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October 3 2023

The constant tension between design tools and soft skills

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As a designer, we’re constantly pulled in two directions: towards learning new design tools and towards honing our soft skills.

Articles

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Unfolded Origami Works by Sipho Mabona Reflect on Inevitable Transformations

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In Transcending the Garden, Sipho Mabona pushes the boundaries of origami through large-scale folds.

Inspiration

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Tabletop RPGs Have a Design Debt to Pay

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How bad design haunts us.

Articles

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Making a Website is for Everyone

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Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

Essay

Credit: Jim Nielsen

How a font website dishonestly earns money

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Fontesk’s deceptive font distribution practices, and how type designers can safeguard their typographic creations from exploitation.

Typography

Credit: UX Collective

 

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Silly Co Valley, text-wrap: balance, Naming Things, Humming-Birds, AI-Generated Images

Monday, October 2, 2023

The 5 best design links, every day. Curated by a selection of great editors. Email not displaying properly? View browser version. Sidebar October 2 2023 Silly Co Valley sillycovalley.com A fast-paced

Design System, Color Ramp, Google Birthday, Microsoft Copilot, Grungy Textures

Friday, September 29, 2023

The 5 best design links, every day. Curated by a selection of great editors. Email not displaying properly? View browser version. Sidebar September 29 2023 Design System Challenge: Rebranding 100+

Melted Eggs, All Objects, Accessibility Overlays, Gen Z, Halfsies

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

The 5 best design links, every day. Curated by a selection of great editors. Email not displaying properly? View browser version. Sidebar September 27 2023 Can you melt eggs? Quora's AI says “yes,”

Type Scales, Threads CSS, Twitter Throttling, Typography Tips, AI Hallucination

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

The 5 best design links, every day. Curated by a selection of great editors. Email not displaying properly? View browser version. Sidebar September 26 2023 Responsive type scales with composable CSS

linear(), EmojiGen, State of HTML, Accessibility Drama, Spirals

Monday, September 25, 2023

The 5 best design links, every day. Curated by a selection of great editors. Email not displaying properly? View browser version. Sidebar September 25 2023 The Path To Awesome CSS Easing With The

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