{"id":7265,"date":"2025-08-26T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/?p=7265"},"modified":"2025-08-26T00:50:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T07:50:29","slug":"weekly-design-links-8-26-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/weekly-design-links-8-26-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Design Links \u2013 8\/26\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There\u2019s a lot happening in the world right now, and I\u2019m not here to solve it, but I can\u2019t ignore it either. Things feel heavy, with inequity, injustice, and division all around us. These posts are my way of celebrating positive creative output. Sometimes that means sharing stories that are tough to read or that shine a light on overlooked perspectives. More often, it\u2019s simply about sharing what makes me happy\u2014hoping it brings a little of the same to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Web Design\/UX\/UI<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Ten tips for integrating brand into products
<\/a>Good UX is invisible; your brand is what people will remember<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Industrial Design<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The ModRetro Chromatic Is a High-End Game Boy Revival for \u201990s Kids
<\/a>Where Nintendo\u2019s classic handheld had a lightweight plastic shell and a simple color display, the Chromatic takes the same form factor and infuses it with a premium, collector-grade feel. Its magnesium alloy body gives it a solid, durable build that feels far more substantial than its 1998 predecessor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FolderDrive Transforms the Mac Folder Icon Into a Real USB Drive
<\/a>Who says storage has to be boring? For decades, the USB drive has been treated purely as a utilitarian tool \u2013 small, black, and entirely devoid of personality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Art\/Animation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Gaia Alari communicates universal feelings in her bespoke stop motion animations and illustrations
<\/a>The Milan-based creative is creating work for musicians and publications full of texture and abstract movements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Architecture<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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A Look at NBA Locker Room Design
<\/a>In America, professional athletes are the closest thing we have to actual superheroes, and teams lavish money on locker room design to keep players happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Work<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The Management Skill Nobody Talks About
<\/a>Let me tell you something that will happen after you become a manager: you\u2019re going to mess up. A lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tech debt isn\u2019t an \u2018IT issue.\u2019 It\u2019s a business strategy
<\/a>The multimillion-dollar problem CEOs are ignoring\u2014and what to do about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Books<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Enshittification: the DRM-free audiobook
<\/a>Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Greatest Books of All Time
<\/a>This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 664 ‘best of’ book lists to form a definitive guide to the world’s most acclaimed books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Random<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Dicing an Onion the Mathematically Optimal Way
<\/a>We looked at all 19,320 combinations of onion layer numbers, vertical\/radial cut numbers, radial cut depth (as whole number percentages), and horizontal cut numbers that are possible with this model. We then found which technique results in the minimum standard deviation when making 1-10 vertical\/radial cuts into an onion with 7-13 layers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s a lot happening in the world right now, and I\u2019m not here to solve it, but I can\u2019t ignore it either. Things feel heavy, with inequity, injustice, and division all around us. These posts are my way of celebrating positive creative output. Sometimes that means sharing stories that are tough to read or that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7284,"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":[34,16,9,43,11,14,74,21,20,19,30],"class_list":["post-7265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-links","tag-animation","tag-architecture","tag-art","tag-books","tag-branding","tag-industrial-design","tag-random","tag-ui","tag-ux","tag-web-design","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/NBA-locker-rooms.jpg?fit=880%2C494&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7265","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=7265"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7288,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7265\/revisions\/7288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}