{"id":7683,"date":"2025-12-16T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/?p=7683"},"modified":"2025-12-16T09:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T17:37:17","slug":"weekly-design-links-12-16-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/weekly-design-links-12-16-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Design Links \u2013 12\/16\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I almost bailed on today’s post. It’s the end of the year, and I’ve got quite a few balls in the air. Will it calm down in the new year\u2013doubtful. Enjoy the ride, that’s all we can do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graphic Design<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Magical Athlete
<\/a>Design and Art Direction for game design studio CMYK\u2019s re-release of the cult classic roll & move game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Barcode as a design object
<\/a>The barcode is an incredibly interesting and rather unique graphic device<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Web Design\/UX\/UI<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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How UX Professionals Can Lead AI Strategy
<\/a>Lead your organization\u2019s AI strategy before someone else defines it for you. A practical framework for UX professionals to shape AI implementation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AI Coding Agents for Designers
<\/a>In an increasing number of technology companies, the majority of code is being written by AI coding agents. While that primarily boosts software developer productivity, they aren’t the only ones that can benefit from this transformation. Here’s how AI coding agents can also help designers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to make your colour palette usable for accessibility
<\/a>Having a useful palette is the foundation of an inclusively designed brand. You can\u2019t expect people to build inclusive experiences when their building blocks have issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Industrial Design<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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UNIMATIC x Maxfield Debut Stealth, All-Black Chronograph Watch
<\/a>UNIMATIC was established by Politecnico di Milano industrial design graduates Giovanni Moro and Simone Nunziato to re-interpret the best qualities of the past in a present cadre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Architecture<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Charred cedar facade enfolds kiln-inspired sauna in japan
<\/a>Ujizono Architects + bench Craft a Kiln-Inspired Sauna in Kasama<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tools<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Slop Evader
<\/a>This is a search tool that will only return content created before ChatGPT’s first public release on November 30, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Random<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Pixel Fireplace | Orange Fire | 3 Logs
<\/a>Do I need to explain this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A LEGO creator in Japan built a fully automated paper-airplane machine from scratch
<\/a>The debate in the comments isn’t worth your time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I almost bailed on today’s post. It’s the end of the year, and I’ve got quite a few balls in the air. Will it calm down in the new year\u2013doubtful. Enjoy the ride, that’s all we can do. Graphic Design Magical AthleteDesign and Art Direction for game design studio CMYK\u2019s re-release of the cult classic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7706,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[34,16,13,14,58,74,49,21,20,19],"class_list":["post-7683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-links","tag-animation","tag-architecture","tag-graphic-design","tag-industrial-design","tag-lego","tag-random","tag-tools","tag-ui","tag-ux","tag-web-design"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Pixel-Fireplace.jpg?fit=2006%2C1134&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7683","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=7683"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7715,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7683\/revisions\/7715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}