Weekly Design Links – 09/12/23

Doing these posts on Tuesdays, in Pacific (US) time, always coincides with Apple’s announcements. It’s a thing but in this asynchronous world, it doesn’t matter. We all make the time for the things that matter. Whether it’s the new iPhone or some pretty visual content, if it makes your life better we will find the energy to make it happen. Enjoy the new tech and hopefully these links too.

Web Design/UX/UI

Successful iteration requires going beyond agile
UX design methods are cheaper, faster, and more effective at gathering data than “build, measure, learn” — but agile is designed not to take advantage of them

Falling For Oklch: A Love Story Of Color Spaces, Gamuts, And CSS
Oklab and Oklch — have widened the field of color we have to work with

Architecture

Tsukuigaoka Kindergarten
By Naf Architect & Design

How An Architect Turned This 1930s Bungalow Into A Sustainable Family Haven
After lovingly restoring the South Marrickville house’s original features inside, their renovations also transformed it into a sustainable haven fit for the future

Graphic Design/Branding

A new modern look for the Android brand
Behind our new logo makeover

Case Study: Magma Math. Web Design for Educational Platform
Website creation process and custom graphics for the ed-tech platform

Industrial Design

Bang & Olufsen’s Fall 2023 Atelier Editions Are Pretty in Pink (and Lilac)
The color is specifically Lilac Twilight

Tools

Procreate Dreams
Create engaging hand-drawn animations, motion graphics and enhance them with photos, videos and sound

Chrome’s sidebar apps are the best new productivity feature no one’s talking about
Get vertical tabs, ChatGPT shortcuts, searchable bookmarks, and more

Astro 3.0
The first major web framework to support the View Transitions API. Fade, slide, morph, and even persist stateful elements across page navigation with ease