design
insights on good design + anything else related to design
Jilber Najem and
design
Appealingly asymmetrical
One of the many things I learned from @gentry about design is the idea of *informed simplicity*
love this distinction between levels of design. truly higher level designs are designing solutions instead of features, outcomes instead of products. there's no function more important than this.
We learned the hard way that new products are hard enough to figure out, and we should make as many things as familiar as possible. Again, life and new products are hard enough. When you can use a familiar term instead of being original, do so. Never opt for a solution that is more creative but less effective.
Scott Belsky • Crafting The First Mile Of Product
Hence myhub: “it’s your blog + your portfolio + your recommended reading for your friends / public bookmarks library” (that last one is a bit tougher, as not many people share bookmarks).
To this day, when someone wants to reference the dollar bill in a design, it’s noticeable how certain visual cues remain—even when the medium and the level of fidelity are completely different. Leveraging mental models from previously established fictions helps create a feeling of familiarity, which in turn helps people believe in the new, emerging... See more
Caio Braga • The aesthetics of our new fictions
