Design

A look the shifting design tools landscape according to the UX Tools survey

My thought process on choosing color and illustration style. Originally published on the official Adobe blog

Meet “Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces”, our brand-new guide on designing for mobile with proven, universal, human-centric standards. 400 pages. Shipping starting late-December.

We often talk about design systems as singular entities. "The design system saves time and increases quality." "Oh, the design system provides that." "Update to the latest version of the design system." The reality is that a design system is a multi-faceted layer cake, and also operates as part of o

Typing with full-color illustrated letters is now a reality! OpenType-SVG is an exciting new technology, and is already supported by several browsers and design apps like Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator cc2018.

A documentary film that follows the transformation of a nation from a colonial outpost to a vibrant and multicultural society, through the lens of graphic design.

Emoji, a new book from Standards Manual, celebrates the ancestral design of what has become the world’s most universal language.

What you think you’ll like isn’t always what helps you make the best decisions, Salesforce Analytics finds in a new research.

Designing Programmes by Karl Gerstner is one of the most elusive design books in the world. Brand new copies retail for over $2,000, and…

An exploration in scalable logo design

Sob with me, fellow “parennials.”

New Logo and Identity for La Mongolfière by Brand Brothers

New Logo and Identity for PATH by Manual

The most fun place to experiment with layouts using variable fonts, and export front-end code right from this little web app. Designed and developed by Wenting Zhang.

Users can be hesitant to fill out forms. That is why it is our goal as designers to make the process of filling out a form as easy as possible. In this article, I’ll share a number of practical techniques that are bound to help you design effective forms.

A dystopian view of an internet designed by machines, and the mushy, emotional weapons we can use to fight back. Read more on Coax.

Slice the sashimi, pour some sake and get comfy under the heated coffee table. I’d like to tell you about this wonderful country I call home. Quick Disclaimer I’ve been living in Japan for about...

Scaling the Microsoft Teams Component Libraries (TCL) in Figma

Website heatmaps are a low effort, low signal waste of time and best avoided in favour of actual research

UXPin has recently launched a new feature called “Merge”. This tool aims to break through the chasms of design and development, all while improving the agility and quality our teams expect. This new technology may cause some rethink on how the whole design team and engineering team collaborates.

A Lisp-based Design Tool Bridging Graphic Design and Computational Arts - baku89/glisp: A Lisp-based Design Tool Bridging Graphic Design and Computational Arts

📍 In this case study, I explain and take you through my process of designing an ed-tech app called Invest-ED. I will share my process…

MD Nichrome is a display typeface based on the typography of paperback science fiction from the 70s and early 80s. Rather than imitating any single typeface of this era, it aims instead to capture elements from several.

Create color systems with consistent lightness and contrast.

Accessible Palette is an app for building color systems with consistent lightness and predictable contrast ratios across color levels.

Companies are a sequencing of loops. While it’s possible to stumble into an initial core loop that works, the companies that are successful in the long term are the ones that can repeatedly find the next loop. However, this evolution is poorly understood relative to its existential impact on a company’s trajectory. Figma is a … Continue reading Why Figma Wins →

I’m pleased to announce that today, Hoefler&Co is joining the Monotype family.

Mighty plugin to save you time and help you pick the right words as you design your layout. Just like having a copywriter beside you.

Curate resources to design complex data tables for Enterprise UX: table patterns, designing tables for enterprise apps & fitting big tables with a lot of content.