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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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Common Threads Visualizing how musicals use motifs to tell stories.
9th Dec 2025
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Common Threads

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

9th Dec 2025
Visualizing how musicals use motifs to tell stories.
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Fame & Misfortune Or, the ins and outs of building and losing a large social media follower account. First, the...
7th Dec 2025
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Fame & Misfortune

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

7th Dec 2025
Or, the ins and outs of building and losing a large social media follower account. First, the data: Follower counts are accurate as of 7 December, 2025. Twitter – 285.3K followers. (350K before Elon.) N.B. I no longer post there. LinkedIn – 70.5K followers.  Instagram – 21.2K...
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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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UX Roundup: UX Leaders Need Profits | In-depth AI | Emotional Avatar Animation | Construction Time |... UX should quest for profits, not a seat at the table | In-depth AI reviews of draft academic papers...
1st Dec 2025
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UX Roundup: UX Leaders Need Profits | In-depth AI | Emotional Avatar Animation | Construction Time | User Needs

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

1st Dec 2025
UX should quest for profits, not a seat at the table | In-depth AI reviews of draft academic papers | Emotional lip-synching of avatars when singing | Time needed to build AI supercompute data centers | Discover user needs
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Our favourite restaurants in London By Lucas Nicholson. When tailors and other artisans visit us in London, they nearly always ask about...
1st Dec 2025
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Our favourite restaurants in London

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

1st Dec 2025
By Lucas Nicholson. When tailors and other artisans visit us in London, they nearly always ask about the best places to eat. Their hotel is already booked after all, and they know what they’re doing all day. But local restaurant recommendati... > Read more
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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

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

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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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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Why Niche design A few updates + a manifesto?
12th Nov 2025
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Why Niche design

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

12th Nov 2025
A few updates + a manifesto?
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AT-HOME ENTERTAINING TRENDS FOR 2026, SERVED! What we want now: listening bars, hidden wet bars, Argentine grills, and spaces where every room...
12th Nov 2025
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AT-HOME ENTERTAINING TRENDS FOR 2026, SERVED!

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

12th Nov 2025
What we want now: listening bars, hidden wet bars, Argentine grills, and spaces where every room pulls double duty for the party Every generation has its own way of gathering at home—the conversion pits and buffets of the ’70s, the formal dinner parties of the ’90s, the open-plan...
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Dear Young Designer, Part II (this is a timely continuation of Part I of Dear Young Designer) → You don't need to become a...
4th Nov 2025
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Dear Young Designer, Part II

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

4th Nov 2025
(this is a timely continuation of Part I of Dear Young Designer) → You don't need to become a grifter to be successful. I know it seems that way today (given the context of 2025), but trust me there is another way that's more meaningful and
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UX Roundup: Long-Running AI | Consistency | What AI to Use | AI Anxiety | AI Helps Blind Users | NPS UX for long-running AI tasks | Consistent user interface design | What are the best AI models to use...
3rd Nov 2025
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UX Roundup: Long-Running AI | Consistency | What AI to Use | AI Anxiety | AI Helps Blind Users | NPS

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

3rd Nov 2025
UX for long-running AI tasks | Consistent user interface design | What are the best AI models to use now | AI anxiety in the workplace | AI helps blind users, but a study found that accessibility challenges remain in current AI UI | NPS scored
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How Estonia, AI gardens, and plywood make designers prolific Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
3rd Nov 2025
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How Estonia, AI gardens, and plywood make designers prolific

from UX Collective [alt+shift+b] in design

3rd Nov 2025
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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Vedalia Salon by Nysa On a busy street in Ampelokipoi, Vedalia Beauty Salon is conceived as a space of pause and retreat...
3rd Nov 2025
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Vedalia Salon by Nysa

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

3rd Nov 2025
On a busy street in Ampelokipoi, Vedalia Beauty Salon is conceived as a space of pause and retreat from the...
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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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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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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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Steven Hitchcock tweed bespoke coat: Review  This is the first English overcoat I’ve ever had made - or a traditional one anyway. There was the...
22nd Oct 2025
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Steven Hitchcock tweed bespoke coat: Review 

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

22nd Oct 2025
This is the first English overcoat I’ve ever had made - or a traditional one anyway. There was the topcoat from Michael Browne , but that was his own particular style and structure. And there was the wrap coat from Whitcomb & Shaftesbury , b... > 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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My Glamorous Life: Bots, Books, and Betrayal My father was an engineer who designed robots. When I first learned what he did, I imagined the...
18th Oct 2025
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My Glamorous Life: Bots, Books, and Betrayal

