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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes on Google Search Now Requiring JavaScript John Gruber has a post about how Google’s search results now require JavaScript[1]. Why? Here’s...
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John Gruber has a post about how Google’s search results now require JavaScript[1]. Why? Here’s Google: the change is intended to “better protect” Google Search against malicious activity, such as bots and spam Lol, the irony. Let’s turn to JavaScript for protection, as if the...
Retail Design Blog
Kedrovka cedar milk by Maria Korneva Kedrovka is a brand of plant-based milk crafted for those who care about their health, value natural...
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Kedrovka is a brand of plant-based milk crafted for those who care about their health, value natural ingredients, and seek...
Fatih Arslan
The Zettelkasten note taking methodology. My thoughts about the Zettelkasten (Slip box) note taking methodology invented by the German...
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My thoughts about the Zettelkasten (Slip box) note taking methodology invented by the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann.
Retail Design Blog
DJI flagship store by Various Associates Chinese interior studio Various Associates has completed an irregular pyramid-shaped flagship store...
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Chinese interior studio Various Associates has completed an irregular pyramid-shaped flagship store for drone brand DJI in Shenzhen, China. Located...
Christopher Butler
The Empty Hours AI promises to automate both work and leisure. What will we do then? In 2005, I lived high up...
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AI promises to automate both work and leisure. What will we do then? In 2005, I lived high up on a hill in Penang, from where I could literally watch the tech industry reshape the island and the nearby mainland. The common wisdom then was that automation would soon empty the...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Missed Connections Let me tell you about one of the best feelings. You have a problem. You bang your head on it for a...
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Let me tell you about one of the best feelings. You have a problem. You bang your head on it for a while. Through the banging, you formulate a string of keywords describing the problem. You put those words into a search engine. You land on a forum or a blog post and read someone...
UX Collective
Beautiful, boring, and without soul Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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Retail Design Blog
AMOUAGE opens a new flagship in the historic heart of the Zhang Yuan landmark in Shanghai, China Amouage, the Omani House of High Perfumery, expands its global presence with its first Asian...
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Christopher Butler
The Testing Trap Meaningful design decisions flow from clear intent, not from data. “We don’t know what people...
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Meaningful design decisions flow from clear intent, not from data. “We don’t know what people want. We don’t even know what they do.” This confession — which so many clients never truly say but should — drives an almost compulsive need for testing and validation. Heat...
Fatih Arslan
My first lighting design: Block Lamp After designing a few gadget-related projects, I decided to take on a new challenge: designing a...
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After designing a few gadget-related projects, I decided to take on a new challenge: designing a lightning from scratch. Lightning is an area of fascination for me. I have an ongoing draft post about the various designer lamps in my home that I plan to publish soon. In the...
Retail Design Blog
Nanobébé Offices by Switchup Switchup designed Nanobébé’s office with a focus on simplicity, natural light, and glass dividers,...
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Switchup designed Nanobébé’s office with a focus on simplicity, natural light, and glass dividers, creating a modern, collaborative space that...
Christopher Butler
The Exodus A product marketing consultant with over a decade of experience is leaving to pursue art,...
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A product marketing consultant with over a decade of experience is leaving to pursue art, illustration, and poetry. Another designer, burned out on growing her business, is pivoting to focus on fitness instead. These aren’t just isolated anecdotes — they’re part of an emerging...
Retail Design Blog
Māsa Māsa is a restaurant in Riga with natural wine and local products from Latvian farmers. The clients...
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Māsa is a restaurant in Riga with natural wine and local products from Latvian farmers. The clients are a couple...
Christopher Butler
Dreams in the Machine When AI meets the unconscious… I have had dreams I will never forget. Long, vivid experiences...
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When AI meets the unconscious… I have had dreams I will never forget. Long, vivid experiences with plot twists and turns that confound the notion that dreaming is simply the reorganization of day residue. I have discovered and created new things, written essays, stories, and...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Consistency For Who? Thoughts on Overriding Basic Computing Controls A note before we start: I don’t know how much of this I believe. I’m sketching out some feelings in...
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A note before we start: I don’t know how much of this I believe. I’m sketching out some feelings in this post and thinking through whether it actually makes any sense. I’d be curious where other folks land on this. I’m not sure I totally understand this impulse we have on the...
Retail Design Blog
Hempure by Jose Manuel Vega Hempure is one of those projects that, unfortunately, didn’t come to fruition, but that deserves to...
