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The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)
John Maeda • 3 highlights
amazon.com
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
Resources on Product Design
drocarmo.com
Peanut Pearls: the aperitif of my @rosewoodlondon residency menu
Yoghurt covered raisins are decorated with silver paint and dust then sealed inside empty peanut shells— this has by far been one of my favourite dishes to develop 🤍
Paired with @ruinart R de Ruinart Brut for a little play on... See more
instagram.comThis woman’s work is certainly a definition of food porn.
Designing Friction
designingfriction.com
We like to see designing friction as a fundamental design principle when working with digital culture. Instead of following design ethics that strive to eliminate friction we suggest to not only allow, but embrace friction, facilitate it: design [products with] digital technology in a way that makes space for our humanness. Here friction is a core ingredient. Digital technology should create environments and situations in which we can truly connect with each other, as well as with the unknown, the uncontrolled, with all senses, all elements, all emotions. Create situations that are not calculated beforehand, predicted and measured; situations that result from and amount to the present moment.
