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5 designer personas every design team has to have
How Jason recruited his team — The Argonauts.
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A retrospective of incorporating nostalgia in design
No rose-tinted glasses for me.In the world of design, originality is a desirable and highly respected trait in the byproducts of the creative process but is admittedly a difficult feat. So why go through all the trouble, when you can “borrow” ideas that have worked from the past and do it again?
It ..
Designing financial products for the next billion users
India is at the cusp of a financial revolution and digital products are going to play a huge role in bringing about financial inclusion to the underserved. There is an immense opportunity for anyone interested in creating impacts on a large scale.Highlighting a few trends, some data, the challenges,..
Writing a design book — the tools
Write your book and get it published. Part 3.
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Learnings from designing for multi-language user interfaces
Designing for multiple languages has had an impact on the way I approach design decisions, regardless of the product being in one or several languages. The points covered in this story are based on some of the issues I encountered when designing for an existing and functioning product that was trans..
The real value of design transformation
We need new words and outcomes to shift how we work and win together.Photo by Ben TurnbullDesign transformation. Design-driven. Human-centered design. Design thinking. Design sprints.
These terms are everywhere you look around the business world. It would appear that Design is having its moment. And..
Creating CSS APIs without JavaScript With the datasette-css-properties plugin
Simon Willison has a project called Datasette, an open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data. I’m not sure I’m qualified to explain it, but it’s like a tool to make handling data easier and doing more — through the web — with data you have. Like making that data queryable and giving it..
New logo and identity for Burger King
An irreverently bold typeface, Flame Sans evokes the natural, organic shapes of food.
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Life of a pixel
A tour of the internals of Chrome’s rendering architecture, tracing the steps in the pipeline from web content to display pixels. Concretizes high-level concepts with pointers to important classes and data structures in the codebase.”
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Ordering CSS properties
I haven’t thought about ordering CSS properties in a while, but I began to work on the redesign of HTMHell recently and I decided to challenge my current approach.
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