Designer Toshiya on designing pictograms for both print & online (& what the future holds) bit.ly/2ehrTyT #icons #webicons

It’s not a squircle, it’s a roundrect!

In our last post we announced Octicons, our new icon font. We put a lot of work into the font and gained a lot of knowledge in the process. With five different designers working to

Icon Fonts sind eine spannende Alternative zur Verwendung von Bildern, um skalierbare, 100% scharfe Icons in einem responsive Webdesign umzusetzen. Das Icon Font…

Resolution independence is the notion that all graphics on a computer display should be zoomable to an arbitrary multiplier without losing quality. If you know even the slightest thing about computer graphics, you’ll understand that in a resolution independent world, bitmaps are out and vector graphics are in. Vector graphics can scale gracefully to an […]

We offer some advice for developers who are working with resolution independent applications.

A Q+A between our community and design leads about our new Fluent icons.

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?

A guide to design for the brain with intention and results.

This article deals with font usage in Big Sur 11.x through Ventura 13.x. Its main purpose is to show you where fonts are located on your system and which can be safely deactivated (where applicable).

Simple dashboard design tips to help you build your dream dashboard, from using size to show hierarchy, to grouping related metrics. Become a dashboard-design pro

The inspirations behind the techwear seen in games like Death Stranding often come from the same place

Lessons learned from bootstrapping a small design system from scratch

Jakob Nielsen's 10 general principles for interaction design. They are called "heuristics" because they are broad rules of thumb and not specific usability guidelines.

There is no shortage of opinions about today’s news that Adobe will be acquiring Figma, so I’ll try not to repeat any of what’s already been said here. A lot of it boils down to designers and engineers being understandably …

Christine highlights some of Figma’s features and possibilities to help you build a design that aligns with code as much as needed and improve your team work.