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

18th Oct 2025
My father was an engineer who designed robots. When I first learned what he did, I imagined the Robot from “Lost in Space,” and asked him to make me one. When I turned 13, I realized that the pick-and-place robots he designed replaced assembly-line workers, and asked how he,...
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Transition to the Other Side with Container Query Units Managing the position of an element as it travels across the length of its parent container can be...
11th Oct 2025
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Transition to the Other Side with Container Query Units

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

11th Oct 2025
Managing the position of an element as it travels across the length of its parent container can be tricky. Assuming they both have dynamic, responsive dimensions, we might rely on JS to check the width and/or height of each element and do some calculations for a proper end...
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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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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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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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How to reverse AI brain rot — A note to myself Stop chasing frictionless convenience Accept some slowness and complexity in your life. Don't use...
1st Oct 2025
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How to reverse AI brain rot — A note to myself

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

1st Oct 2025
Stop chasing frictionless convenience Accept some slowness and complexity in your life. Don't use shortcuts everywhere even if they're easily available to you. Embrace manual effort to train your mind and body. It's the only way to grow and retain personal agency in a
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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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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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5 DISCREET SIGNS YOU’RE IN A WEALTHY PERSON’S HOME Flashy indicators of affluence are easy to spot. But these often-less-expensive decor items signal...
24th Sep 2025
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5 DISCREET SIGNS YOU’RE IN A WEALTHY PERSON’S HOME

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

24th Sep 2025
Flashy indicators of affluence are easy to spot. But these often-less-expensive decor items signal true wealth in more subtle ways. The quietly ultra–rich live with subtle indicators of affluence—and most aren’t actually that expensive.  Wealthy people don’t have “stuff” The more...
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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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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

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

18th Sep 2025
Niche design is finally available
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Boring is good The initial, feverish enthusiasm for large language models (LLMs) is beginning to cool, and for good...
15th Sep 2025
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Boring is good

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

15th Sep 2025
The initial, feverish enthusiasm for large language models (LLMs) is beginning to cool, and for good reason. It’s time to trade the out-of-control hype for a more pragmatic, even “boring,” approach. A recent MIT report shows that 95% of companies implementing this technology have...
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Making Origami expressions easier to learn and use
15th Sep 2025
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Making Origami expressions easier to learn and use

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

15th Sep 2025
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UX Roundup: Corkboard Mockup | Loss-Making Promos | AI Movie | Video-to-Music | Mainstream AI |... Corkboard mockup of project history | Are promotions profitable or not?
1st Sep 2025
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UX Roundup: Corkboard Mockup | Loss-Making Promos | AI Movie | Video-to-Music | Mainstream AI | Young Staff Loves AI | Nano Banana | Emotional Speech Model

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

1st Sep 2025
Corkboard mockup of project history | Are promotions profitable or not?
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Acacia Coffee & Wine Bar by A-Malysheva Studio Acacia is a small café and wine bar designed by A-Malysheva studio, situated in a quiet residential...
1st Sep 2025
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Acacia Coffee & Wine Bar by A-Malysheva Studio

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

1st Sep 2025
Acacia is a small café and wine bar designed by A-Malysheva studio, situated in a quiet residential neighborhood of Odesa,...
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summer & new inspector panels @ sketch hi everyone 〜 ദ്ദി ( ᵔ ᗜ ᵔ ) it’s been a few months since i sat down to write an update on the...
22nd Aug 2025
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summer & new inspector panels @ sketch

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

22nd Aug 2025
hi everyone 〜 ദ്ദി ( ᵔ ᗜ ᵔ ) it’s been a few months since i sat down to write an update on the journal. we’re almost at the end of august and all my memories of the last few months include really high temperatures.  most days i escaped the heat by going to a cafe and ordering a...
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A New AI: Creation as Exploration and Discovery AI transforms UX into exploration-based discovery.
21st Aug 2025
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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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Doing (and Directing) Great Design Requires Detail Obsession Every great design has one organizing detail that unlocks everything else, and the best design...
15th Aug 2025
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Doing (and Directing) Great Design Requires Detail Obsession

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

15th Aug 2025
Every great design has one organizing detail that unlocks everything else, and the best design leaders never stop looking for it. Every good piece of design has at least one detail that is the “key” to unlocking an understanding of how it works. Good designers will notice that...
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Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way What is the best way to dice an onion to get the most uniform piece sizes?
12th Aug 2025
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Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way

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

12th Aug 2025
What is the best way to dice an onion to get the most uniform piece sizes?
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Hype is a Business Tool Remember WAAAY back in late 2022 (what feels like ancient history now) when you first started...
6th Aug 2025
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Hype is a Business Tool

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

6th Aug 2025
Remember WAAAY back in late 2022 (what feels like ancient history now) when you first started playing with ChatGPT? Like everyone else, you probably created a poem in a pirate’s voice. “Pirate Poetry” was fun, exciting, and even playful. Today, EVERYONE is talking about AI, and...
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Staying relevant Or not. My fears melted away. And in their place came acceptance. All this vast majesty of...
5th Aug 2025
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Staying relevant

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

5th Aug 2025
Or not. My fears melted away. And in their place came acceptance. All this vast majesty of creation. It had to mean something. And then I meant something, too. Yes, smaller than the smallest, I meant something too. To God, there is no zero. I still exist. —  The Incredible...
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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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The product design talent crisis Airbnb, the paragon of a “design-led” company, is only hiring a single designer. The job requires...
31st Jul 2025
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The product design talent crisis

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

31st Jul 2025
Airbnb, the paragon of a “design-led” company, is only hiring a single designer. The job requires more than a decade of experience. There are probably hundreds (possibly thousands) of applicants. The fact that a company known for its design culture is investing only at the top of...
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Responsive video is (almost) easy now
20th Jul 2025
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Responsive video is (almost) easy now

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

20th Jul 2025
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head on the cloud, feet on the ground A conversation with Sari Azout of Sublime
17th Jul 2025
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head on the cloud, feet on the ground

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17th Jul 2025
A conversation with Sari Azout of Sublime
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Fonts In Use is not active on Instagram Contributed by Nick Sherman Fonts In Use. License: CC BY-SA. The Fonts In Use staff was never...
15th Jul 2025
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Fonts In Use is not active on Instagram

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

15th Jul 2025
Contributed by Nick Sherman Fonts In Use. License: CC BY-SA. The Fonts In Use staff was never especially enthusiastic about maintaining our account on Instagram. The platform is antithetical to so much of the what we love on the web: hyperlinks, web feeds (e.g., RSS),...
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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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The secret of good metaphors Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
7th Jul 2025
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The secret of good metaphors

from UX Collective [alt+shift+b] in design

7th Jul 2025
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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Bears Will Be Boys How and why do we gender animals in stories?
7th Jul 2025
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Bears Will Be Boys

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

7th Jul 2025
How and why do we gender animals in stories?
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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

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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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Liquid Glass isn’t a design failure; it is Apple’s most tactile digital future yet Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
23rd Jun 2025
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Liquid Glass isn’t a design failure; it is Apple’s most tactile digital future yet

from UX Collective [alt+shift+b] in design

23rd Jun 2025
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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Death by a Thousand Buttons — from the Desk of van Schneider — Edition №268 Welcome back to DESK! New York threw us another perfect weekend so I took the Escape Machine down to...
4th Jun 2025
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Death by a Thousand Buttons — from the Desk of van Schneider — Edition №268

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

4th Jun 2025
Welcome back to DESK! New York threw us another perfect weekend so I took the Escape Machine down to Balthazar in SoHo for some overpriced eggs benedict (a Tobias favorite, although I prefer it at PASTIS in Meatpacking District, same owner, better food). While enjoying my brunch...
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If This, Then That, Except for When... I’m not saying that “Agentic AI” will “never” replicate all tasks that workers are currently paid to...
3rd Jun 2025
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If This, Then That, Except for When...

