design
insights on good design + anything else related to design
Jilber Najem and
design
The most fundamental software infrastructure has become commoditized to the point where most of the innovation is now created at the interface with end users. In the consumer internet world in particular, the marginal cost of software is zero, and design is now the differentiator.
Superflux
superflux.in
One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to drink.
Humans naturally want to add more. Add a cardboard sleeve, add a warning on the outside of the cup, add a handle. The result of all these things never cools down the actual contents.
... See moreWhen Times New Roman appears in a book, document, or advertisement, it connotes apathy. It says, “I submitted to the typeface of least resistance.” Times New Roman isn’t a typeface choice so much as the absence of a typeface choice, like the blackness of deep space isn’t a color. To look at Times New Roman is to gaze into the void.
Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts
What technology will matter most in 2024?
What can software product designers learn from game designers?
- Another major source of needless words is instructions. The main thing you need to know about instructions is that no one is going to read them —at least not until after repeated attempts at “muddling through” have failed.