{"id":6811,"date":"2025-04-22T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/?p=6811"},"modified":"2025-04-21T23:53:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T06:53:49","slug":"weekly-design-links-4-22-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/weekly-design-links-4-22-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Design Links \u2013 4\/22\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If this week has a theme, it’s technology. Maybe every week is about technology. Anyway, let’s not get into that\u2013let’s just look at the pretty, thoughtful, and wonderful links.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visual Development<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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_Ventures IV: The Sci-Fi Visual Aesthetic Project Of Exploration And Discovery
<\/a>According to an artist Ryan Hawthorne: \u201cVentures is series about taking the \u201cleap\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photography<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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A Stunning Image of the Australian Desert Illuminates the Growing Problem of Satellite Pollution
<\/a>When Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX launched Starlink in 2019, 60 satellites filled the skies, with a race from other companies to follow. That number has now topped 10,000, with tens of thousands more in the works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Industrial Design<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The Roam Smart Tracker Has a Fun, Eco-Friendly Build
<\/a>Smart trackers are becoming increasingly common, but few of them look as cool and unique as Roam<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turf Blends Acoustic Performance and Design to Transform Ceilings
<\/a>The Chicago-based acoustic solutions provider, known for its distinctive options for walls, now expands its ceiling scapes portfolio with the two new offerings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Technology<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Alexandre Devaux recreated the image-to-3D scene effect from Black Mirror
<\/a>Turn a photo into a 3D space explorable with VR<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Architecture<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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New Operations Workshop Crafts Harmony Between Structure and Nature
<\/a>This material duality \u2013 the blackened protective shell and light interior \u2013 traces back through both Japanese and Scandinavian design traditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

House in Toxofal \/ Manuel Tojal Architects
<\/a>Located in the village of Toxofal, this project involved the rehabilitation of a traditional 19th-century house that had been uninhabited for over 30 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Typography<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Introducing Kermit: A typeface for kids
<\/a>Using design to empower children by making reading easier, improving comprehension, and helping dyslexics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Web Design\/UX\/UI<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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How to Stop People from Skipping Your Onboarding
<\/a>Not because your UX is broken\u2014but because they skipped the onboarding copy you intentionally added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UX design for agents
<\/a>Microsoft principles and guidelines for building agentic experiences<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Work<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Adobe Design Talks: What is good design management?
<\/a>A conversation about the challenges and rewards of leading creative teams<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Random<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Nintendo Switch 2 Commercial Recreates Classic Paul Rudd SNES Ad
<\/a>Nintendo made an elaborate reference to an old Super Nintendo commercial with its latest Switch 2 ad, and Paul Rudd is involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It\u2019s a takedown of the AI bros owning the narrative in our daily feed”: creative director Guus ter Beek on his satirical game ChadGPT
<\/a>AI may have benefits \u2013 but we could do without the chads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If this week has a theme, it’s technology. Maybe every week is about technology. Anyway, let’s not get into that\u2013let’s just look at the pretty, thoughtful, and wonderful links. Visual Development _Ventures IV: The Sci-Fi Visual Aesthetic Project Of Exploration And DiscoveryAccording to an artist Ryan Hawthorne: \u201cVentures is series about taking the \u201cleap\u201d. Photography […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6826,"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":[132,16,14,10,74,17,18,21,20,29,133,134,19,30],"class_list":["post-6811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-links","tag-ai","tag-architecture","tag-industrial-design","tag-photography","tag-random","tag-technology","tag-typography","tag-ui","tag-ux","tag-video-games","tag-visual-development","tag-vizdev","tag-web-design","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Agentic-UX.jpg?fit=1536%2C675&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6811","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=6811"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6839,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6811\/revisions\/6839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}