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2016-10-20 09:11:33     How the Web Became Unreadable

https://backchannel.com/...ecame-unreadable-a781ddc711b6#...

For example: Apple’s typography guidelines suggest tha... for a 7:1 contrast ratio. But what ratio, you might ask,... to state the guideline? It’s 5.5:1.
Apple’s guidelines for developers.

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2014-01-15 14:41:11     1 | Chopsticks Get A Makeover | Co.Design | business + design

http://www.fastcodesign.com/...chopstick-gets-a-makeover?...

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2013-02-19 07:46:54     Designer turns negative client comments into funny posters : theCHIVE

http://thechive.com/...omments-into-funny-posters-41-photos/

Mark Shanley, an Irish graphic designer, turned his favo... feedback comments” into hilarious posters. Now that’... criticism.

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2013-02-09 09:27:30     About | Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People

http://darkpatterns.org/vision/

DarkPatterns.org was set up by Harry Brignull. Dark Patt... interfaces that are intended to trick people. The purpos... to spread awareness, and to name and shame sites that us...

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2012-12-17 11:43:58     Oxygen Icons » About

http://www.oxygen-icons.org/?page_id=2#goals

Goals
“Make a break with the past and go in a new direct ...
A well designed concept supports usability and acces ...
Think! Being innovative and creative ensures our sta ...
... Really nice art, acceptance through beauty (sexy!) :-)

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2012-08-07 14:08:08     iPhone Prototypes - Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/iphone-prototypes-2012-7

The iPhone that was introduced in 2007 looked nothing li... prototypes designed behind the scenes at Apple HQ.
In fact, we were straight-up shocked by some of the desi ...
All these designs have entered the public domain because ...

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2012-07-12 12:45:36     Wrap Your Head Around These Gears - Core77

http://www.core77.com/...r_head_around_these_gears_21784.asp

0geardiff.jpg
Whether I listen to my brain, or my heart, I still
don't understand how these damn things work
When I told my Graphic Design professor that I wanted to ...
That was years ago, and orthographics, of course, are no ...

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2012-07-12 12:40:25     CAD versus Sketching, Why Ask? by James Self - Core77

http://www.core77.com/...ing_why_ask_by_james_self_21844.asp

nike_1.jpgImage Courtesy of Michael DiTullo
A continuing issue in industrial design education is whe ...
Instead of setting constraints or limitations to dictate ...

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2012-06-12 07:49:45     BBC News - Geek chic: When fashion meets technology

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17551859

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2012-04-11 14:46:27     Designers Don’t Like UCD - Hidden Gems

http://myddelton.co.uk/post/20896.../designer-centred-design

if user-centred design principles are missing from proje... because designers don’t want them there in the first place

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2012-04-03 11:42:08     LukeW | An Event Apart: Content First

http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1525

In his opening keynote at An Event Apart in Seattle, WA ... Zeldman talked about the need to keep content front and ... and the Web design process. Here's my notes from his tal...
Content is really a design problem. Yet the sites we ...

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2012-02-07 17:32:19     Out of the box on Vimeo

http://vimeo.com/26489936

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2011-10-12 18:33:41     Kern Type, the kerning game

http://type.method.ac/#

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2011-10-11 16:54:01     I've been staring at this quote from James Dyson for the... on Twitpic

http://twitpic.com/6yrhqj

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2011-08-31 11:11:40     Royal Pingdom: When data center cabling becomes art

http://royal.pingdom.com/...data-center-cabling-becomes-art/

We have posted pics of some truly messy data center cabl...
Artful cabling 1
Courtesy of Digital:Slurp.

... re this is practical or not, but it LOOKS impressive…)

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2011-08-31 11:08:53     A Story About Steve Jobs And Attention To Detail : The Two-Way : NPR

http://www.npr.org/...steve-jobs-and-attention-to-detail?...

The CEO of Apple — the tech visionary who revolutioniz... computers, the way we listen to music and the way we thi... devices — was worried about the yellow in the second "... Needless to say the problem was fixed, and Gundotra says...
"It was a l

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2011-07-24 20:11:49     What Apple Has That Google Doesn’t - An Auteur - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/...t-google-doesnt-an-auteur.html?...

Two years ago, the technology blogger John Gruber presen... Auteur Theory of Design,” at the Macworld Expo. Mr. Gr...
The auteur, a film director who both has a distinctive v ...
“The quality of any collaborative creative endeavor te ...
Two years a

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2011-05-13 15:14:08     Lost Garden: Game Design Logs

http://www.lostgarden.com/2011/05/game-design-logs.html

Game design is a process of informed iteration, not a fi...
How to write a design log
Start with a concept: At the very bottom of the des ...
Build the prototype: Design logs exist as a supplem ...
... stuff is at the top and the old stuff is

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2011-01-27 08:25:50     Why You Hate Comic Sans

http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/why-you-hate-comic-sans/

Everyone loves to hate Comic Sans. The child-like handwr... infamous, there is a movement to try to ban it. Mention ... common layman (aside from a preschool teacher), and you ... chuckle, mention it to a trained designer, and you’ll ... disgust. Bu

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2010-08-02 14:00:34     About | Fubiz™

http://www.fubiz.net/about/

Depuis mai 2005, le site Fubiz est axé sur les sujets d... de la culture urbaine, des produits tendances et des art... baseline Daily dose of inspiration, une version disponib... avec neuf galeries, un espace collaboratif et de nouveau...
version3-1

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2009-08-11 12:24:34     What will communication devices look like in 2033?

http://www.designworldonline.com/...s-look-like-in-2033.aspx

Twenty-five years after the creation of the cell phone, ... Motorola imagined what cell phones might look like in an... years. The Consumer Xperience Design (CXD) team created ... sketches that look beyond what is possible today and ima... possibiliti

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2009-07-13 13:18:50     squared circle : craig oldham

http://www.craigoldham.co.uk/experimental/squared-circle/

squared circle
An experiment with shape.
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This is a personal project that I did to satisfy my curi ...
... Then it gets playful.

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2009-02-04 10:14:46     Balsa Wood Mock-Up Modeling Tutorial

http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/design/proc.../index.html

Balsa Wood Mock-Up Modeling Tutorial
ENTER

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2008-02-21 10:53:22     plans are nothing,planning is everything

Tomm Inns quoted at D21 meeting Feb 2008:
"plans are nothing,planning is everyting" Eisenhower

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2008-01-24 20:05:01     The Laws of Simplicity » About

http://lawsofsimplicity.com/about/

This site is devoted to my ongoing thought processes reg... simplicity. I wrote and designed a book entitled The Law...
I have had many suggestions over the recent months with ...
As for the grand challenge of the modern simplicity move ...
I look forw

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2006-02-05 18:19:39     information aesthetics - locative

http://infosthetics.com/archives/locative/

starbucks center of gravity
17 January 2006
starbuckscenterofgravity.jpga world problem finally solv ...

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