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insights on good design + anything else related to design
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Design Principles
learndesignprinciples.comLike the technium itself — our values are continually going through an evolution. This is why when viral tweets about the founding father’s misdeeds circle about, it doesn’t change my opinion about the Constitution. If their acted values were the exact same as ours, it would for me to question us , not them!
So as we think about what we manifest... See more
So as we think about what we manifest... See more
Reggie James • Designing: An Embodiment of Values
After my experience at The Met, I spent the next few months viewing and considering as much beauty as I could. I went to more museums. I spent weeks researching obscure Baroque furniture makers, legendary luthiers, prominent architects, naturalist illustrators, Italian car designers, and philosophers of aesthetics. What I came out the other side... See more
Origins
So many good examples of flows/products that become way more usable by removing steps. E.g. OCRing a photo you took using some 3rd party app vs. just selecting the text inside Apple's photos. I use the latter now multiple times a week and “all it did” was reduce steps. [1/3]
Ben Blumenrosetwitter.com- It doesn’t matter how many times I have to click, as long as each click is a mindless, unambiguous choice. —KRUG’S SECOND LAW OF USABILITY
Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug – The Rabbit Hole
Vadik Marmeladov LAB
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“Design should also be sensual and exciting.”
Creatives behind Glossier and Brat explain the new rules of branding
Sottsass came up in a modernist design world that valued rigidity, utility, and simplicity; asking designers to ask themselves what is necessary and drop everything else. As famed industrial designer Dieter Rams has said, “Good design is as little design as possible.” Sottsass epitomizes basically the complete opposite of that.
Sottsass’s work made the case for the necessity of the superfluous. Expressive use of color, form, and decorative elements are elemental to design done well. In the modern era, design is leaning into sensuality and excitement too.