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

3rd Jun 2025
I’m not saying that “Agentic AI” will “never” replicate all tasks that workers are currently paid to complete, but I strongly suspect that current agents have an extremely limited task scope. As exhibit A, I submit this podcast episode, in which Agentic AI is sold on the basis...
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ISA ENERGIA Offices by Casbro Spa Casbro Spa designed the ISA ENERGIA offices in Santiago to embody sustainability and employee...
2nd Jun 2025
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ISA ENERGIA Offices by Casbro Spa

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2nd Jun 2025
Casbro Spa designed the ISA ENERGIA offices in Santiago to embody sustainability and employee well-being through flexible spaces that maximize...
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A UX Review of Peugeot’s New Interior: When Design Ambition Meets Software Reality The Panorama i-Cockpit is the latest iteration of the i-Cockpit that debuted in the 2012 Peugeot...
1st Jun 2025
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A UX Review of Peugeot’s New Interior: When Design Ambition Meets Software Reality

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

1st Jun 2025
The Panorama i-Cockpit is the latest iteration of the i-Cockpit that debuted in the 2012 Peugeot 208. The i-Cockpit's main innovation is…
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A UX Review of Peugeot’s New Interior: When Design Ambition Meets Software Reality Does Peugeot's software match the excellent hardware?
1st Jun 2025
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A UX Review of Peugeot’s New Interior: When Design Ambition Meets Software Reality

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

1st Jun 2025
Does Peugeot's software match the excellent hardware?
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web app inspector @ sketch hi everyone 〜 ദ്ദി ( ᵔ ᗜ ᵔ ) we just launched a new version of sketch including awaited features...
28th May 2025
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web app inspector @ sketch

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

28th May 2025
hi everyone 〜 ദ്ദി ( ᵔ ᗜ ᵔ ) we just launched a new version of sketch including awaited features such as stacks, frames, and graphics, along with a lot of other new features. while we prepared the inspector on the web app to display the new properties that come with these...
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3 lessons from Jony Ive I nearly walked away from writing this essay. Trendy or current topics usually make me turn the...
27th May 2025
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3 lessons from Jony Ive

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

27th May 2025
I nearly walked away from writing this essay. Trendy or current topics usually make me turn the other way, but I'm making an exception today. I'm not sure if you watched the interview with Jony Ive and Patrick (CEO of Stripe) last week. It's
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A morning’s tale Editor’s Note || Our New York apartment is home to three humans and three cats: Snow White, Mango,...
10th May 2025
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A morning’s tale

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

10th May 2025
Editor’s Note || Our New York apartment is home to three humans and three cats: Snow White, Mango, and young Jasper. Woke to pee 2:00 am. Entered bathroom. Narrowly avoided slipping on a small lake of Snow White’s urine. Beheld a giant fat shit she’d left on the stone bath...
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Are you more likely to die on your birthday? Are you more likely to die on your birthday? Yes.
8th May 2025
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Are you more likely to die on your birthday?

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

8th May 2025
Are you more likely to die on your birthday? Yes.
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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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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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Write a very concise static site generator with Origami expressions
2nd May 2025
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Write a very concise static site generator with Origami expressions

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

2nd May 2025
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We Cannot Talk About AI Without Talking About Capitalism, Fascism, and Liberty Let me begin with a disambiguation: I’m not talking about AI as some theoretical intelligence...
2nd May 2025
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We Cannot Talk About AI Without Talking About Capitalism, Fascism, and Liberty

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

2nd May 2025
Let me begin with a disambiguation: I’m not talking about AI as some theoretical intelligence emerging from non-biological form — the sentient computer of science fiction. That, I suppose, can be thought about in an intellectual vacuum, to a point. I’m talking about AI, the...
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The history of album art Album art didn’t always exist. In the early 1900s, recorded music was still a novelty, overshadowed...
2nd May 2025
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The history of album art

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

2nd May 2025
Album art didn’t always exist. In the early 1900s, recorded music was still a novelty, overshadowed by sales of sheet music. Early vinyl records were vastly different from what we think of today: discs were sold individually and could only hold up to four minutes of music per...
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The history of album art Album art didn’t always exist. In the early 1900s, recorded music was still a novelty, overshadowed...
2nd May 2025
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The history of album art

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

2nd May 2025
Album art didn’t always exist. In the early 1900s, recorded music was still a novelty, overshadowed by sales of sheet music. Early vinyl records were vastly different from what we think of today: discs were sold individually and could only hold up to four minutes of music per...
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web iterations @ sketch hi everyone 〜 ♪(๑ᴖ◡ᴖ๑)♪ just wanted to share a few bits of work i’ve been recently doing at Sketch 〜...
24th Apr 2025
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web iterations @ sketch

