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Weekly Design Links – 3/25/25

I can’t even right now. I’ve been on tech support for almost two hours. They can’t explain what the problem was–it just became resolved. That’s until it happens again. I’ll stop… enjoy the links.

Animation

A Trio of Stop-Motion Shorts Utilize an Involved 3D-Printing Technique
Popularized by George Pal in the 1930s and ’40s, replacement animation involves creating distinctive models for each movement. Where Pal used wooden characters, though, Cunningham and Ménard opted for 3D-printed figures for their new anthology, TRIPLE BILL.

Web Design/UX/UI

Color contrast accessibility requirements explained
There are contrast ratio requirements for accessible text, non-text, and links that aren’t underlined. Once you know the contrast ratio requirements, it’s easy to design to these standards.

Design Systems Report 2025
Welcome to the Design Systems Report 2025, diving into the state of design systems, your teams, documentation, and design tokens.

Five Ways to Save UX
Systems are becoming more complicated and inter-connected, and the kludge factor is only increasing. It seems that technology is buckling under its own weight. User experiences are obviously getting worse. The world does not love technology.

Our interfaces have lost their senses
All day, we poke, swipe, and scroll through flat, silent screens. But we’re more than just eyes and a pointer finger. We think with our hands, our ears, our bodies. The future of computing is being designed right now. Can we build something richer—something that moves with us, speaks our language, and molds to our bodies?

Industrial Design

Orchid ORC—1000
Orchid is an advanced chord generating synthesiser designed to help musicians of all levels find what’s on their mind. Its intuitive design invites musicians to effortlessly generate, modify and experiment with new chords and progressions, and then apply voicings, sounds and performance styles.

Nothing’s (3a) Phones Continue Its Legacy of Futuristic Design
Nothing has been experimenting more with phone design than perhaps any other company, at least when it comes to traditional slide phones. The London-based tech brand just unveiled its latest and greatest devices in the form of the new Nothing Phone (3a) and Nothing Phone (3a) Pro.

Work

How I review design work
Defining what “good design” actually looks like.

Why it’s so hard to align our work with our values, and how we justify not trying
Compartmentalization at the individual level

Graphic Design

The New Swiss Passport Series
The Swiss passport is more than a formal administrative document. It is the expression of Helvetic identity and a brand ambassador for Switzerland abroad. It is a celebration of Swissness and a showcase of technological know-how.

Typography

Monotype presents ReVsion: Future Typography
We want to mark this moment in time, to celebrate design and typography’s progress, and to challenge all of us to envision what lies ahead by looking at the larger cultural forces shaping our time and work.

Art

En Iwamura
When Iwamura describes the space and scale in his works, he references the Japanese philosophy of Ma. Ma implies meanings of distance, moment, space, relationship, and more. People constantly read and measure different Ma between themselves, and finding the proper or comfortable Ma between people or places can provide a specific relationship at a given moment.