Being a Color Blind Designer
From a designer’s perspective, design systems turn our creative careers into extremely boring jobs. The restrictions imposed by these systems allow little room for personal interpretation of design elements, making designers feel like production monkeys who merely assemble and no longer design. Even the most senior designers at those types of corpo
... See moreIrene Pereyra • Universal Principles of UX: 100 Timeless Strategies to Create Positive Interactions between People and Technology (Rockport Universal)
Over the years, and especially through my time growing Behance, I have had the opportunity to follow and work with all kinds of designers from around the world. I’ve come to believe that the most effective designers are always solving a specific problem and seem to do so more by removing than adding.
Scott Belsky • The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture
The core of the problem is a simple disconnect: insofar as software presents impediments to a user seeing like a designer, software compels a designer to reason like a user. Put another way: because computers cannot see the way we see, they cannot help us to reason the way we wish to reason
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One is that while the dominant model of universal design has disability at its center, the very success of the innovations it generates tends to obscure their origin stories, as in the case of the OXO peeler. That success erases the very real, ongoing barriers to an adaptive, flexible world for disabled people. Universal design also tends to stoke
... See moreSara Hendren • What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
“How can I design this experience for every person, including those with disabilities?”