#design (850 links)
- Design Principles principles.design
An open source collection of Design Principles and methods.
- Healthy System Healthy Body underconsideration.com
New Identity for Ayushman Bharat Wellness Centers by Lopez Design
- Okay, Color Spaces — ericportis.com ericportis.com
- The Design Philosophy of Great Tables posit-dev.github.io
Tables—like plots—are crucial as a last step toward presenting information. There is surprising sophistication and nuance in designing effective tables. Over the past 5,000 years, they’ve evolved from simple grids to highly structured displays of data. Although we argue that the mid-1900s served as a high point, the popularization and wider accessibility of computing seemingly brought us back to the simple, ancient times.
- Generative UI and Outcome-Oriented Design nngroup.com
GenUI promises highly personalized interfaces — a move from designing for many to tailoring for the individual.
- Dynamic Pictograms For Design Systems carbonemike.com
How to prepare pictograms for design systems by handling variable brand and skin colors.
Design Engineers work closely with designers to implement designs, skipping the traditional handoff process. Instead of handing off a completed design, a Designer sketches the start and iterates with a Design Engineer in Figma or code to produce the final design. Lots of technical exploration is done to push the designs.
- DesignOps 101 nngroup.com
There are a lot of components within DesignOps, and what an organization chooses to select — or to pass on — should depend on the current needs and most poignant painpoints of that organization.
Go for not too specific, not too general.
- Be usable, not consistent, not uniform – Duncan Stephen duncanstephen.net
Consistency can be a great thing if it makes a design more usable. But if you don’t know what you want to a design to be consistent with — and why — then consistency risks confusing your users.
Interesting take that I think is building on a bit of a false premise.
- Being consistent, not uniform – Design in government designnotes.blog.gov.uk
- Alt Group altgroup.net
- User centred design and the rule of law - Richard Pope richardpope.org
- Icon University blog.streamlinehq.com
- Retrofitting fluid typography clagnut.com
- A generation of design leaders grapples with their future fastcompany.com
- Carolyn Davidson (graphic designer) - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org
In 1971, Knight and his (Blue Ribbon Sports, Inc., later Nike) co-founder needed a logo for a new line of running shoes they were getting ready to introduce. They asked Davidson to design a stripe (industry term for a shoe logo) that "had something to do with movement".
- I is for Intent — Acko.net acko.net
This is a slightly problematic article, but worth noting: so few people write about the complexity of UI in a useful way. Organisations too often treat visual design as being as good as done, missing all the nuance behind great UI.
- How Apple Is Giving Design A Bad Name (2015) fastcompany.com
- New design patterns for AI medium.com
- Daring Fireball: The Vision Pro daringfireball.net
A headset, a spatial productivity platform, and a personal entertainment device.
- Don Norman on how design fails older consumers fastcompany.com
Do not think that thoughtful design is just for the elderly, or the sick, or the disabled. In the field of design, this is called “inclusive design” for a reason: It helps everyone. Curb cuts were meant to help people who had trouble walking, but it helps anyone wheeling things: carts, baby carriages, suitcases.
- Design Principles - Adactio principles.adactio.com
A collection of design principles from elsewhere, gathered into one place.
- The Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design cs.umd.edu
I have often been asked to distill the vast corpus of user interface design into a few key principles. While I was reluctant to do this, it turned out to be a good exercise to write “Golden Rules,” that are applicable in most interactive systems. These principles, derived from experience and refined over three decades, require validation and tuning for specific design domains.
This is wonderful.
- Why Do Everyone’s Logo Fonts Look the Same? justcreative.com
Throughout this piece, we’ve talked about the sans-serifs and the utilitarian nature of their design. But perhaps their greatest sin is that they often lack personality. When more and more customers are looking for a more human relationship with brands, having the same logo font as everyone else just doesn’t cut it.
- Creating a Future-Proof Design System: Comparing Tools vs. Headless – Blog – Supernova.io supernova.io
This methodology involves decoupling the design tokens and elements from their implementation, allowing them to be applied across various platforms and technologies. This platform-agnostic nature of headless design systems makes them highly scalable and suitable for organizations that have a presence across multiple digital mediums beyond just the product.
So, essentially a reframing of what we called the Spotify Model in 2019, based on the "Reimagining Design Systems at Spotify" talk.
- Design Systems Database: Surf among top‑notch Design Systems designsystems.surf
- Modern iOS Navigation Patterns · Frank Rausch frankrausch.com
This page collects all the familiar navigation patterns for structuring iOS apps, like drill-downs, modals, pyramids, sequences, and more! Think of it as an unofficial bonus chapter for Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines, written by someone who cares deeply about well-crafted user interfaces.
- Brands as Operating Systems | LinkedIn linkedin.com
If you’re designing a brand today, you’re designing a digital entity. You’re also designing a shared entity. Brands today aren’t the work of lone geniuses. They are collaborations between marketers, product people, partners and customers.
- How to (properly) break your design system breakyourdesignsystem.com
Systems thinking allows your work to reach more people.
If a component doesn’t align with the project’s vision, it’s not sacrilege to customize or create entirely new elements.
- Toggle-Switch Guidelines nngroup.com
Toggle switches should take immediate effect and should not require the user to click Save or Submit to apply the new state. As always, we should strive to match the system to the real world.
- Classnames classnames.paulrobertlloyd.com
Naming things needn’t be hard
... or more accurately: bad mobile-first web design.
- ISO 9241 - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org
ISO 9241 is a multi-part standard from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) covering ergonomics of human-computer interaction.
- Vibe Driven Development robinrendle.com
It comes down to this annoying, upsetting, stupid fact: the only way to build a great product is to use it every day, to stare at it, to hold it in your hands to feel its lumps. The data and customers will lie to you but the product never will. And most product orgs suck because they simply don’t use the products that they’re building; they ship incremental nothings without direction because they’re looking at spreadsheets all day long filled with junk data nothings.
- Responsive Design In 2023 ishadeed.com
- Why Is Everything So Ugly? | The Editors nplusonemag.com
We live in undeniably ugly times. Architecture, industrial design, cinematography, probiotic soda branding — many of the defining features of the visual field aren’t sending their best. Despite more advanced manufacturing and design technologies than have existed in human history, our built environment tends overwhelmingly toward the insubstantial, the flat, and the gray, punctuated here and there by the occasional childish squiggle. This drab sublime unites flat-pack furniture and home electronics, municipal infrastructure and commercial graphic design: an ocean of stuff so homogenous and underthought that the world it has inundated can feel like a digital rendering — of a slightly duller, worse world.
- The Era of Rebellious Web Design Is Here – Eye on Design eyeondesign.aiga.org
- The Golden Ratio System of Design thegoldenratio.co.uk
- typo/graphic posters typographicposters.com
- Open Props open-props.style
Supercharged CSS variables.