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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
Saved 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.
Saved on: 2026-08-05

A few interesting modern pixel fonts – Unsung

A blog about software craft and quality
Saved 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.
Saved 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.
Saved 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.
Saved 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…
Saved on: 2025-06-09

M3 Expressive: Engaging UX Design

Material’s latest evolution helps you make products even more engaging and easier to use.
Saved on: 2025-05-22

The history of album art

Matt Ström-Awn · Designer, leader, and coach focused on building exceptional products and teams.
Saved on: 2025-05-03

uchū

uchū is the color palette for internet lovers, by NetOperator Wibby.
Saved on: 2025-02-17

In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox

History of checkboxes and radio buttons in user interfaces
Saved on: 2025-01-29

Design Token-Based UI Architecture

Describing established patterns for organizing design tokens and practical approaches for automation
Saved 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…
Saved 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.
Saved 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...
Saved 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.
Saved on: 2024-09-09

Routed Gothic Font

Saved on: 2024-09-04

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.
Saved 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…
Saved 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.
Saved 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.
Saved 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.
Tags: #guide #design
Saved on: 2024-01-05

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.
Saved 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.
Saved on: 2023-11-07

How Disney Packed Big Emotion Into a Little Robot

Melding animation and reinforcement learning for free-ranging emotive performances
Saved 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…
Saved on: 2023-10-05

A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials

Exploring the Applecore style
Saved on: 2023-09-25

U.S. Web Design System (USWDS)

USWDS makes it easier to build accessible, mobile-friendly government websites.
Saved on: 2023-09-11

Typography

Saved on: 2023-07-19

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...
Saved 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.
Tags: #design #tips #ui
Saved 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
Saved 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
Saved on: 2023-04-11

RoomGPT

Generate your dream room in seconds.
Saved on: 2023-03-05

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.
Saved on: 2023-01-31

#132: The contagious visual blandness of Netflix

And how to treat it
Saved on: 2023-01-23

The 12-bit rainbow palette

A palette of twelve colours chosen with consideration for how we perceive luminance, chroma, and hue
Saved 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.
Saved on: 2022-11-17

Wolf Review

Taras Wolf Architect design review Wolf Architects
Tags: #design
Saved on: 2022-10-22

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)
Saved 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.
Saved 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 …
Saved 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.
Tags: #design #ux
Saved 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?
Saved 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.
Saved on: 2022-04-26

DALL·E 2 and The Origin of Vibe Shifts - Divinations - Every

By Means of Natural Selection
Saved on: 2022-04-23

Coolors - The super fast color palettes generator!

Generate or browse beautiful color combinations for your designs.
Saved on: 2022-03-16

Design Principles

An Open Source collection of Design Principles and methods
Saved on: 2021-09-13

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…
Saved 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.
Tags: #art #design
Saved on: 2021-01-13

Fantasy UIs

Tags: #design
Saved on: 2020-12-24

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
Saved 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.
Tags: #design #books
Saved 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…
Saved on: 2020-08-17

robinsloan/perfect-edition: A lightweight, responsive web e-book template

A lightweight, responsive web e-book template
Saved 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…
Saved 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"
Saved 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
Saved 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…
Saved 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
Tags: #tools #design
Saved on: 2019-04-05

Color Spaces – Bartosz Ciechanowski

Interactive article explaining color spaces and how they're used to express color.
Saved 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.
Tags: #tools #design
Saved on: 2019-02-14

The Book of Shaders

Gentle step-by-step guide through the abstract and complex universe of Fragment Shaders.
Saved 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
Tags: #art #design
Saved 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…
Saved 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…
Tags: #art #design
Saved 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…
Tags: #design
Saved on: 2018-08-02

Web Typography Resources for Web Designers and Web Developers | Better Web

Web typography for web designers and web developers.
Saved 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?
Saved 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.
Saved on: 2018-06-18

How Frank Chimero Designs a Poster | The Work Behind The Work

How Frank Chimero Designs a Poster
Tags: #art #design
Saved 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.
Saved 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.
Tags: #art #design
Saved on: 2018-04-04

Art of the Title

Saved on: 2017-10-31

A is for Albert

An animated alphabetical adventure exploring the highs and lows of parenting.
Saved 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.
Saved 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
Saved on: 2016-09-29

ColorDrop

Browse thousands of beautiful colors palettes and generate your own with AI. 100% free, no login required.
Saved on: 2016-07-28

Colors - A nicer color palette for the web.

Colors.css - A nicer color palette for the web.
Saved 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.
Saved on: 2016-04-06
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