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Hempure is one of those projects that, unfortunately, didn’t come to fruition, but that deserves to be seen and appreciated....
Christopher Butler
Who is the internet for? SEO, Clickless Search, and the AInternet Imagine designing and building a home while its...
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SEO, Clickless Search, and the AInternet Imagine designing and building a home while its residents continued living in it. What you create is highly customized to them because you observe them living in real time and make what they need. One day, while you’re still working,...
Retail Design Blog
Alap Sardines by Rajib Bhuiyan Raja Alap Sardines by Rajib Bhuiyan Raja
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Christopher Butler
The Value of Friction What technology’s drive for seamlessness gets wrong. I’ve been thinking lately about...
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What technology’s drive for seamlessness gets wrong. I’ve been thinking lately about friction — not the physical force, but the small resistances we encounter in daily life. The tech industry has made eliminating friction its north star, pursuing ever more seamless...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Relationship Advice for AI You know what’s really helpful in solving my own problems? Writing them down, sending them to...
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You know what’s really helpful in solving my own problems? Writing them down, sending them to someone, and not hearing back. You ever do that? For me, it’s a bulletproof method to solving problems. It’s akin to those moments when you go to someone with a problem, you talk it...
Fatih Arslan
Four years at PlanetScale It’s been four years since I joined PlanetScale. In this post, I'm reflecting on my journey and...
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It’s been four years since I joined PlanetScale. In this post, I'm reflecting on my journey and accomplishments during this period.
Retail Design Blog
Verse Wine by OA Design Wine can be thought of as a complex tapestry of flavors and sensations, ranging from sweet to dry,...
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Wine can be thought of as a complex tapestry of flavors and sensations, ranging from sweet to dry, crisp to...
UX Collective
Sidebar is back from its break Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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Retail Design Blog
Yohji Yamamoto store by OSO Following last year’s store openings in Shanghai and Beijing, fashion brand Yohji Yamamoto has...
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Following last year’s store openings in Shanghai and Beijing, fashion brand Yohji Yamamoto has inaugurated a new boutique in another...
Christopher Butler
The Unpublishable On self-censorship in a connected world. On my computer is a file named “unpublishable.txt”....
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On self-censorship in a connected world. On my computer is a file named “unpublishable.txt”. Its content is right there on the label: Fragments of unworthy ideas have accumulated there for years, along with bits of things I’ve held back for other reasons — fear not least...
Melissa Penfold
THE 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...
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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...
Christopher Butler
Windows, Frames, and Other Realities Through the lens of a child’s camera, decades of interface design, and thousands of years of...
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Through the lens of a child’s camera, decades of interface design, and thousands of years of wondering. My daughter has discovered the joy of photography through a clever little child’s digital camera. She’s particularly fascinated by its ability to overlay different frames...
Retail Design Blog
LAPACA Baturrocks by i g l o o studio LAPACA, a café and chocolate shop in Huesca, Spain, founded by Silvia Buil and Raúl Bernal, Spain’s...
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LAPACA, a café and chocolate shop in Huesca, Spain, founded by Silvia Buil and Raúl Bernal, Spain’s Best Chocolatier of...
Christopher Butler
The Pigeonhole Principle Why perfect organization is not possible. I stare at the blank index pages of my new...
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Why perfect organization is not possible. I stare at the blank index pages of my new commonplace book, my pen hovering uncertainly. More than two decades of digital design work, and I’m stumped by the simple task of organizing an analog notebook. Come on, I thought to...
Retail Design Blog
NUNU Hamburger NUNU Hamburger is a new restaurant by chef Yuriy Nikityuk, the founder of the NUNU street food...
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NUNU Hamburger is a new restaurant by chef Yuriy Nikityuk, the founder of the NUNU street food chain. Following our...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Tools As Ways of Being I took notes from Sean Voisen’s call for more hybrid tools. He speaks for a moment on generative AI...
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I took notes from Sean Voisen’s call for more hybrid tools. He speaks for a moment on generative AI and its inclusion into existing tools, but reading between the lines the insight I found was how our tools can trigger empathy for people and disciplines: One of the greatest goals...
Product Identity
Looking for humanness in the world wide social This is the first part of a series on the identity of social networks.
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Retail Design Blog
Nudo Salvaje Mezcal by Hi estudio From the union of essential elements like earth, agave, and fire emerges the concept of NUDO, a...
