Friedrich Forssman ist vielen Typografieliebhabern und Designern durch die Standardwerke »Detailtypografie« und »Lesetypografie« bekannt. Er ist einer der führenden Buchgestalter Deutschlands. Zusammen mit seiner Frau, der Textildesigerin Cornelia Feyll, hat er seit einigen Jahren Einzelwerke und Reihen für den Reclam-Verlag neu gestaltet, zuletzt die Universal-Bibliothek, auch bekannt als »Reclam-Hefte«. Klassiker wie die Reclam-Hefte neu zu […]

Thanks to Amy Hupe, I learned that there's such a thing as National Blog Posting Month (#NaBloPoMo for short), and it starts today. So here we go with post n...

How designers have succeeded and failed in our daily lives

Unsure where to start? Use this collection of links to our articles and videos to learn more about accessible and inclusive design.

10 dos and don'ts for designing accessible data visualizations, including real-life examples and resources

Due to the absence of a standard usage for individual icons, text labels are necessary to communicate meaning and reduce ambiguity in an icon-based design.

UX Myths collects the most frequent user experience misconceptions and explains why they don't hold true.

New web services are being built to a self-defeatingly low UX and performance standard, and existing experiences are now pervasively re-developed on unspeakably slow, JS-taxed stacks. At a business level, this is a disaster, raising the question: why are new teams buying into stacks that have failed so often before?

Am 19.September 1982 wurde das erste Emoticon verschickt :-). Seither verändert sich unsere Welt rasant in Richtung Post-Schrift-Gesellschaft.

Part I in a series that explores inclusive design at Betterment. This post focuses on making the case to remove the ‘gender question’ as well as some takeaways for building inclusive products.

Whose sources, and whose truths?

trust, truth + joy

Die hier kurz vorgestellten Apps liegen dem Autor entweder als Testversion oder mit erworbener Lizenz vor. Das Hauptkriterium zur Auswahl war eine aktive Entwicklung der Programme.

Everything you need to know about what makes a button great.

… an open-source, privacy-first web font platform designed to put privacy back into the internet. With a zero-tracking and no-logging policy, Bunny Fonts helps you stay fully GDPR compliant and puts your user's personal data into their own hands.

Is your design system really a system …or is it more like a collection of components?

A few relevant analogies, important references to inspirational figures, and the case made for refusing to wait a minute longer.

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

The HIG contains guidance and best practices that can help you design a great experience for any Apple platform.

How typefaces impact emotions remains largely unstudied, but a new report suggests that different fonts can elicit different emotions.

When choosing typography to use in designs, narrow down your options by understanding the most common classifications, looking for typefaces with multiple variations and distinct characters, and pairing typefaces together with consistency and readability in mind.

So we are building a CAD or a drawing app. It has lots of handy tools and an infinitely large space. There’s enough room for drawings, notes, and anything else. We start with a blank page, literally…

Inclusive design describes methodologies to create products that understand and enable people of all backgrounds and abilities. It may address accessibility, age, economic situation, geographic location, language, race, and more.

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