Good design
Going beyond what’s visible
Good design
here's what I still believe: the best things are made by people who couldn't help themselves. someone who lost sleep over an icon. who rewrote the same line of copy twelve times. who added an animation nobody asked for because it made the thing feel right. that obsession – that's not inefficiency. that's the whole point.
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Brilliant!
Universal Design
“Design of products and environments to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design."
Ron Mace, architect, Father of Universal Design
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In a sense, it’s “active” design that anticipates needs of all people, rather then design that “reacts” my accommodating spaces (physical or digital) when called out as unsupportive for certain groups of people.
CARI, or Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute, is an online community dedicated to developing a visual lexicon of consumer ephemera from the 1970s until now.
A bunch of designs manifestos
The Game Boy was affordable, durable, portable, and played for hours on AA batteries. And because developers were already familiar with the underlying technology, they could easily build new games for the platform