I created The Monster List of UX Books by compiling every list of recommended UX books I could find and then tallying the number of recommendations for each...
The systematic thinking in our industry is that settings are the result of design failure. As designers, our goal is to create product experiences that don’t require any adjustment by the user. So offering customization options is often seen as a failure to make firm product decisions. I think there is a misunderstanding about what settings really are.
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Rosetta – exclusive high-quality fonts with international language support, consultancy
Rosetta provides fonts, design, and consultancy services to large companies, broadcasters, academic institutions, other type foundries, as well as type enthusiasts around the world.
Designers' Pick: Best Google Fonts for 2022 - Qode Interactive
The Qode Interactive designers share their selection of the best Google Fonts for 2022, focusing on the most inspiring, creative and practical typefaces.
Dan Hollick 🇿🇦 on Twitter: "WCAG 3 will use a new color contrast method called APCA (Advanced Perceptual Contrast Algorithm). It's a big improvement over the current system but there are a lot of changes to get your head around. 🧵 https://t.co/yLbujn3hG4" / Twitter
WCAG 3 will use a new color contrast method called APCA (Advanced Perceptual Contrast Algorithm).It's a big improvement over the current system but there are a lot of changes to get your head around.🧵 pic.twitter.com/yLbujn3hG4— Dan Hollick 🇿🇦 (@DanHollick) December 9, 2021
What has me really excited about building websites is largely around design systems and the design tools we use to build them. Though, design systems are certainly not limited to websites.
Sociotype is a design-led type foundry from the minds of renowned London creative studio Socio — The Brand Identity
Using the experience gained from crafting bespoke typefaces for clients for over a decade, London-based creative studio Socio have launched design-led foundry Sociotype; beginning with two distinct typefaces – Gestura and Rework. These typefaces, as well as future releases, will be presented in their own issue of the Journal – a content-rich printed publication much more comparable to a magazine than the traditional type specimen. To learn more about it all, we caught up with Creative Director of Socio and Sociotype Nigel Bates, Type Designer Joe Leadbeater and Design Director and Editor of the Journal, Nic Carter.
“Just one.”
So went the particularly cruel prompt that we issued a medley of designers from the publishing industry as 2021 drew to a close. Following a year jam-packed with powerful covers and jackets, we asked a roster of 10—Nicole Caputo, Rodrigo Corral, David Drummond, Janay Nachel Frazier, J