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The things of everyday design There’s a secret code embedded in every app, website, and interface you use. Underneath your fingers...
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There’s a secret code embedded in every app, website, and interface you use. Underneath your fingers is a hidden world traveled by the interface designers, caught up in a war between the complexities of technology and the breakneck evolution of user needs. These designers speak...
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What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: www.worthpoint.com License: All Rights Reserved. On...
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Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: www.worthpoint.com License: All Rights Reserved. On July 5th, 1852 (168 years ago today) Frederick Douglass delivered a speech to 500–600 people in the Corinthian Hall of Rochester, New York. The speech, preceded by a reading of the...
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The State of UX Design of Chinese Car Brands The Market Potential Today, the sales numbers from Chinese car manufacturers don't seem threatening...
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The Market Potential Today, the sales numbers from Chinese car manufacturers don't seem threatening to established car companies but they…
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Ethics for designers in the real world: Snapchat’s Juneteenth filter Photo by Agê Barros on Unsplash Growing up a white kid in the south, Juneteenth was on my list of...
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Photo by Agê Barros on Unsplash Growing up a white kid in the south, Juneteenth was on my list of ‘other kids’ holidays.’ Some kids had Ash Wednesday and All Saints’ Day, some kids had the first day of deer season, and some kids had Juneteenth. Juneteenth had the added obscurity...
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“Incalculable Loss” front page of The New York Times for May 24th, 2020 Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: store.nytimes.com The New York Times. License: All Rights...
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Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: store.nytimes.com The New York Times. License: All Rights Reserved. The front page of The New York Times for Sunday, May 24th, 2020, was a stark wall of type, and only type: a long and somber list of Americans who have lost their lives...
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Bottom Line Up Front: write to make decisions faster On April 2nd, 2020, Brett Crozier, the USS Theodore Roosevelt’s commanding officer, was relieved of...
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On April 2nd, 2020, Brett Crozier, the USS Theodore Roosevelt’s commanding officer, was relieved of command. The Navy’s decision to remove Crozier stemmed from a message that the commander wrote to his superiors. The message concerned a developing emergency aboard the Roosevelt:...
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The Process Behind the Touch Interaction Concept If you haven't yet seen the concept I created, click here Below is the rough design process that I...
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If you haven't yet seen the concept I created, click here Below is the rough design process that I followed. One of the main reasons…
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Deontology Deontology was the result of a surge of new energy in philosophy beginning in the 17th century....
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Deontology was the result of a surge of new energy in philosophy beginning in the 17th century. After the chaos and destruction of the Black Death, Europeans re-evaluated their relationship to the world around them. Scholars like René Descartes and Isaac Newton took on monumental...
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A New Concept for Usable Touch Interaction in Cars When looking around in traffic, the number of people being distracted by their phones and...
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When looking around in traffic, the number of people being distracted by their phones and infotainment systems is alarming. The latter is a…
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The unexamined life Why ethics? The 2010s were a remarkable decade for technology. Day after day, tech lined the front...
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Why ethics? The 2010s were a remarkable decade for technology. Day after day, tech lined the front pages of major newspapers, the chyrons of broadcast news, and the glossy sheets of magazines. And in 2019, the trend took a turn: the stories became about the ethics of technology....
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“Sisterhood is Blooming” poster Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: collections.museumca.org License: All Rights Reserved. The...
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Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: collections.museumca.org License: All Rights Reserved. The “Sisterhood is Blooming / Springtime Will Never Be the Same” poster was originally produced in the early 1970s by the Chicago Women's Graphics Collective, an organization founded...
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What is a brand? A few weeks ago, I jumped into a new job as the head of a design team at a startup called...
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A few weeks ago, I jumped into a new job as the head of a design team at a startup called SimpleHealth. One of my first tasks is to kick off a big brand update. Full creative control, clear product/market fit, a long timeline — this is going to be a breeze. Right? Only, I asked...
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How Waymo Uses Design to Create Trust in Driverless Cars In regular taxi rides, there is a form of trust between the passenger and the driver. Most of it is...
