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
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
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
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
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
Obsolete Sounds
The world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct