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The Title Cards in Blade Runner Are Fucking Amazing
Appreciating typography is a study in paradox. The primary goal of well-designed typography is to help you read the words, not appreciate how the words are comp
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on: 2026-08-06
What Colors Are We? Constructing A Color Space For Skin Tones
Simple equations and a color picker to inclusively select simplified skin tones in a custom color space for digital art or game development.
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on: 2026-08-05
A few interesting modern pixel fonts – Unsung
A blog about software craft and quality
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on: 2026-05-27
Old matchboxes are igniting new ideas for these Indian creatives
Inspired by the visual language, cultural history, and format of matchboxes, three contemporary Indian projects are reimagining this object in strikingly different ways.
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on: 2026-05-07
Time travelling with IKEA catalogues 1951-2021 - IKEA Museum
Browse IKEA catalogues through the ages, reflecting different eras and lifestyles - a goldmine for the nostalgic, design enthusiasts and history buffs.
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on: 2025-10-08
Optician Sans
Optician Sans is a free font based on the historical Snellen and Sloan eye charts and optotypes used by opticians world wide for centuries.
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on: 2025-07-30
So Long, Figma. Thanks for Everything.
This is your future self. I know it’s weird, but I wanted to send a note back in time to you. Don’t ask me how I did it…let’s just say “It’s complicated.” Now I know you’re scared. I remember the…
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on: 2025-06-09
M3 Expressive: Engaging UX Design
Material’s latest evolution helps you make products even more engaging and easier to use.
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on: 2025-05-22
The history of album art
Matt Ström-Awn · Designer, leader, and coach focused on building exceptional products and teams.
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on: 2025-05-03
Download Free PNG & SVG Icons: Your Ultimate Icon Library
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on: 2025-04-12
In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox
History of checkboxes and radio buttons in user interfaces
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on: 2025-01-29
Design Token-Based UI Architecture
Describing established patterns for organizing design tokens and practical approaches for automation
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on: 2024-12-18
Unsolicited advice to my younger designer self - Microsoft Design - Medium
Last summer was my 3rd year working as a product designer in Microsoft. Before Microsoft, I worked as a graphic designer across a variety of different companies and thus, came in with some…
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on: 2024-12-06
The UX of LEGO Interface Panels - Interaction Magic
LEGO interface panels are beautiful, iconic, and great for learning interface design basics. I bought 52 of them from BrickLink to explore the design, layout and organisation of complex interfaces.
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on: 2024-11-29
Accessible Colour Palettes | Figma
Accessible Palettes has over 50+ AAA funky colour palettes for you to use in your next project!
To help push the web to be a more accessible place I thought it would be great to put together a list of exciting AAA colour combinations. It’s a common misconception that AAA colour palettes aren’t e...
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on: 2024-09-09
Just Our Type: The Story of Creating Figma Sans | Figma Blog
We’ve overhauled our entire visual identity from color palette to illustration style, and even commissioned a new typeface.
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on: 2024-09-09
The “Sun Motorway” is 65 years old: a short history of an extraordinary inf
May 19 1956 marked the laying of the first stone of the A1 Milan-Naples: check the gallery Domus and discover the story of the Sun Motorway in Italy.
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on: 2024-07-29
WALL·E
From a trash-filled Earth to the futuristic Axiom and back again, WALL·E is a finely crafted balance between consumerist dystopia and sixties space-race optimism. Please join me, then, for a detail…
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on: 2024-07-12
IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design
When IBM hired designers in the 1950s to shape how the public would see the new computing technology, the tech giant changed modern corporate branding forever.
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on: 2024-05-15
A beginner’s guide to making beautiful slides for your talks · ines.io
I love designing slides for my talks, so here are some of my not-so-secret secrets and three beginner-friendly steps for how you can up your slides game.
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on: 2024-02-19
Paper Sizes and Formats Explained: The Difference Between A4 and Letter
Paper sizes and formats explained: learn more about the difference between A4 and Letter paper formats.
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on: 2024-01-05
10 Dark Patterns in UX Design and How to Avoid Them
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on: 2023-12-02
How to pick more beautiful colors for your data visualizations
Choosing good colors for your charts is hard. This article tries to make it easier.
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on: 2023-12-01
IBM Design Language – Rebus
The IBM logo is one of our most valuable corporate assets and is among the most recognized identities in the world. It's the tangible symbol of our brand.
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on: 2023-11-07
How Disney Packed Big Emotion Into a Little Robot
Melding animation and reinforcement learning for free-ranging emotive performances
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on: 2023-10-11
Color for the Color-challenged
Rather than placing web folks into the bucket Developer or Designer, I think many people would find themselves somewhere in the gray zone in between, not at the extreme ends. I most certainly feel…
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on: 2023-10-05
A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials
Exploring the Applecore style
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on: 2023-09-25
U.S. Web Design System (USWDS)
USWDS makes it easier to build accessible, mobile-friendly government websites.
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on: 2023-09-11
Browsertech Digest: Figma is a File Editor
Hey folks, welcome to the digest! Today’s issue is about a pain point developers encounter when shipping desktop-class apps to the browser. File editors and...
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on: 2023-07-13
16 little UI design rules that make a big impact - Adham Dannaway
A step by step UI design case study to quickly fix an example user interface using logic-driven UI design tips.
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on: 2023-06-27
New Taschen book ‘The Computer’ is a monumental survey
‘The Computer’ from Taschen is a richly illustrated history of society’s ever-evolving relationship with the silicon chip
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on: 2023-05-30
Il Letterista - Insegne Dipinte a Mano
Il Letterista esegue insegne dipinte a mano, scritte vintage in oro zecchino e murales su vetrine, pareti interne ed esterne. Bottega fondata a Torino nel 2017
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on: 2023-04-11
https://wise.design/design-at-wise/stories/accessible-but-never-boring
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on: 2023-03-06
When Screens were Secondary: Mario Bellini's TCV 250 for Olivetti - Core77
Here in 2023 we carry small screens in our pocket--and have gigantic ones on our workstations, in our living rooms and even in our cars. So it might be difficult to imagine a time when screens were not as important, and even a desk-sized unit could have a tiny screen.
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on: 2023-01-31
The 12-bit rainbow palette
A palette of twelve colours chosen with consideration for how we perceive luminance, chroma, and hue
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on: 2022-11-19
A 900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692: A Complete Digital Scan |
Human beings got along perfectly well for hundreds of millennia without standardized taxonomies of color, but they didn’t do so in a globally connected culture full of logos, brands, and 24/7 screens.
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on: 2022-11-17
Blending Modes | Dan Hollick
Do you just click different blending modes until it sort of looks right?
Well, that probably won't change after you read this but at least you probably won't use Lighten or Darken again.
(you should bookmark this thread and use it as a reference)
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on: 2022-10-22
Feather – Simply beautiful open source icons
Feather is a collection of simply beautiful open source icons. Each icon is designed on a 24x24 grid with an emphasis on simplicity, consistency and readability.
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on: 2022-10-17
Why A4? – The Mathematical Beauty of Paper Size - Heidelberg Laureate Forum
Unless you have skipped a lot of school, or work, or both – or you live in the USA – you have probably used an A4 sheet of paper before now. Have you ever wondered …
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on: 2022-09-06
Hierarchy of Trust: The 5 Experiential Levels of Website Commitment
Sites must meet users' basic trust needs before asking for visitor information. The trust pyramid has 5 levels of user commitment, with separate design rules.
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on: 2022-07-12
50 Shades of Beige - Science Museum Blog
Assistant Curator Shaz Hussain explores the history of the personal computer to answer the ever important question: why beige?
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on: 2022-07-06
The Year in Design - Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design
Mobile is today’s first screen. So design responsively, focusing on content and structure first. Websites and apps alike should remove distractions and let people interact as directly as possible with content. 90 percent of design is typography. And the other 90 percent is whitespace. Boost usability and increase pleasure with progressive disclosure: menus & functions that appear only when needed.
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on: 2022-04-26
DALL·E 2 and The Origin of Vibe Shifts - Divinations - Every
By Means of Natural Selection
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on: 2022-04-23
Coolors - The super fast color palettes generator!
Generate or browse beautiful color combinations for your designs.
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on: 2022-03-16
10 things I wish every design student knew | by Cameron Moll | Medium
This week I had the privilege of speaking to design students at two universities about my career. Here are some of the things I shared, most of which were answers to their questions. 1. The greatest…
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on: 2021-06-22
Archivio Grafica Italiana
The first systematic digital archive dedicated to the Italian graphic design heritage. A growing overview aimed to spread and promote the culture of quality that distinguishes the Italian design tradition.
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on: 2021-01-13
7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI – Part 2 (Updated for 2020) – Learn UI Des
How to safely overlay text on images · Making text pop – and un-pop · Only use good fonts · Steal like an artist
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on: 2020-12-18
Design Books by Womxn & People of Color
Thank you for your support. This book collection has been mentioned in the newsletters of Creative Mornings, Women Talk Design, InVisible Talk, and Neon Moiré. If you find this resource valuable, share with others, and support more work like this for the price of a coffee.