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In regular taxi rides, there is a form of trust between the passenger and the driver. Most of it is established through communication, both…
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People alignment vs. purpose alignment So many words take on different meanings the minute you get to work. Culture no longer means a...
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So many words take on different meanings the minute you get to work. Culture no longer means a shared identity in art, music, food, and dance. Engagement no longer means a sustained, meaningful connection. Other words undergo smaller transformations. The differences in meaning...
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Fairway Market logos Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: nypost.com Christopher Sadowski. License: All Rights...
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Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: nypost.com Christopher Sadowski. License: All Rights Reserved. Dom Bold and Agenda. Fairway Market is a chain of grocery stores in the New York metropolitan area. From Wikipedia: Founded in 1933, it expanded in the New York area...
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The paradox at the heart of A/B testing A/B testing began with beer. At the turn of the 20th century, William Sealy Gosset was exploring new...
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A/B testing began with beer. At the turn of the 20th century, William Sealy Gosset was exploring new ways of running experiments on his production line. Gosset was trying to improve the quality of Guinness’s signature stout but couldn’t afford to run large-scale experiments on...
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Assertive Instincts Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light...
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in. Isaac Asimov It all started while on vacation with my wife. We were driving a rental car to a remote location in Washington state. The car had a safety feature that...
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All the books I read in 2019 I read 25 books in 2019. That’s slightly more than last year, largely due to my discovery of the...
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I read 25 books in 2019. That’s slightly more than last year, largely due to my discovery of the Kindle iOS and MacOS apps. The iOS can scroll continuously instead of flipping between discrete pages, which is ideal for the kind of non-fiction books I like to read. I still read on...
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WAR IS OVER! (If You Want It) Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: entertainment.ha.com License: All Rights Reserved. Original...
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Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: entertainment.ha.com License: All Rights Reserved. Original WAR IS OVER! postcard. The War Is Over! campaign for peace was launched 50 years ago this week by Yoko Ono & John Lennon. On December 15, 1969, a series of billboards, leaflets,...
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Product thinking is a lifeline for struggling design systems Here’s a common problem: a design team creates a design system. They craft beautiful documentation,...
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Here’s a common problem: a design team creates a design system. They craft beautiful documentation, crystal-clear guidelines, and meticulously organized files. But the design system never gains traction. Engineers don’t use it, and other designers quickly stop maintaining it. It...
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An in-depth look at the UX Design of the Porsche Taycan Last month, Porsche unveiled the Taycan. It is the first electric car from an established car...
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Last month, Porsche unveiled the Taycan. It is the first electric car from an established car company with specs that challenge Tesla's…
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Design and machine learning Machine learning is a powerful tool that drives everything from curated content recommendations to...
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Machine learning is a powerful tool that drives everything from curated content recommendations to optimized user interfaces. With Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon leading the charge, machine learning is becoming deeply integrated into everyday product experiences. This means...
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Neon Genesis Evangelion Contributed by Peiran Tan Source: www.evangelion.co.jp ©カラー/Project Eva....
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Contributed by Peiran Tan Source: www.evangelion.co.jp ©カラー/Project Eva. ©カラー/EVA製作委員会 ©カラー. License: All Rights Reserved. Created and directed by Hideaki Anno, Neon Genesis Evangelion (新世紀エヴァンゲリオン, often abbreviated as NGE or simply EVA) is a Japanese media...
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Learning how to see This is the Müller-Lyer illusion. You’ve probably seen 1 it before: it consists of two lines, each...
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This is the Müller-Lyer illusion. You’ve probably seen 1 it before: it consists of two lines, each with forked ends. The middle portion of the top line looks longer than the middle portion of the bottom line. However, when you measure the length of each middle portion, they are...
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Bringing the Coolest Car of the Carrera Panamericana to Life I recently came across the work of Ralph Morse, a photographer who worked for Life Magazine. Many of...
