Running a little behind schedule today–but that seems to be a theme lately. I’ll catch up soon. Juggling was never my strong suit. It wasn’t the throwing, I was never great at the catching part. I was much better with a yo-yo. Rock the baby, man on the flying trapeze, and round the worlds all day long.
Work
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Design Principles
When you’re faced with conflicting choices in the design process, good principles help you break the tie
Design Systems and Design Operations for small design teams
As a small design team, we need to ensure that the team is set up and structured to enable every role in the team to deliver impactful results
How to ace a design leader job interview
Tips from Adobe’s VP of Digital Media Design on what to share, ask, and show to score that role
Web Design/UX/UI
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The Figma to Browser Chasm
Sometimes a Figma mock is too easily conflated with the end product
How to evaluate the UX maturity of a company
Some of the characteristics of low UX maturity companies…
UX Designers, you are ruining the internet
Use your powers for good, not evil
Marketing/3D
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Nike’s Air Max Day 3D billboard is ludicrously epic
Robots, lasers, lightning bolts, bubbles and a giant scorpion
Pepsi’s new logo is a subliminal war on sugar
Pepsi launched a new logo and brand system that uses high contrast visuals to sell Zero Sugar products.
PORTO ROCHA’s vibrant identity for Netflix is a Joke: The Festival is a deliberate laughingstock
Billed as ‘probably’ the biggest comedy event ever
Industrial Design
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Who Needs Joinery? Experimental Furniture Held Together with Straps
The Combines collection, by furniture design studio Antti Tuomi
A Smart Home Comes to Roost for Backyard Chickens Inside The COOP
From the design team that brought you the Nest thermostat
Random
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Obsolete Sounds
The world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct