Weekly Design Links – 10/10/23

Humans are strangely affected by numbers, patterns, chords, and repetition. We gravitate towards them like moths to a light. We can’t look away. We seek them out in chaos. We constantly try to bring some logic to the thousands of data points in our vision. We want things to make sense, to see the system behind the chaos, and we’ll often create a logic where there is none to satisfy our need for order. Smart data folks know this. Correlation is not causation. Our brains aren’t interested in facts. The brain needs to connect the dots. I’ve read (and felt) that the brain is a story machine. It tries to create a narrative from all of the inputs. Dreams are a great connector of leftover thoughts, visuals, and moments–and usually, these end up in some crazy story during REM. These stories have little to do with truth but people labor over their meaning anyway. What does all this have to do with beautiful links? Nothing, but I’m sure your brain can find a story to make it fit.

Web Design/UX/UI

Footer
“We saw a need for footer-specific inspiration in the web design space and decided to build an MVP site to collect and curate inspiration for our fellow designers.”

How to build trust with others by organizing your Figma files
Creating an organizational management system to deliver assets will improve the speed and quality of your work, enable better collaboration and gain deeper trust with your partners

Industrial Design

A 3D Artist Designed His Perfect Workflow Keyboard
3D artist and motion designer Ben Fryc conjures his own keyboard, The Knob / k•no•b•1.

Art

A Daily Cloud
Happy cloud art in your feed every day by Chris Judge

Unfolded Origami Works by Sipho Mabona Reflect on Inevitable Transformations
Large-scale folds inspired by beastly and geological shapes

Work

Design as craft is over
Design is like cooking. Most people need the nourishment, only a few want a gourmet meal

Dan Mall’s 10 principles for a worthy design career
He distills his experience into 10 pieces of advice for tackling complex tasks, preventing burnout, and fostering continuous learning

Graphic Design/Branding

Patreon, redesigned – a new brand identity built for, and with, creators
“Our new brand represents both our vision for the future of the creator economy and our commitment to creators that has guided us since day one.”

Meet the new Webflow
“A brand refresh and tribute to our community”

Nomad provide cyber security company F-Secure with an empathetic update for today’s digital world
The updated logo forms part of a modular graphic system to literally ‘protect’ imagery; using framing devices, to create bold patterns and provide space for typography and messaging

LEGG–Logo and Visual Identity
Legg is an abbreviation that combines the meanings of “legna” (wood in Italian), “legacy” and also “leg”