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I recently came across the work of Ralph Morse, a photographer who worked for Life Magazine. Many of his photos are made available by Google…
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Using Netlify to build an email sign-up widget You can read this article on CSS Tricks.
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General Laundry Building Scratchbuilt miniature based on the Abandoned General Laundry building in New Orleans, United...
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Scratchbuilt miniature based on the Abandoned General Laundry building in New Orleans, United States. Created for the Urban Art Fair in Paris showing with Galerie 42b in Paris, April, 2019. Scratchbuilt 1:24 Scale Miniature created from MDF, Wood, cardboard, plastic card, chalk...
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Cherry by Nico Walker (Alfred A. Knopf) Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.janet-hansen.com Janet Hansen. License: All Rights...
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Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.janet-hansen.com Janet Hansen. License: All Rights Reserved. The cover for Nico Walker’s debut novel Cherry was designed by Janet Hansen, senior designer at Alfred A. Knopf, with creative direction from Carol Devine Carson. It was...
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Designing A New UX Concept to Reduce Driver Distraction Since the arrival of the first iPhone, designers at car companies have tried to copy its minimalist...
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Since the arrival of the first iPhone, designers at car companies have tried to copy its minimalist look and interface in the interiors of…
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The inevitable same-ification of the internet Last month, Facebook revealed a major redesign of all its apps across web and mobile. Reactions from...
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Last month, Facebook revealed a major redesign of all its apps across web and mobile. Reactions from design twitter were mixed, but there was one thing everyone agreed on: it looked familiar. Facebook’s 2019 Redesign, compared to Twitter by Alex Muench A few folks correctly noted...
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Overcoming Automotive Overconsumption Through Design The average car consists of around 30,000 parts. They are built up from many different resources...
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The average car consists of around 30,000 parts. They are built up from many different resources that come from all over the world. These…
Joshua Smith
Globe Slicers Scratchbuilt miniature of the Globe Slicers Building, The Bowery District, NYC. Scratchbuilt...
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Scratchbuilt miniature of the Globe Slicers Building, The Bowery District, NYC. Scratchbuilt miniature using MDF, Wood, Cardboard, Paper, Spraypaint, Acrylic Paint, Styrene, Wire, Chain, Weathering pigments. Private Collection Featuring the work of Sory, Staino, Seedr, Sefu,...
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Why Car Companies Need More Interaction Designers The Citroën DS was designed by Flavio Bertoni who, together with aviation engineer André Lèfebvre,...
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The Citroën DS was designed by Flavio Bertoni who, together with aviation engineer André Lèfebvre, created some of the most influential…
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The slippery slope of in product messaging In-product education is a pattern that has emerged from the overlap between user experience design,...
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In-product education is a pattern that has emerged from the overlap between user experience design, marketing strategy, and product management. A brief definition: in-product education markets a product to someone who already uses that product. Think of the messages you get from...
Joshua Smith
Quickstop Groceries Based on the Quickstop Groceries and RST Video shopfronts from the 1994 Kevin Smith film Clerks....
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Based on the Quickstop Groceries and RST Video shopfronts from the 1994 Kevin Smith film Clerks. Created for the Culture 4 Cult Exhibition at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles, December, 2018. Scratchbuilt 1:25 Scale Miniature created from MDF, Wood, cardboard, plastic card, chalk...
Kat Snyder
Sketching e-commerce returns - pain points along the customer journey A picture is worth a thousand words. I sketch user journeys and concepts captured during user...
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A picture is worth a thousand words. I sketch user journeys and concepts captured during user interviews and conversations with...
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Research, empathy, simplicity, speed photo by Toa Heftiba Earlier today, I read a thought-provoking tweet from John Maeda: "Salt Fat Acid...
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photo by Toa Heftiba Earlier today, I read a thought-provoking tweet from John Maeda: "Salt Fat Acid Heat" as the perfect set of ingredients for a meal makes me wonder what a similar set of essential ingredients might be for digital products. https://t.co/z1w1PUyQsD — John Maeda...