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

24th Apr 2025
hi everyone 〜 ♪(๑ᴖ◡ᴖ๑)♪ just wanted to share a few bits of work i’ve been recently doing at Sketch 〜 together with the team we updated the typeface on the web app and adjusted all the icons to match the look & feel of the mac app. i wrote a little bit more about icons...
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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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Managing friction I thought lately about what has changed in my life over the years. People change (even if they don't...
8th Apr 2025
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Managing friction

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

8th Apr 2025
I thought lately about what has changed in my life over the years. People change (even if they don't admit it). And there are always some sort of triggers that cause these changes. Some people start a habit of running, maybe; some start hanging out with friends who
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Discernment in the Digital Age How elimination, curation, and optimization can help us see through the technological...
8th Apr 2025
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Discernment in the Digital Age

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

8th Apr 2025
How elimination, curation, and optimization can help us see through the technological mirror. Technology functions as both mirror and lens — reflecting our self-image while simultaneously shaping how we see everything else. This metaphor of recursion, while perhaps obvious...
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Home science and engineering projects that my kids and I enjoyed
2nd Apr 2025
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Home science and engineering projects that my kids and I enjoyed

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

2nd Apr 2025
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Who turned off the juice? Beloved reader, I spent 90 minutes on hold with Con Edison yesterday, getting my power turned back...
1st Apr 2025
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Who turned off the juice?

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

1st Apr 2025
Beloved reader, I spent 90 minutes on hold with Con Edison yesterday, getting my power turned back on after a billing contretemps. The whole 90 minutes, my brain’s shrieking, “You’re having a panic attack!” And maybe I was. I could rattle off my diagnoses, but the simplest way...
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Monarch by OPEN Strategy & Design MONARCH – A ROYAL WELCOME CRAFTING A LEGACY For forty years, Mansion House has stood for ‘A Warm...
1st Apr 2025
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Monarch by OPEN Strategy & Design

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1st Apr 2025
MONARCH – A ROYAL WELCOME CRAFTING A LEGACY For forty years, Mansion House has stood for ‘A Warm Welcome’, a...
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The Generational Legacy of Samples in Music We trace musical DNA from the classical "Hall of the Mountain King" to 2pac's "Hit Em Up."
1st Apr 2025
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The Generational Legacy of Samples in Music

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

1st Apr 2025
We trace musical DNA from the classical "Hall of the Mountain King" to 2pac's "Hit Em Up."
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The case against conversational interfaces 01 Intro Conversational interfaces are a bit of a meme. Every couple of years a shiny new AI...
27th Mar 2025
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The case against conversational interfaces

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

27th Mar 2025
01 Intro Conversational interfaces are a bit of a meme. Every couple of years a shiny new AI development emerges and people in tech go “This is it! The next computing paradigm is here! We’ll only use natural language going forward!”. But then nothing actually changes and we...
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Surf the browser A guest's identity
27th Mar 2025
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Surf the browser

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

27th Mar 2025
A guest's identity
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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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Blog Questions Challenge Hey there. It has been a minute since my last post. I was semi-recently tagged by Zach Leatherman to...
25th Mar 2025
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Blog Questions Challenge

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

25th Mar 2025
Hey there. It has been a minute since my last post. I was semi-recently tagged by Zach Leatherman to (optionally) participate in this year's Blog Questions Challenge. I had planned on doing it then. But life really hit hard as we entered this year and it has not let up. Energy...
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Design for a Small Planet Back in 1971, “Diet for a Small Planet” by Frances Moore Lappé made it clear the costs of eating...
18th Mar 2025
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Design for a Small Planet

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

18th Mar 2025
Back in 1971, “Diet for a Small Planet” by Frances Moore Lappé made it clear the costs of eating meat were far greater than we had assumed. If we wanted the planet to thrive, we needed to shift to a more resource-efficient way to eat. UX Design is going through its own “you cost...
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Writing a VS Code extension in ES modules in early 2025
17th Mar 2025
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Writing a VS Code extension in ES modules in early 2025

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

17th Mar 2025
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Your opt-innie wants to talk to your opt-outtie. Here’s a fact: “Opt-in” is great for programs a platform controls, but meaningless when that...
15th Mar 2025
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Your opt-innie wants to talk to your opt-outtie.