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From the union of essential elements like earth, agave, and fire emerges the concept of NUDO, a representation that evokes...
Christopher Butler
Persuasion is Plural Earn attention before you use it. Persuasion is never one thing. It’s at least two: first,...
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Earn attention before you use it. Persuasion is never one thing. It’s at least two: first, persuading someone to pay attention, and second, persuading them that your thing is worth their time, money, or effort. Most marketers and designers focus their energy on the second...
Retail Design Blog
Paulista Store by Contract Workplaces Paulista is an exclusive Brazilian-origin multi-brand women’s clothing store. The brand has...
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Paulista is an exclusive Brazilian-origin multi-brand women’s clothing store. The brand has established itself in Montevideo to bring a limited...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Using Locally-Installed CLI Tools In Node Projects You have a dependency that provides a CLI tool, how do you use it? Even though you did npm i from...
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You have a dependency that provides a CLI tool, how do you use it? Even though you did npm i from your project root, if you run <tool> <command> it won’t work because that tool is not in your global path. You could install <tool> globally, but then if you have <tool> in multiple...
The DESK Magazine
Embracing Friction — From the Desk of van Schneider — Edition №254
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Retail Design Blog
Lingyun Tang hot spring water by Lion Peng Lingyun Tang brand, dedicated to hot spring healing aesthetics. The design focuses on a number of...
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Lingyun Tang brand, dedicated to hot spring healing aesthetics. The design focuses on a number of key dimensions, aiming to...
UX Collective
Meta: you can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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Retail Design Blog
Donut of Curiosity store As the capital city of a booming economy, Jakarta has been on a roll for quite some time, featuring...
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As the capital city of a booming economy, Jakarta has been on a roll for quite some time, featuring a...
Christopher Butler
The Geography of Interface Is there a pattern language for digital spaces? We navigate digital spaces as if they were...
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Is there a pattern language for digital spaces? We navigate digital spaces as if they were physical ones. We “visit” websites, “go to” pages, get “lost” in apps, and find our way “back” to where we started. These spatial metaphors are so deeply embedded in how we think about...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Gotchas in Naming CSS View Transitions I’m playing with making cross-document view transitions work on this blog. Nothing fancy. Mostly...
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I’m playing with making cross-document view transitions work on this blog. Nothing fancy. Mostly copying how Dave Rupert does it on his site where you get a cross-fade animation on the whole page generally, and a little position animation on the page title specifically. To...
Retail Design Blog
Isle Of Mull Soap by My Creative Isle Of Mull Soap has been handmade in Tobermory by local couple Stu & Sophie since 2008. The shop...
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Isle Of Mull Soap has been handmade in Tobermory by local couple Stu & Sophie since 2008. The shop sits...
Christopher Butler
Human-First Interaction (in a Machine-Driven World) As artificial intelligence (AI) agents increasingly mediate our digital experiences, the role of...
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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...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Don’t Miss the Product for the Artifacts Ever hear that idiom, “Don’t miss the forest for the trees”? The idea being, you miss the bigger...
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Ever hear that idiom, “Don’t miss the forest for the trees”? The idea being, you miss the bigger picture because you’re focused on the minutia? Feels like the tech equivalent is: Don’t miss the product for the artifacts. Here’s Ryan Rendle in a recent piece on design...
Retail Design Blog
Immersive VR gaming arena and bar that has opened its first U.S. location in Seattle, Washington... Mirra is an immersive VR gaming arena and bar that has opened its first U.S. location in Bellevue,...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Social Inflation Imagine you’re on a social network and you start getting tons of followers. You love it! Your...
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Imagine you’re on a social network and you start getting tons of followers. You love it! Your follower count is going up! Instead of a nobody with a couple hundred followers, you’ve bypassed the 1k+ mark and it keeps going! You’re ecstatic! This is the “next step” you were...
Retail Design Blog
Moment Boutique Store by Modum Atelier Moment boutique store is located in Cinnalane, Nanjing, where surrounded by a historic architectural...
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Moment boutique store is located in Cinnalane, Nanjing, where surrounded by a historic architectural complex, with the famous Ganxi Mansion...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Push Notifications Are Organizational Marshmallows It’s a notifications’ world, we’re just living in it. Companies can’t help but try and get your...
