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designerfund.com

Building a Product People Love: Q&A with Figma’s Jenny Wen

Jenny Wen, Product Design Manager at Figma, answers questions around leadership, culture, and product design inspiration.

thisiscolossal.com

Christoph Niemann Interview

Christoph Niemann discusses his practice and process, how he consumes news and culture, and that there is no trick to drawing.

sequoiacap.com

Designing for the Developers

With a Finnish sensibility, Linear’s founders center software engineers in the development process.

manual.withcompound.com

Interview with Benjamin de Cock, Early Designer at Stripe

Ben is a designer who started working for Stripe in 2012 and spent 8 years there, working on many projects including the Stripe home page.

ui.land

ui.land

The Digital Library for Designers and Engineers.

the-brandidentity.com

NaN Tresor

NaN’s contextual-alternative-loaded sans NaN Tresor won’t stop till you have every option possible.

simpleanalytics.com

Everything you need to know about Deceptive Design

The concept of deceptive design plays an important role in our digital lives, but what is it exactly and how can you spot it

spotify.design

Finding your T-Shape as a Generalist Designer

In the first installment of an interview series, two designers reflect on life as a generalist at Spotify and the career path that led them here.

the-brandidentity.com

Anthony Burrill shares his collection of fascinating and unexpected ephemera

Bold lettering, gritty textures and a punchy black, white and yellow palette – we must be talking about a website by Anthony Burrill.

storybook.js.org

Why most design systems implode

We asked Brad Frost if design systems are still relevant in 2022.

material.io

Material Icons: Sehee Lee

An interview with Senior Visual Designer leading icons and design systems for Google Fonts

pimpmytype.com

Serif Fonts in UI Design

Today, for the first time with a guest, I’m joined by wonderful José Scaglione from TypeTogether.

prototypr.io

From Design System to 'NFT Design System': Creating TinyFaces

Max spent lockdown learning 3D design, leading to a venture into NFTs. He shares the stigmas and challenges of entering the NFT space as a designer.

whydesignmatters.online

Why Design Matters by Debbie Millman

Conversations with the World’s Most Creative People, collected into an anthology of 55 interviews with designers and visionaries in diverse fields.

the-brandidentity.com

Creating international identity systems for Marc Jacobs, Nike and more

Moment is a San Francisco-based design and branding studio that specializes in building clean and concise identity systems.

designerfund.com

Inside design at Gusto: How to build customer-centric culture

Advice from Gusto's design team on improving cross-team collaboration and getting buy-in for design's value.

itsnicethat.com

Mark Bloom on his latest release and launching CoType Foundry

Since launching his foundry in 2019, Mark has released eight new typefaces including Betatron – his latest – which is inspired by sci-fi films.

itsnicethat.com

Sharp Type co-founders on navigating the aesthetic zeitgeist of typography

We sat down with Chantra Malee and Lucas Sharp of Sharp Type to discuss trends in type design, building a rapport with clients, and more.

designerfund.com

Embedding Design into the Fiber of Fintech

What makes design at Stripe so special? Designer Fund talked to current & former designers for a window into some of its successes (and failures).

components.ai

An Interview with Elliot Jay Stocks

Elliot Jay Stocks is a UK-based designer, musician, writer, & speaker.