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

15th Mar 2025
Here’s a fact: “Opt-in” is great for programs a platform controls, but meaningless when that platform has no control. Take, for example, oh, I don’t know, let’s say AI companies scraping web content without your permission. The heart wants to make content scraping permissions...
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icons @ sketch hi everyone 〜 ♪(๑ᴖ◡ᴖ๑)♪ i’ve been debating how to use this blog – for now i’ve renamed it from...
14th Mar 2025
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icons @ sketch

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

14th Mar 2025
hi everyone 〜 ♪(๑ᴖ◡ᴖ๑)♪ i’ve been debating how to use this blog – for now i’ve renamed it from “blog” to “journal” as i want to keep posts written from a more personal point of view and include a closer look at some of the design work. for the past week i spent sometime drawing...
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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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Avizva Solutions Offices by Designforth Interiors Designforth Interiors created a functional and flexible office space in Indore for Avizva, focusing...
3rd Mar 2025
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Avizva Solutions Offices by Designforth Interiors

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3rd Mar 2025
Designforth Interiors created a functional and flexible office space in Indore for Avizva, focusing on spatial optimization, collaboration, and cultural...
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HAVE YOU PREORDERED YOUR COPY OF MELISSA’S NEW BOOK YET? In her best-selling book, Living Well By Design, Melissa Penfold addressed the basics of interior...
3rd Mar 2025
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HAVE YOU PREORDERED YOUR COPY OF MELISSA’S NEW BOOK YET?

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

3rd Mar 2025
In her best-selling book, Living Well By Design, Melissa Penfold addressed the basics of interior decorating.  Now she turns her attention to demonstrating what a powerful force design can be in boosting our physical and emotional well-being in her newest book, ‘Natural Living By...
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The Middle Ages Follow hundreds of kids as they navigate their trecherous middle school years.
3rd Mar 2025
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The Middle Ages

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

3rd Mar 2025
Follow hundreds of kids as they navigate their trecherous middle school years.
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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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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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NON-OBVIOUS MEGA DESIGN TRENDS: HOW TO SEE WHAT OTHERS MISS If you want to understand what’s going to be big in design this year, peer into the world’s psyche....
20th Feb 2025
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NON-OBVIOUS MEGA DESIGN TRENDS: HOW TO SEE WHAT OTHERS MISS

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

20th Feb 2025
If you want to understand what’s going to be big in design this year, peer into the world’s psyche. When the world was scared and isolated during the Covid shutdown, we decorated for comfort. This year, weary and worried after a stretch of inflation and political uncertainty,...
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Inside the dark forests of the internet This is the second part of a series on the identity of social networks:
12th Feb 2025
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Inside the dark forests of the internet

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

12th Feb 2025
This is the second part of a series on the identity of social networks:
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Reactive Haptics When people think of haptics, they usually think of typing on mobile keyboards or tapping on...
11th Feb 2025
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Reactive Haptics

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

11th Feb 2025
When people think of haptics, they usually think of typing on mobile keyboards or tapping on trackpads. While impressive, these are fairly limited uses of haptics, both attempting to recreate a simple “click.” These are one-shot user events that don’t respond dynamically to the...
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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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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

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

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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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

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

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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UI Pace Layers Jeremy Keith, Chris Coyier, and others (see Jeremy’s post) have written about the idea of “pace...
2nd Feb 2025
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UI Pace Layers

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

2nd Feb 2025
Jeremy Keith, Chris Coyier, and others (see Jeremy’s post) have written about the idea of “pace layers” and now I’m going to take a stab at applying it to user interface primitives. First, let’s start with a line of reasoning: Common user interface controls — such as checkboxes...
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Ten Books About AI Written Before the Year 2000 This by no means a definitive list, so don’t @ me! AI is an inescapable subject. There’s obviously...
1st Feb 2025
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Ten Books About AI Written Before the Year 2000

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

1st Feb 2025
This by no means a definitive list, so don’t @ me! AI is an inescapable subject. There’s obviously an incredible headwind behind the computing progress of the last handful of years — not to mention the usual avarice — but there has also been nearly a century of thought put...
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The Subtle Art of Designing Physical Controls for Cars Two years ago, I explored how to rethink climate controls in cars. I was frustrated by carmakers...
1st Feb 2025
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The Subtle Art of Designing Physical Controls for Cars

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

1st Feb 2025
Two years ago, I explored how to rethink climate controls in cars. I was frustrated by carmakers relying too heavily on touch screens and…
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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