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It’s a notifications’ world, we’re just living in it. Companies can’t help but try and get your attention via email, text, or push notifications and drive you to their app. Push notifications in particular are a powerful tool — and where there’s power, there’s abuse. I’m sure...
UX Collective
Reclaiming your humanity in an algorithmic world Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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Retail Design Blog
Unity Office Design by Millennium Contracts Unity is a video game software development company based in San Fransisco. Unity tasked Millennium...
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Unity is a video game software development company based in San Fransisco. Unity tasked Millennium Contracts with completing the design...
The DESK Magazine
The place where it all started — DESK Edition №253
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
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...
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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...
Retail Design Blog
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...
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Christopher Butler
Year in Review – 2024 The highs and lows of the year in exhaustive detail. This is going to be a long post. I’ve...
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The highs and lows of the year in exhaustive detail. This is going to be a long post. I’ve broken it up into a few sections, so if one is of greater interest, just hop to it. Overview At Work Magnolia Art Reading Music DIY Projects Overview What a year!...
Ryan Mulligan
Some Things About Keyframes Whether you've barely scratched the surface of keyframe animations in CSS or fancy yourself as a...
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Whether you've barely scratched the surface of keyframe animations in CSS or fancy yourself as a seasoned pro, I suggest reading An Interactive Guide to Keyframe Animations. Josh (as always) does an impeccable deep dive that includes interactive demos for multi-step animations,...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Christmas Day It’s Christmas circa 2004. My teenage brothers, sisters, and I have all finished opening presents...
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It’s Christmas circa 2004. My teenage brothers, sisters, and I have all finished opening presents and we’re more than content to have absolutely nothing to do — it’s Christmas day after all! But not Dad. He’s in the bathroom laying tile. Again, this is Christmas day and Dad is on...
Koos Looijesteijn
How to get good at anything creative
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Retail Design Blog
FRU:DOZA Protein Ice Cream by Brama Branding Ice-Cream with Powerful Numbers Package design for a new line of ice-cream rich in protein – it...
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Ice-Cream with Powerful Numbers Package design for a new line of ice-cream rich in protein – it contains up to...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Making o(m)g:image, Part IV: URLs This is part four of my series of posts describing how I made my quiz game o(m)g:image. Project...
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This is part four of my series of posts describing how I made my quiz game o(m)g:image. Project Announcement Pt. I: Design Iterations Pt. II: As Little JS As Possible Pt. III: The HTML Pt. IV: URLs The design of the game is simple: Each page has one question with four possible...
Retail Design Blog
McKenzie 10-Year Barrel Reserve Rum by Works Design Group Since re-vamping the branding and some marketing materials, Finger Lakes Distilling recently asked...
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Since re-vamping the branding and some marketing materials, Finger Lakes Distilling recently asked us to help design the packaging for...
UX Collective
Our top UX stories this year Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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Ryan Mulligan
Scrolling Rails and Button Controls Once again, here I am, hackin' away on horizontal scroll ideas. This iteration starts with a custom...
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Once again, here I am, hackin' away on horizontal scroll ideas. This iteration starts with a custom HTML tag. All the necessities for scroll overflow, scroll snapping, and row layout are handled with CSS. Then, as a little progressive enhancement treat, button elements are...
Christopher Butler
Organization – Office – 2024 After the kitchen, the office is still the most used room in our home. This is how we have optimized...
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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...
Retail Design Blog
Lingjiang x Guyi Design A Masterpiece of Craftsmanship: The National Craftsman-Made Liquor Work Name: Lingjiang · Great...
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A Masterpiece of Craftsmanship: The National Craftsman-Made Liquor Work Name: Lingjiang · Great Country Craftsmanship Client Name: Guizhou Lingjiang Liquor...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Making o(m)g:image, Part III: The HTML This is part three of my series of posts describing how I made my quiz game o(m)g:image. Project...
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This is part three of my series of posts describing how I made my quiz game o(m)g:image. Project Announcement Pt. I: Design Iterations Pt. II: As Little JS As Possible Pt. III: The HTML o(m)g:image is presented like a quiz: You get one question at a time When you choose an...
Retail Design Blog
union.bistro The union.bistro project combines functionality, aesthetics, and an atmosphere inspired by culinary...
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The union.bistro project combines functionality, aesthetics, and an atmosphere inspired by culinary art. Its design integrates materials, colors, textures, and...
