Caio Braga, Fabricio Teixeira & Luciano Infanti have written an excellent article that explores design in new fictions – the invisible social contracts that we all accept and subscribe to …
Designing for Large Screens in Material Design 3
André Labonté (a Product Manager on Material Design) has presented a great talk at Google I/O 2022 on Designing for Large Screens, covering helpful principles, ergonomics to consider, Material Design …
Principles & Best Practices for Designing in Arabic (in 2022)
A really helpful WWDC 2022 video by Mohammed Samir (a Designer in the Apple Design team) on Designing for Arabic (in 2022). The video covers a lot of already widely …
Remote Design Sprint Templates (Keynote, Miro, Figma)
Throughout the pandemic, a number of us have had to modify, change & completely replace established methods and tools for Design which was deemed normal or best practice just a …
Upcoming iPadOS 15 introduces much needed Multi-tasking & new Translate features
Apple’s online WWDC Keynote 2021 is introducing some new features for iPad OS 15, including privacy features (private relay) and live translation including from your Photo library. Pretty neat. Notes …
V&A 2021 re-opening day & the Alice Curiouser & Curiouser Exhibition
I had the wonderful pleasure of visiting the V&A (Victoria and Albert) museum for re-opening day on the 19th of May 2021 following the UK lockdowns and restrictions. It was …
Config 2021 & Keynote videos are now on YouTube
Config 2021 was inspiring & a treat this year – particularly facing the challenges we all have working remotely due to the global pandemic. If you are new or already …
Density Plots series by Twitter on Observable
Yuri Vishnevsky has published a series of posts in Observable as a Notebook on Density Plots. Density Plots are standard charts similar to scatterplots and line charts that are used …
Genuary 2021 – a daily January 2021 Generative Art prompt
Here is a daily treat during the UK lockdown – a generative art & data visualisation community effort titled #GENUARY2021 10 INPUT PROMPT 20 WRITE CODE 30 GENERATE 40 POST …
Our human bias starts from the moment we are born
New research published by John Hopkins University shows that we actually start developing our human biases from much younger than was previously known, and that the choices we make (even …
Seth Godin tells it how it is, in the Design Better Podcast
Seth Godin (enterpreneur, author, speaker) is special guest for the 5th season opener of the Design Better Podcast with Aarron Walter and Eli Woolery from Invision. S5 Ep1: Seth Godin …
Designing human-centered AI products a People+AI Guidebook
Google has started a guidebook called People + AI Research (PAIR) to help build human-centered Artifical Intelligence products. Written for user experience (UX) professionals and product managers, it aims to …
A documentary titled RAMS, on legendary German designer Dieter Rams
A documentary about German designer Dieter Rams is in production for a release later this year. The documentary titled RAMS will be directed by Gary Hustwit, who directed Helvetica, Objectified, …
Inge Druckrey’s Teaching to See
Teaching to See is a 2012 educational documentary film about graphic design. It was Directed and Edited by Andrei Severny and Produced by Edward Tufte. Below are reviews of the …
UsTwo publishes part 2 of their Designing for Kids insights
UsTwo have published their second-part to their July post on Designing Digital Experiences for Kids. It’s well worth a read as they cover some new considerations they are finding as …