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“Do you know there’s a section of our customer base that buys a fresh Moleskine every time they come into a store? We have no idea what they do with them”

Pamela Colman Smith, nicknamed "Pixie", was a British artist, illustrator, writer, publisher, and occultist. She is best-known for illustrating the Rider–Waite tarot deck for Arthur Edward Waite. This tarot deck became the standard among tarot card readers, and remains the most widely used today. Smith also illustrated over 20 books, wrote two collections of Jamaican folklore, edited two magazines, and ran the Green Sheaf Press, a small press focused on women writers.

Field Notes offers smartly-designed, vintage-inspired pocket notebooks, notepads, journals, calendars, planners, and writing accoutrements.

Learn why notification preferences are important and how you can build the best notification experience for your users within an hour.

The different kinds of sounds that carmakers have had to come up with to make EVs audible to pedestrians, bikers, and other driv

Stimulus is a JavaScript framework with modest ambitions. It doesn’t seek to take over your entire front-end—in fact, it’s not concerned with rendering HTML at all. Instead, it’s designed to augment your HTML with just enough behavior to make it shine.

Download, copy and paste tech icons in SVG and PNG format for your projects.

I have worked with dozens of teams surprised to have have found themselves in the JavaScript ditch. They all feel ashamed because they've been led to believe they're the first; that the technology is working fine for other folks. It isn't.

Alex Russell on browsers, standards, and the process of progress.

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Pin Point: The Most Common 4-digit PIN numbers by Information is Beautiful was a redesign of Nick Berry’s original work. Having a pin that’s easy for you to remember, could also be an easy one to guess. Check out this infographic and see how safe your favorite PIN may be. Chip and PIN card, p

The cool sci-fi robots, mechs and vehicle concept designs of Inka Shu, a freelance concept designer based in ShenZhen, China

With over 100 years in the industry, our craftsmen have perfected the art of architectural millwork and woodwork design. Together with architects, designers, and contractors, Fetzer Architectural Woodworking continues to pioneer innovative techniques, using the oldest building material known to mankind.

The iconic wood tables that fill every Apple Store have long been globally admired as symbols of tasteful interior design....

Exclusive video footage of Steve Jobs talking about his design vision and philosophy and how design worked at Apple.

It could happen to anyone of us: suddenly you got this inkling of an idea for a product that you think might just be pretty useful or even cool. Some of us then go on to develop a prototype and man…

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

Last year we rebuilt our well-loved Stamen basemaps from scratch, re-creating them on a totally new tech stack in partnership with Stadia Maps. This was a bittersweet and challenging process, trying to build new styles that matched the aesthetics of the old maps, while still giving us a fresh start to keep these maps running...

Control Scheme Builder. Create multiple variations of gamepad layouts across different modes and platforms, and solve button-related UX problems with ease. No registration required, and sharing your work is as simple as copying the URL from your browser!

The ultimate interface reference Tool for game designers. Explore over 1,300 games, and 55,000 UI screenshots and videos, and filter by screen category, animation, colour, material, layout, texture, shapes, patterns, genre and more!

Tabs are everywhere, but do you use them properly? Distinguish between types of tabs, design them for visual clarity, and structure their content for usability.

How will our online experiences be different once we take back control over exactly who should see, interact with, and even collaborate on our content and activities at the most granular level?

To better understand the workflow involved in building Bonfire extension from scratch, we implemented a design pattern from the Prosocial Design Network: label misleading content; add links to reliable, related content.

The illusion of data as “objective” conceals that it rarely shows you the whole picture. Making decisions based on the easiest data to…

Sometimes attempts to prevent mistakes make correcting them impossible

Weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: introduction to user interviews workshop, strategic information architecture, minimum WCAG target size, accessibility and typography, curated design inspiration, free SVG icons, 2D shape interpolation script, react kawaii icons, a directory of design systems, impact of European accessibility act, practical SVG book etc.