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on: 2020-08-17
7 Practical Tips for Cheating at Design | by Adam Wathan & Steve Schoger |
Every web developer inevitably runs into situations where they need to make visual design decisions, whether they like it or not. Maybe the company you work for doesn’t have a full-time designer and…
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on: 2020-08-17
robinsloan/perfect-edition: A lightweight, responsive web e-book template
A lightweight, responsive web e-book template
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on: 2020-07-29
The “I’m new to design” starter pack | by Sara Clayton | UX Collective
If you’re a Twitter user by any means, chances are good that you’ve seen these sorts of memes at some point: As someone who has made the transition from marketing to design, I occasionally get…
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on: 2020-07-22
Embedded Rules of Thumb
26 April 2018 by Phillip Johnston • Last updated 10 June 2021You may call them guidelines, heuristics, or rules of thumb. No matter, the purpose is the same: to provide a reasonable approximation of the truth. These rules of thumb can help guide your understanding of the systems you work on, focus you toward the … Continue reading "Embedded Rules of Thumb"
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on: 2020-06-01
The Vintage Beauty Of Soviet Control Rooms
Just for the pleasure, a selection of vintage control rooms dating back to the Soviet era! A beautiful collection of control rooms filled with large buttons and
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on: 2020-05-28
The Obvious UI is Often the Best UI - Google Design - Medium
Voltaire said, “le sens commun est fort rare”—common sense is very rare. Perhaps to realize that a certain decision is common sense, one has to have enough life experience to know the right path to…
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on: 2019-10-10
goabstract/Awesome-Design-Tools: The best design tools and plugins for everything 👉
The best design tools and plugins for everything 👉 - goabstract/Awesome-Design-Tools
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on: 2019-04-05
Color Spaces – Bartosz Ciechanowski
Interactive article explaining color spaces and how they're used to express color.
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on: 2019-02-17
A Designer’s Little Helpers – Hinderling Volkart – Medium
A list of useful tools, extensions and features from my bookmark bar to ease your day at work and beyond.
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on: 2019-02-14
The Book of Shaders
Gentle step-by-step guide through the abstract and complex universe of Fragment Shaders.
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on: 2019-01-31
Bauhaus at 100: its legacy in five key designs | Art and design | The Guard
The aesthetic of the German art school has influenced everything from typography at airports to iPhones. Here are five key designs
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on: 2019-01-22
7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI (Part 1) – Erik D. Kennedy – Medium
If you went to art school or consider yourself a UI designer already, you will likely find this guide some combination of a.) boring, b.) wrong, and c.) irritating. That’s fine. All your criticisms…
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on: 2019-01-14
A Brief History of Design – Microsoft Design – Medium
It is easy to question everything designed before you when you join a new company. I mean, why the heck would a scroll bar be red in Windows 2.0 … what could they have possibly been thinking?! But…
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on: 2018-12-06
Top 5 Hot Graphic Design Trends – Neringa – Medium
In my experience as a graphic designer, one of the most exciting parts of my work is exploring new visual trends. The beauty lies in the constant change of graphic design styles returning from the…
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on: 2018-08-02
Web Typography Resources for Web Designers and Web Developers | Better Web
Web typography for web designers and web developers.
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on: 2018-07-31
Is timeless UI design a thing?
Trends come and go, fonts become uncool, buttons aren't supposed to have round corners... but what if UI design became timeless?
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on: 2018-07-09
Material Design is a political choice
Google's Material Design is only a single perspective of what constitutes good design, closing the door on other different aesthetics.
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on: 2018-06-18
How Frank Chimero Designs a Poster | The Work Behind The Work
How Frank Chimero Designs a Poster
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on: 2018-06-11
Fonts for Complex Data | News, Notes & Observations | Hoefler & Co.
Retail displays, packaged goods, financial reports and apps all present readers with a dizzying array of data. Here are a few ways to make quick work of their long lists, tiny annotations, and mighty stacks of numbers.
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on: 2018-05-09
FATTO-BENE
Fattobene means well made in Italian. It is an online shop and a platform to archive and sell Italian everyday archetypes that have a long history.
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on: 2018-04-04
A Five-Minute Guide to Better Typography — Pierrick Calvez
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on: 2017-10-10
A is for Albert
An animated alphabetical adventure exploring the highs and lows of parenting.
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on: 2017-02-21
Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People
The original website about deceptive patterns (also known as “dark patterns”) - tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things that you didn't mean to, like buying or signing up for something.
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on: 2016-12-06
Perché iniziamo ogni nuovo progetto con un Design Sprint | Sergio Panagia |
[Pubblicato originariamente in lingua inglese su Medium il 25 agosto 2016] “FAIL FAST” è probabilmente l’espressione più abusata nell’ambiente startup: imparare dai propri errori e iterare velocemente sul prodotto dovrebbe essere il modo migliore per avvicinarsi al successo. Quando si tratta di mett
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on: 2016-09-29
ColorDrop
Browse thousands of beautiful colors palettes and generate your own with AI. 100% free, no login required.
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on: 2016-07-28
Colors - A nicer color palette for the web.
Colors.css - A nicer color palette for the web.
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on: 2016-06-07
A Simple Web Developer’s Color Guide — Smashing Magazine
Laura Elizabeth never found color theory useful when trying to use color in her projects. Somewhat ironically, she’s been finding that the better she got at choosing and using color, the better she became in the theory behind it. In this article, Laura shares a simple color workflow that you can use in your next web project.
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on: 2016-04-06