Design Digest | Late 2021
Max Stepanov
Product Design Lead. UXD, UXR, and HCI specialist. Experience in Product Design and Development, Design Management, and Digital Communication
Design Digest is a collection of articles and various design materials dedicated to the best international product design.
Articles:
How to start accessibility testing
Around the world, more than one billion people have some form of disability. So that’s about 15% to 20% of the world’s entire population.
To start testing for accessibility, Designers must overcome a few challenges.
UI design trends of today and how to apply them in your apps | by Sidney Alcantara | Nov 2021 | Bootcamp
How to design great keyboard shortcuts | Knock | Sam Seely
Keyboard shortcuts matter because they save us time. Even with modest assumptions, simple math points to regular use of keyboard shortcuts saving us days of the time a year.
Accessibility Myths Debunked By Sergei Kriger @_sergeikriger
Plask - Quickly animate your character with just a webcam
Plask is a great example of using neural networks in design. This service helps to animate 3D characters. You simply record the movement of a person on a webcam, and the service transfers it to a 3D model. Export to GLB, FBX, BVH formats.
Bauhaus Typography Is More Complicated Than You?Think
The Letterform Archive's new exhibition shows another side of the famously minimalist school. By Madeleine Morley @AIGAeyeondesign
Rejected Emojis
Here is a collection of emojis that have been rejected by the Unicode Consortium.
What is GPS?
The Global Positioning System is one of the most useful inventions of the late 20th century. It made it significantly easier for ships, airplanes, cars, and hikers. By Bartosz Ciechanowski
Creative Trends - FUTURE AND THE PAST
O1 METAVERSE
02 PSYCHEDELIC ART
03 AI-GENERATED MUSIC
04 Y2K AESTHETICS
05 SCIENCE. NOT FICTION
06 ACTS OF SELF-LOVE
07 THE ART OF SCROLLYTELLING
08 IMMERSIVE EVERYTHING
Big collection of terrible websites
The 100 greatest innovations of 2021
Explore the winners:
By POPULAR SCIENCE
Mobile Phone Museum
The new online museum of mobile phones. The catalog contains 2000+ devices of 200 different brands, from the ugliest to the most luxurious.
A Collection of Herzog & de Meuron's Striking Staircases
Written by Victor Delaqua | Translated by Becky Quintal | @ArchDaily
Adaptive, accessible, and automated colour for Design Systems | By Lucas Zhang
Calibrating contextual colours to be readable and recognisable anywhere.
Quant Diary Studies: An Introduction
Quantitative diary methods can provide a rich, detailed look into people’s everyday product experiences over time. Here’s how to decide whether and when to use them. By Cata Torre
Claymorphic 3d has been on our radar for a while with the growing popularity of both easier to use 3d tools, and a possible mindset shift among the population. By Michal Malewicz @michalmalewicz
4 ways to document your design system with Storybook
How to show UI components, specs, and usage guidelines together. By Varun Vachhar @winkerVSbecks
How to Improve Design Skills by Viewing the Best Works
Learn how to study top-rate designs to get the most benefits. By Erik Messaki @outcrowdstudio
First Principles: The Building Blocks of True Knowledge
First-principles thinking is one of the best ways to reverse-engineer complicated problems and unleash creative possibility. By Shane Parrish @ShaneAParrish
8 first principles of software design
?First principles are the building blocks of knowledge and basic assumptions that cannot be deduced from any other proposition or assumption. By Tom Parandyk @therapidcodeguy
Accessible design from the?get-go
Accessibility is?not an?exception to?the?Pareto principle. We believe that just about 20% of?designer effort can solve up to?80% of?accessibility challenges for digital interfaces. By Roman Shamin @romanshamin
When Customer Journeys Don’t Work: Arcs, Loops, & Terrain
Customer journeys are a great tool for cases where there is a clear path or flow, such as initial onboarding or the purchasing of a vehicle. But… By Stephen P. Anderson @stephenanderson
“Blasphemy, I need structure and order!”
The web is good at these things, just not in the ways that designers have been accustomed to working.
