Is Apple capable of designing a usable mouse?
Remembering Jobs’ relentless approach to product design, and how a sufficient mouse design never came to be
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The world is running on bad UI.
We get excited by the new, slick, modern apps, yet things that are important are outdated AF.
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Dispo app, dark UX patterns for kids, real-time collab in Sketch
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.“The differences in my mind are mostly those of scope, responsibility, and visibility.
As a lead designer, your focus is the project, and your responsibilities are to ensure that you work cross-functionally with PM and Engineering to deliv..
Designing honesty
Putting Dieter Ram’s sixth principle of good design in practice.Recently, I came across the 2018 documentary Ramsdirected by Gary Hustwit, detailing the life and influence of legendary German industrial designer Dieter Rams.
Rams is known for his “less is better” approach and industrial design works..
Framer is still alive and well… and its a game-changer
Framer is still alive and well… and it’s a game-changerA love letter to my prototyping tool of choice.Earlier, this week, this post came across my feed: “Framer is Dead.”
Impossible. I’ve been using it non-stop for the past month.
Sadly, this post has gotten some traction, and I’ve seen it pop-up on..
Monsieur Bézier and his elegant curves
Design essentials: Bézier curves.
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The 4 Tendencies and how we can use them in user experience design
What if all our users fall into these four groups?
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Why planning is hard
Behaviors & biases in planningPhoto by Hans-Peter GausterThe past few months have been pretty busy at work. We’ve started an exercise where we are evaluating a product — currently manufactured in our European & North American factories — to be manufactured in our Asian factories to serve the regiona..
To add is expected, to subtract is design
A couple years ago I wrote about how healthcare should take customer experience guru Dan Gingiss’s advice: do simple better. Now new research illustrates why this is so hard: when it comes to trying to make improvements, people would rather add than subtract.
That, in a nutshell, may help explain wh..
Instagram can’t touch the visual glory of blank VHS tapes
The arranged marriage between color and typography lives onA Retape 180 blank VHS tape. Source: WallHaven.A thing of beauty will never fade away. Those blank VHS tapes from the 80s? They look just as good in 2021. Vibrant Instagram images with layers of filters can’t hold a candle to these boxes in ..
