{"id":4517,"date":"2023-10-31T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/?p=4517"},"modified":"2023-10-30T22:29:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T05:29:11","slug":"weekly-design-links-10-31-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/weekly-design-links-10-31-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Design Links \u2013 10\/31\/23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I may take next week off. I’m not sure that I will, but I feel the need for a break coming. In the meantime\u2013this week’s links are pretty dang good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Industrial Design<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Coturn CT-01 Is a Portable Turntable You Can Toss Into a Backpack
<\/a>A solid anodized aluminum body, integrated glass top, and sleek integrated tone arm tipped with an Audio-Technica Stylus AT 3600 needle, measuring a mere 12.5 x 5 x 1 inches when folded up<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daniel Arsham x Hot Wheels Collection Crosses the Line Between Toys + Collectibles
<\/a>Artist Daniel Arsham has made a career of turning his favorite playthings into the subject of his artwork<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Work<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Hey designers, they\u2019re gaslighting you
<\/a>Too many organizations have convinced designers that they\u2019re the problem \u2014 that if they just worked harder, they\u2019d be taken seriously<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Easy (Yet Powerful) Ways to Increase Employee Retention
<\/a>Understanding how to retain employees is a critical component of managing your team<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The design manager\u2019s toolkit
<\/a>Take the best of being a designer and create a durable playbook for handling challenges as a manager<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Web Design\/UX\/UI<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Clarify Your Thinking by Drawing Concept Maps
<\/a>A concept map is a diagram that represents relationships between concepts or entities. As such, it represents a model of a system or situation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Power of Variable Fonts: An Interview with Jason Pamental
<\/a>Variable fonts are reinventing type on the web. Jason Pamental discusses benefits, adoption and a promising new concept that is set to massively improve the performance of web fonts<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s 2023, here is why your web design sucks
<\/a>Exploring the reasons why we no longer have web designers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tools<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Passkeys: what they are, and how they work
<\/a>We all use passwords every day to sign in to our devices and online accounts. But that doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re a perfect solution<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Art<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Thiago Tallmann
<\/a>Art Direction & Design<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Random<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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We were never supposed to see our own faces this much
<\/a>From mirrors to Zoom calls and TikToks, we are constantly faced with our own reflections \u2013 and it is completely changing the way we conceive of ourselves<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tails Of\u2026 Every Skateboard Book We Could Find
<\/a>A list of every skateboard books with options to buy\u2013if it’s available (shameless self-promotion here)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Pudding breaks down Spotify’s music genres
<\/a>In 2016, Spotify began publishing a list of the most popular music genres on its platform…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I may take next week off. I’m not sure that I will, but I feel the need for a break coming. In the meantime\u2013this week’s links are pretty dang good. Industrial Design Coturn CT-01 Is a Portable Turntable You Can Toss Into a BackpackA solid anodized aluminum body, integrated glass top, and sleek integrated tone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,14,74,49,21,20,19,30],"class_list":["post-4517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-links","tag-art","tag-industrial-design","tag-random","tag-tools","tag-ui","tag-ux","tag-web-design","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/music-genres.jpg?fit=1348%2C841&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4517"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4545,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517\/revisions\/4545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}