UX Collective
Has Duolingo’s Year in Review outshone Spotify Wrapped? Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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Retail Design Blog
RACKS café by Kidz Online gaming is an integral part of lifestyle for the Millennial and Gen Z demographics, providing...
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Online gaming is an integral part of lifestyle for the Millennial and Gen Z demographics, providing both a level of...
Identity Designed
WHEN Designed by Universal Favourite, Sydney.
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Retail Design Blog
Tate Britain Exhibition by Millennium Contracts Tate Britain hosted ‘The Squash’, an ambitious installation by British artist Anthea Hamilton, which...
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Tate Britain hosted ‘The Squash’, an ambitious installation by British artist Anthea Hamilton, which took over the iconic Duveen Galleries....
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Making o(m)g:image, Part II: As Little JS As Possible This is part two of my series of posts describing how I made my quiz game o(m)g:image. Project...
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This is part two of my series of posts describing how I made my quiz game o(m)g:image. Project Announcement Pt. I: Design Iterations Pt. II: As Little JS As Possible One of my goals when making this project was to use as little JavaScript as possible. In retrospect, I have to...
Retail Design Blog
Eppendorf Offices by Giant Leap Giant Leap designed Eppendorf’s new office space in Midrand, South Africa, featuring a...
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Giant Leap designed Eppendorf’s new office space in Midrand, South Africa, featuring a Scandinavian-inspired aesthetic with minimalistic, functional elements and...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Introducing o(m)g:image I was popping off on Mastodon with an idea for a physical board game then decided to just make a...
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I was popping off on Mastodon with an idea for a physical board game then decided to just make a digital version. It’s called “o(m)g:image” and you can play it now: omgimg.jim-nielsen.com Here’s the idea: You have a bunch images Each image is a real-life og:image pulled from an...
UX Collective
A love letter about change Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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Retail Design Blog
RUBEN – Hamburger restaurant Design and planning of an area of ​​85 square meters. A bar in the center of a space combined...
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Design and planning of an area of ​​85 square meters. A bar in the center of a space combined with...
Ryan Mulligan
The Shape of Runs to Come Over the last few months or so, I have been fairly consistent with getting outside for Sunday...
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Over the last few months or so, I have been fairly consistent with getting outside for Sunday morning runs. A series of lower body issues had prevented me from doing so for many years, but it was an exercise I had enjoyed back then. It took time to rebuild that habit and muscle...
Retail Design Blog
NIO House | Abu Dhabi: An Immersive Experience in Desert Modernity As NIO’s inaugural presence in the Abu Dhabi market, the design serves as a comprehensive...
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As NIO’s inaugural presence in the Abu Dhabi market, the design serves as a comprehensive introduction to the brand’s philosophy,...
Ryan Mulligan
The Pixel Canvas Shimmer Effect I recently stumbled on a super cool, well-executed hover effect from the clerk.com website where a...
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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...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Contrast Is Clarifying Which is best? Generalist or specialist? Native or web? Web site or web app? JavaScript or...
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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...
Product Identity
I'm writing a zine Will I become an author now?
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Retail Design Blog
128 BPM by Ximena Ureta Design Studio DESIGN / PROJECT NAME 128 Bpm PRIMARY FUNCTION Gin Packaging INSPIRATION The inspiration for this...
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DESIGN / PROJECT NAME 128 Bpm PRIMARY FUNCTION Gin Packaging INSPIRATION The inspiration for this project comes from songs rooted...
UX Collective
Creativity is the only thing Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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Retail Design Blog
Good Job Games Offices by Jeyan Ülkü Architects Good Job Games is a mobile gaming technology company characterized by a predominantly youthful...
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Good Job Games is a mobile gaming technology company characterized by a predominantly youthful workforce. Right from the beginning we...
Melissa Penfold
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...
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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...
Retail Design Blog
Furnish & Shade Furnish & Shade, located in Kirti Nagar, New Delhi, is a 6,500 sq. ft. retail space designed by OSA...
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Furnish & Shade, located in Kirti Nagar, New Delhi, is a 6,500 sq. ft. retail space designed by OSA Studio,...
Melissa Penfold
2025 PREDICTIONS ARE IN: DESIGN FORECAST FOR THE WHOLE HOUSE Style manifested in many forms over the last 12 months, as well as in our homes and gardens with the...
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Style manifested in many forms over the last 12 months, as well as in our homes and gardens with the way we decorate, entertain, and live. Of course style – and trends – are subjective, not to mention a subject of heated discussion – but each of the trends we discuss for the year...
