{"id":4850,"date":"2024-01-30T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/?p=4850"},"modified":"2024-01-29T21:56:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T05:56:54","slug":"weekly-design-links-01-30-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/weekly-design-links-01-30-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Design Links \u2013 01\/30\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I don’t know what happened to the first month of 2024. If the rest of this year goes by at this speed I don’t know how I’ll keep up. As usual, I’ll keep plugging away\u2013enjoy the links.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Art\/Sculpture<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Nastasya Shulyak<\/a>
The cutest little felted creatures<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Work<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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If you want to be creative, you can\u2019t be certain
<\/a>Embracing ambiguity as a superpower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How I Work: White House Creative Director Meena Yi
<\/a>White House Creative Director Meena Yi designs for both an audience of one (President Joe Biden) and 331 million (the people of the United States).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are you boring your interviewer by over-explaining context?
<\/a>How to use the power of narrative to engage interviewers with your design portfolio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graphic Design\/Branding<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Canadian National Railway by Allan Fleming, 1960
<\/a>The result conveyed a railroad on the move as the eye moves from C to N, the total image suggests fluidity and motion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trust the Process
<\/a>The Smith & Diction Identity Process<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Black Bee Honey
<\/a>Keep British Honey Wild<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Web Design\/UX\/UI<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Developer Experience by Addy Osmani
<\/a>Developer Experience (DX) is all about how easily and effectively developers can get things done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Designer\u2019s Guide To Redesign, Step-By-Step
<\/a>Good redesigns are evolutions, not revolutions. Useful guidelines on when and how to redesign, how to avoid pitfalls and how to help users embrace the new design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spotify Wrapped: a UX review
<\/a>They went big in 2023. Did it work?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Random<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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THEAtari 400 is on pre-order now \u2013 and I want it so badly
<\/a>Retro Games’ new mini console brings back a forgotten gem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know what happened to the first month of 2024. If the rest of this year goes by at this speed I don’t know how I’ll keep up. As usual, I’ll keep plugging away\u2013enjoy the links. Art\/Sculpture Nastasya ShulyakThe cutest little felted creatures Work If you want to be creative, you can\u2019t be certainEmbracing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4867,"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":[9,11,13,14,74,69,21,20,19,30],"class_list":["post-4850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-links","tag-art","tag-branding","tag-graphic-design","tag-industrial-design","tag-random","tag-sculpture","tag-ui","tag-ux","tag-web-design","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/creative-uncertainty.jpg?fit=1600%2C840&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4850","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=4850"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4875,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4850\/revisions\/4875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}