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

1st Feb 2025
Prototyping a concept for simpler, physical climate controls
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I wrote a screenplay for a programming language introduction, then wrote a program to turn that into...
22nd Jan 2025
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I wrote a screenplay for a programming language introduction, then wrote a program to turn that into a motion comic

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

22nd Jan 2025
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Four years at PlanetScale It’s been four years since I joined PlanetScale. In this post, I'm reflecting on my journey and...
20th Jan 2025
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Four years at PlanetScale

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

20th Jan 2025
It’s been four years since I joined PlanetScale. In this post, I'm reflecting on my journey and accomplishments during this period.
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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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a new space over the years, I’ve used multiple services to host my website. from geocities, to the most recent...
19th Jan 2025
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a new space

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

19th Jan 2025
over the years, I’ve used multiple services to host my website. from geocities, to the most recent read.cv — which is getting sold to perplexity — ive enjoyed building, designing and planning my personal site. i moved to pika.page today and im excited to build a small space where...
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Chicken accessories for chickens This post originally appeared on thoughtbot.com I was browsing an online marketplace the other day...
17th Jan 2025
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Chicken accessories for chickens

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

17th Jan 2025
This post originally appeared on thoughtbot.com I was browsing an online marketplace the other day because I was a bit bored, and because I have a unique need to seek out dark patterns. Something caught my eye as I scrolled. Amongst all the other suspiciously cheap items, was a...
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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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Human-First Interaction (in a Machine-Driven World) As artificial intelligence (AI) agents increasingly mediate our digital experiences, the role of...
10th Jan 2025
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Human-First Interaction (in a Machine-Driven World)

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

10th Jan 2025
As artificial intelligence (AI) agents increasingly mediate our digital experiences, the role of human interaction with information is evolving. Machines are becoming our primary intermediaries for searching, synthesizing, and summarizing information, often performing these tasks...
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You Can Now Subscribe To My Blog via Email I don’t think you should. I think you should use RSS. But if you want posts delivered directly to...
4th Jan 2025
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You Can Now Subscribe To My Blog via Email

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

4th Jan 2025
I don’t think you should. I think you should use RSS. But if you want posts delivered directly to your email, you can do that now. However, disclaimer: I don’t know if I’ll keep this feature. It costs me money. And I don’t monetize my blog. So sending you an email costs me...
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Junshanye x Gugo Brand – The national tea aesthetics of Valley Creation Walking in secret places, talking to mountains and seas Transcribing the original power of nature...
2nd Jan 2025
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Junshanye x Gugo Brand – The national tea aesthetics of Valley Creation

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2nd Jan 2025
Walking in secret places, talking to mountains and seas Transcribing the original power of nature Starting the journey of seeking...
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How to get good at anything creative
29th Dec 2024
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How to get good at anything creative

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

29th Dec 2024
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Organization – Office – 2024 After the kitchen, the office is still the most used room in our home. This is how we have optimized...
21st Dec 2024
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Organization – Office – 2024

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

21st Dec 2024
After the kitchen, the office is still the most used room in our home. This is how we have optimized it this year. About a year and a half ago, I wrote a long entry to this blog about how we keep this office space organized. While much of it is still as it was then, it is...
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WHEN Designed by Universal Favourite, Sydney.
16th Dec 2024
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WHEN

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16th Dec 2024
Designed by Universal Favourite, Sydney.
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The Pixel Canvas Shimmer Effect I recently stumbled on a super cool, well-executed hover effect from the clerk.com website where a...
3rd Dec 2024
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The Pixel Canvas Shimmer Effect

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

3rd Dec 2024
I recently stumbled on a super cool, well-executed hover effect from the clerk.com website where a bloom of tiny pixels light up, their glow staggering from the center to the edges of its container. With some available free time over this Thanksgiving break, I hacked together my...
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Contrast Is Clarifying Which is best? Generalist or specialist? Native or web? Web site or web app? JavaScript or...
2nd Dec 2024
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Contrast Is Clarifying

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

2nd Dec 2024
Which is best? Generalist or specialist? Native or web? Web site or web app? JavaScript or Typescript? Framework or library? Server side or client side? Photoshop or Sketch or Figma? Designing in a tool or design in the browser? Skueomorphic or flat? Mac or PC or Linux? This list...
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I'm writing a zine Will I become an author now?
2nd Dec 2024
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I'm writing a zine

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2nd Dec 2024
Will I become an author now?
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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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