The DESK Magazine
Black Friday deals on Semplice, mymind and Carbonmade Today I'm happy to share our gift to our beautiful creative community. These are the only deals we...
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Today I'm happy to share our gift to our beautiful creative community. These are the only deals we do all year, as our way of saying THANK YOU.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Nothing is Something There’s a post on htmx.org about why htmx wasn’t the right fit for a particular project (which is...
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There’s a post on htmx.org about why htmx wasn’t the right fit for a particular project (which is dope, we need more websites that admit their thing might not be the right thing all the time). The bit on AI being unfamiliar with their tool choice piqued my interest: It’s worth...
Retail Design Blog
Moas Group Offices by Perkins&Will Perkins&Will designed a sophisticated and versatile headquarters in São Paulo for Moas Group,...
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Perkins&Will designed a sophisticated and versatile headquarters in São Paulo for Moas Group, combining office and showroom spaces with a...
Nela Dunato Art &...
My new mixed media portrait painting process: more ease, confidence & fun In this episode of Nela’s Art Chat I share a watercolor & mixed media drawing and painting process...
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In this episode of Nela’s Art Chat I share a watercolor & mixed media drawing and painting process that I’ve developed in recent months, which enabled me to create the kind of paintings I want with more ease and confidence. I’ll be talking about the challenges with the "ugly...
Retail Design Blog
Warner Music Group and Spinnin’ Records Offices by HofmanDujardin HofmanDujardin designed the Warner Music Group and Spinnin’ Records office in Amsterdam, emphasizing...
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HofmanDujardin designed the Warner Music Group and Spinnin’ Records office in Amsterdam, emphasizing a music-driven, immersive environment that reflects the...
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485 MetaGalaxy is a designer cluster label dedicated to pushing the boundaries of design and leading future design trends. It...
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Federal Realty offices by AP+I Design Federal Realty partnered with AP+I Design to transform their new eight-story building near San...
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Federal Realty partnered with AP+I Design to transform their new eight-story building near San Jose’s Santana Row into a premier...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Captchas Turned Notification Exploits When my site analytics reported a large number of inbound traffic from Hacker News clones, I got...
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When my site analytics reported a large number of inbound traffic from Hacker News clones, I got curious and started clicking links.[1] I like to visit links. I am connoisseur of it. I love the feeling of landing on something you didn’t expect — which is precisely what...
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Bayer Offices by Contract Workplaces Until recently, the offices of the German chemical giant Bayer in Bogotá were located in an...
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Until recently, the offices of the German chemical giant Bayer in Bogotá were located in an industrial zone, far from...
Christopher Butler
The Books that Have Shaped My Technological Worldview This is a personal collection, subject to change at any time. A Pattern Language, by Christopher...
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This is a personal collection, subject to change at any time. A Pattern Language, by Christopher Alexander, Murray Silverstein, and Sara Ishikawa A classic on architecture and urban design that you’ll find on many lists like this. What keeps it here for me — as a text that has...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Named Blogs I think it’s endearing when people name their blog. I’m not talking about branding, like people do...
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I think it’s endearing when people name their blog. I’m not talking about branding, like people do with professional blogs or newsletters. I’m talking about personal blogs that people name out of care and idiosyncrasy. It’s endearing, because you brand things you own, you name...
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Eight Oaks Farm Distillery by Makers & Allies Eight Oaks Farm Distillery is so much more than whiskey. It’s a farm just as much as it is a...
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The Workshop at YCK by Raw Design Consultants Raw Design Consultants‘ latest project at Techpoint in Singapore features a dynamic coworking space...
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Raw Design Consultants‘ latest project at Techpoint in Singapore features a dynamic coworking space with a unique curved ceiling design,...
Christopher Butler
The Two Most Important Skills for Interaction Designers They are almost certainly not what you think they are. Good interaction design depends upon a...
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They are almost certainly not what you think they are. Good interaction design depends upon a very long list of skills, from a practical understanding of formal design concepts to the speed and efficiency with which you wield digital design tools and navigate a variety of...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Reading and Writing as Human Expression & Connection Why do we write? We write, in part, because our own reading was given as a gift to us and we want to...
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Why do we write? We write, in part, because our own reading was given as a gift to us and we want to extend that same magic we received to others. Here’s Mandy Brown (and my notes) in a recent article: The more compelling and interesting reason that most writers seek out readers...