Joshua Smith
Olympia Milk Bar Based on the Olympia Milk Bar, Parramatta Road, Stanmore, Sydney. Scratchbuilt 1:24 Scale Miniature...
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Based on the Olympia Milk Bar, Parramatta Road, Stanmore, Sydney. Scratchbuilt 1:24 Scale Miniature created from MDF, Wood, cardboard, plastic card, chalk pastels, spraypaint, wire, plastruct. Created for Urban Decay Solo Exhibition at the Australian Design Centre, Sydney, August...
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Designing with code We’re in the middle of a design tool renaissance. In the 8 years since Sketch 1.0 was released,...
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We’re in the middle of a design tool renaissance. In the 8 years since Sketch 1.0 was released, there’s been a wave of competition among traditional design tools. And as the number of tools available to designers grows exponentially, ideas that were once considered fringe are...
Koos Looijesteijn
Interoperability between UI design tools
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My management philosophy After reading Lara Hogan’s post and getting some inspiration from my own manager, I thought it’d be...
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After reading Lara Hogan’s post and getting some inspiration from my own manager, I thought it’d be good to write up my management philosophy. This reflects my approach at this moment in time — I’m still pretty new to management, and will be revisiting this over time. My...
Sarah Parmenter
Celebrating the Power of Female Friendships with Adobe XD This quarter I got to work on a really exciting project in collaboration with Adobe XD. The brief...
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This quarter I got to work on a really exciting project in collaboration with Adobe XD. The brief was slightly open to interpretation and one of the themes put forward back in February was “Celebrating the good in the world” by creating content that speaks to a cultural trend or...
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Agile & anxiety Managing anxiety is a big part of my life. I have generalized anxiety:1 I constantly feel that...
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Managing anxiety is a big part of my life. I have generalized anxiety:1 I constantly feel that something will go wrong at any moment. Often, I can’t even identify what I’m anxious about. Work is a significant contributor to my anxiety. When I’m at work (and often when I’m not), I...
Joshua Smith
Discolandia Based on the old Discolandia Record Shop, Mission District, San Francisco. Scratchbuilt 1:20 Scale...
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Based on the old Discolandia Record Shop, Mission District, San Francisco. Scratchbuilt 1:20 Scale Miniature created from MDF, Wood, cardboard, plastic card, chalk pastels, spraypaint, wire, plastruct. Created for Through That Which is Seen Exhibition at the Palo Alto Art Centre,...
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Crystal ball 1-on-1s 1-on-1s are my favorite management tool. Not only for managing direct reports; sideways and upwards...
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1-on-1s are my favorite management tool. Not only for managing direct reports; sideways and upwards management need 1-on-1s, too. Here’s my general definition for a 1-on-1: Reoccuring - Whether it’s weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly, set a cadence and stick with it. Informal - Don’t...
Koos Looijesteijn
Things I learned from doing a side project
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Sarah Parmenter
Adobe XD Contest – Prototype your City. I‘ve had the absolute joy of working on a couple of collaborations with Adobe this year already;...
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I‘ve had the absolute joy of working on a couple of collaborations with Adobe this year already; something I feel very honoured to be a part of; as at least one element of the Creative Cloud Suite has been a part of my workflow since I started in this industry in 2003. What I...
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Really bad design exercises As we at the Wall Street Journal kick off a new round of hiring1, I’m reminded of my least favorite...
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As we at the Wall Street Journal kick off a new round of hiring1, I’m reminded of my least favorite practice in design hiring: the Exercise. Why do we put ourselves through it? Why do we put each other through it? What could we possibly gain from it? I’d like to hazard an answer...
Koos Looijesteijn
Why side projects fail
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My favorite job interview question I like job interviews. I participated in a lot of job interviews in 2017. I interviewed extensively...
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I like job interviews. I participated in a lot of job interviews in 2017. I interviewed extensively before starting at SoundCloud, and then again on my way to my current position at The Wall Street Journal. Sometimes, interviews are full of fascinating cultural signals. Most...