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Form Follows Function: This Simple Rope Connector - Core77
You could be forgiven for thinking these cast aluminum pieces are trivets, but in fact they're rope connectors. The friction of the ropes hold them in place. These doodads are a knot-free way to make a climbing net, like you'd see at a playground (or
How to Code First with Design-First Benefits
By coding early, we can validate ideas, identify technical constraints and refine our design based on practical insights and keep the project's goals in focus.
Daylight Saving Time is a perfect test for UI designer
Unique challenges that DST presents for clock/watch designers
Peter Frederiksen Dramatizes the Dark Humor of Classic Cartoons in His Cropped Embroideries — Colossal
Peter Frederiksen pinpoints the most ridiculous, exaggerated moments in cartoons and animated shows to dramatize them further into absurdity.
UI Libraries Are Dying: What’s Next?
UI libraries come with challenges, which greatly limit their effectiveness. Let’s explore how a new entity, the Bit component, addresses them.
3M introduces a world's first innovation to help redefine shipping and packaging – Company Announcement - FT.com
The latest company information, including net asset values, performance, holding & sectors weighting, changes in voting rights, and directors and dealings.
Form Follows Function: Early Design for an Adjustable Industrial Task Lamp - Core77
You've perhaps seen Dyson's Solarcycle lamp, which is adjustable in a Cartesian fashion to provide light exactly where you want it. It was probably inspired by this early-20th-century design for an industrial task lamp, produced by the Faries Manufacturing Co. of Decatur, Illinois. It's pure form-follows-function. Both
Product Development Methodologies [Inspired by Hannibal & Rome]
Explore the timeless wisdom of Hannibal Barca's Rome-invading strategies and how they relate to conquering modern product development methodologies.
Cistercian Numerals - Futility Closet
In the 13th century, Cistercian monks worked out a system of numerals in which a single glyph can represent any integer from 1 to 9,999: Once you’ve mastered the digits in the top row, you can represent tens by flipping them (second row), hundreds by inverting them (third row), and thousands by doing both (fourth row). And now you can combine these symbols to produce any number under 10,000: The monks eventually dropped the system in favor of Arabic numerals, which reached northwestern Europe at about the same time, but it was being used informally elsewhere as recently as the...
THE 88×31 ARCHIVE
Toggles suck! | Axess Lab
You’ve all seen them, tiny switches that let you toggle a setting. And maybe, just like me, you sometimes pause, thinking “...Is it on or…
Designing your account deletion experience with users in mind
To help you build trust and design a user-friendly experience that helps meet our policy requirements, consider these best practices.
We Should All Be Prepared To Design For Life — But Not As We Know It - Core77
Technologies blurring the boundaries between natural and artificial are increasingly within our grasp
Chris’ Corner: More Like Scalable Vector Goodness – CodePen
UX for the Enterprise
Enterprise UX often involves navigating cumbersome processes, ancient technology, and clients skeptical of design’s value. Yet Fortune 500 companies are often the ones most in need of well-designed…
3 common examples of button text that degrades UX and how to rewrite them so they’re clear
Adam Silver – interaction designer - London, UK
7 reasons to replace advanced search with filters so users can easily find what they need
Adam Silver – interaction designer - London, UK
Sliders degrade UX (so do this instead)
Adam Silver – interaction designer - London, UK
Bret Victor, struggling
Bret Victor has been provided by the management for your protection.
Design Ah! (デザインあ) · learning the fun of design
A gem of an educational show from Japan about design.
Usability Heuristics Applied to Board Games
Usability heuristics suggest what influences the design of successful board games.
How to Comment on Social Media
Rebecca Solnit with a cheeky & hilarious piece on How to Comment on Social Media.
1) Do not read the whole original post or what
Need Not Reply
Virtual Stickers to Manage Replies By
Dan Hon: “Over on Mastodon, which has a Kind of Person, I made these images to attach to help people manage replies.
Comparison Tables for Products, Services, and Features
Use this versatile GUI tool to support users when they need to make a decision that involves considering multiple attributes of a small number of items.
13 QR-Code Usability Guidelines
To be effective, QR codes need clear, brief, contextual information and must lead the user to relevant pages.
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Visual Vocabulary
Phenix Storybook - Colors