design
insights on good design + anything else related to design
Jilber Najem and
design
Above the fold is a myth.
abovethefold.fyi
He is quoted as stating that "Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design.
Dieter Rams - Wikipedia
really great read from.a former Instagram designer on the dysfunction of today’s largest tech companies.
the details are not the details. they make the design.
-charles eames
andrea and
Design is The What. What should you be building? What’s the right opportunity to go after? What’s the right problem to solve? Asking the right question is half the answer. Design is not about the drapes or the drop shadows. Design is a messy, holistic, human-centric process for solving problems—not just stylistic problems, but problems of all manner and level of importance.
Design books for non-designers
stripe.press
“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.
Appealingly asymmetrical