Wireframe S3E1: COVID-19, Social Unrest and Design
Here’s the first of six episodes in our third season of “Wireframe,” the podcast about the stories behind product and UX design.
Here’s the first of six episodes in our third season of “Wireframe,” the podcast about the stories behind product and UX design.
Like a lot of urgent advice, this terrific article about best practices in creating strong passwords feels both necessary and tragic.
Here is a presentation that I made last week about how to understand the design process, explained through the lens of Thanos.
Any time I'm confronted with a standard GDPR privacy warning on a web site, I reflexively click the option to accept cookies and move on.
Privacy and technology journalist Kashimir Hill is in the middle of publishing a fascinating series of articles called " Goodbye to the Big Five,".
A different kind of podcast about the stories behind interaction design.
What gets written, read, discussed and lectured with regard to design is, on the whole, very shallow.
Remarks from the 3rd Annual Phil Patton Lecture, hosted by the Masters Program in Design Research at The School of Visual Arts in New York.
Last week American Airlines failed in its second attempt to register its logo with the U.S. Copyright Office.
I did a quick survey of several “best film posters of the year” lists, and compiled my own inventory.
Helvetica, much as I adore it, has had more than its fair share of attention.
Last fall, Adobe, Apple, Google and Microsoft jointly announced a specification for variable fonts.
I'm continually astonished by the downward trend in the value of design paraphernalia. We've seen massive shifts in the stock photo business where those assets now cost little or nothing-and companies like Unsplash can raise millions of dollars in venture capital to give away stock images for free.
Though San Francisco-based startup Abstract has only launched in private beta, the company has already generated significant buzz in the design community. Their promise to fix "disorganized design assets" and "conflicted copies of files creating confusion and noise" through a new, Git-like versioning system directly addresses the friction that designers have tolerated, often painfully, for decades.
When debuting new logos, designers often share a supporting illustration that superimposes a grid on top of the logo forms, as if to demonstrate how structurally sound the design is. I've always viewed these skeptically, as they seem more fanciful than evidentiary.
For the past two years or so, designer Eli Schiff has been causing a stir among his fellow product designers with the critical essays he's been publishing on his web site. With titles like " Instagram's Abomination," " Uber's Atomic Meltdown," and " Fall of the Designer," these writings have taken the design industry to task for recent trends in product design, branding and aesthetics.
What gets written on the Internet about the design of apps, web sites, icons, identity systems and digital experiences of all kinds is almost always written by people who are professional designers first and foremost. We don't have a class (or even a sub-class) of writers who are actively engaged and uncompromised in thinking about what makes for good design and why.
I'm very excited to announce the opening of this year's Design Tools Survey-you can take it right now, here. The market for software made for product designers, web designers, app designers, interaction designers and more has never been more vibrant and interesting.