Retail Design Blog
SUSHISAMBA Singapore Situated at the pinnacle of Singapore’s iconic Capital Tower, the newest member of the SUSHISAMBA...
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Situated at the pinnacle of Singapore’s iconic Capital Tower, the newest member of the SUSHISAMBA network, masterfully crafted by Kokaistudios,...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Beauty of Building Jan Miksovsky has an absolutely tremendous article about how he cobbled together some disparate...
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Jan Miksovsky has an absolutely tremendous article about how he cobbled together some disparate pieces of hardware and software in order to help improve the quality of life of his mother who has amnesia. Everything about this article illustrates what got me into making...
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H22 by PIXELAIN H22 – Perfume Bottle & Label Design Project Overview: This perfume design project for H22 was...
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H22 – Perfume Bottle & Label Design Project Overview: This perfume design project for H22 was crafted to embody elegance...
Nela Dunato Art &...
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...
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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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roarguns beijing store Beijing shop of the Japanese street-style fashion brand well known by the iconic “dual pistols”...
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Beijing shop of the Japanese street-style fashion brand well known by the iconic “dual pistols” logo, whose main shop is...
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How did a company acquisition feel like for a product designer Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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RUN TO THE FUTURE store by One Fine Day Studio & Partners Gender-neutral Chinese fashion brand RUN TO THE FUTURE is taking its operations to a higher level by...
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Fatih Arslan
New homepage design I changed my website’s design. I'm using the previous design since September 30, 2022 (when I moved...
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I changed my website’s design. I'm using the previous design since September 30, 2022 (when I moved to Ghost from Cloudflare Pages). The previous design served me well for the past two years, but it was time for a change. Firstly, I wanted to create a
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Are physical buttons going extinct? Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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Audemars Piguet office by Studio Banana Studio Banana designed an avant-garde work environment at Audemars Piguet Manufacture Le Locle,...
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Studio Banana designed an avant-garde work environment at Audemars Piguet Manufacture Le Locle, blending high-end manufacturing with biophilic design principles...
The DESK Magazine
mymind updates you might have missed We've released so many improvements and updates for mymind recently, these are old news by now.
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Kofan Coffee Shop by Makhno Studio Kofan Coffee Shop epitomizes the essence of third-wave coffee culture nestled in the heart of...
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Kofan Coffee Shop epitomizes the essence of third-wave coffee culture nestled in the heart of Kremenchuk. Our establishment is meticulously...
Christopher Butler
Periodical 21 – Working Spaces Working Spaces dezeen recently featured Nineteen Taiwanese architecture studios photographed by...
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Working Spaces dezeen recently featured Nineteen Taiwanese architecture studios photographed by Marc Goodwin. My favorite images are the ones that highlight the working nature of the spaces. And the spaces I am most interested in being in are those which embrace the...
Retail Design Blog
Purlieu Single Vineyard Wines by CF Napa Brand Design Purlieu Wines came to CF Napa to create a design system for their Single Vineyard wines. While the...
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Neovoyager album design by Mary Zaleska Album artwork for Neoquartet that I had the pleasure of designing. NeoVoyager is inspired by...
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Album artwork for Neoquartet that I had the pleasure of designing. NeoVoyager is inspired by reaching further, literally out of...
Christopher Butler
Periodical 20 – Localized Computing At a time of ubiquitous computing, there is still something to be gained from its...
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At a time of ubiquitous computing, there is still something to be gained from its opposite. There was a time when computers were furniture. It’s easy to note all the reasons why it’s good that this is no longer so. After all, I remember how exciting it was to slide the first...
Retail Design Blog
Spirits packaging design by BXL creative The bottle has a special emblem with an illustration of the Latin motto meaning “holy guardian of...
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The bottle has a special emblem with an illustration of the Latin motto meaning “holy guardian of peace”. What other...
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You’re trying to turn an oil tanker Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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Zurich Insurance by Cachet Group As a leading multi-line insurer serving people and businesses globally, Zurich has once again...
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As a leading multi-line insurer serving people and businesses globally, Zurich has once again demonstrated its commitment to excellence. Their...
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What’s next on Figma’s mind? Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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Coworking Offices – The Workshop YCK The Workshop is dedicated to creating versatile co-working spaces that invite professionals into a...
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The Workshop is dedicated to creating versatile co-working spaces that invite professionals into a dynamic environment that offers private workpods...