HUMAN-AI INTERACTION: INTERMITTENT, CONTINUOUS, AND PROACTIVE
With the rise in AI-driven interactive systems, both academics and practitioners within HCI have a growing focus on human-AI interaction. By Niels van Berkel, Mikael Skov, Jesper Kjeldskov
Stop thinking about flows, start thinking about objects
Why an object-oriented UX approach helps build scalable and consistent systems. By Matthias Dittrich @MatzeDittrich
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The Metaverse for NFT galleries & exhibitions
AR startup @spatialxr has raised $25 million in investment and developing an open metaverse focusing on virtual galleries where artists and collectors can freely communicate and participate in exhibitions.
How Dylan Field Won Over the Haters
The co-founder of Figma discusses his transformation from intern to CEO bringing collaboration to design. WRITTEN BY: Kevin Lincoln @sequoia
Payment Method UX: How to Design the Payment Selector | By @Baymard
Another interesting resource related to accessibility
The why and how to make your UX Research practice more inclusive.
UI cheat sheet: Accordions | by Tess Gadd @TessGadd
How Designers Can Prevent User Errors
By Jordan Bowman | UX Tools @uxtoolsco
>Install guardrails
>Offer suggestions
>Choose smart defaults
>Follow conventions
>Make actions clear
>Preview results
>Give real-time warnings
>Confirm high-stakes actions...
Operating System Interface Design Between 1981-2009 | Webdesigner Depot
The first GUI was developed by researchers at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in the ’70s. This research opened a whole new era of computer graphic innovations.
Video Game Design Between 1990-2008 | By WDD
The first games became available back in the 80s, but in the 90s there was a real boom in consoles and computer video games.
Excellent timeline with examples and screenshots of games.
The Collection | MoMA
The Museum of Modern?Art and MoMA?PS1 are evolving collections of almost 200,000 works of modern and contemporary art. More than 93,000 works are currently available online.
The state of AI in 2021
The results of the latest McKinsey Global Survey on Al indicate that Al adoption continues to grow and that the benefits remain significant.
5 Things Gen Z Will Spend Money On & Why Marketers Need to Care
The study found that 45% of Gen Z have boycotted a business and 36% enjoy buying products that display their social and political beliefs. By Pamela Bump @HubSpot
Kennels / Atelier GOM. Lead Architect: Jiajing Zhang
The architect and client had been thinking about people and dogs ever since the triangular-shaped "corner" site at the southernmost of Aranya was defined as a pet hotel. @ArchDaily
Choosing Your North Star Metric | By Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan
Categories of North Star Metrics:
1. Revenue
2. Customer growth
3. Customer growth
4. Consumption growth
5. Engagement growth
6. Growth efficiency
7. User experience
Fable - Platform for creating motion design in the browser - Figma for motion graphics.
The intuitive yet advanced toolkit, collaboration, educational videos, free base plan, and pro.
End Procrastination By @ia
Simple techniques to get started:
1. Understand the word
2. Break it up
3. Find inspiration (don’t wait for it)
4. Separate procrastination and addiction
5. Get active
6. Change perspectives
7. Face the truth
SaaS UX: 5 Ways to Improve the Scannability of the Plan Matrix | By @Baymard
1. Group related features
2. Order groups by importance
3. Persist plan headings during scrolling
4. Scale the matrix for optimal display
5. Use horizontal styling to define rows
Accessibility is part of UX (it isn't a swear word)
People often go a bit wobbly when accessibility is mentioned. The reality is that accessibility is simply a key part of UX. By Léonie Watson | Nomensa @we_are_Nomensa
Emma Willard's Maps of Time
In the 21st-century, infographics are everywhere. Explores the pioneering work of Emma Willard (1787–1870), whose innovative maps of time laid the groundwork for the charts and graphics of today. By Susan Schulten
Books to help you answer big questions about yourself
To understand how your mind works and how you can improve your decision-making, explore this six psychology and behavioral economics books, each one recommended by a TED Talks speaker. @TEDTalks
New Wave Graphics Are the Most Influential Designs You’ve Probably Ignored
The slippery, unashamedly pop-leaning genre changed everything—graphics included. By Emily Gosling @AIGAeyeondesign
Design-Pattern Guidelines: Study Guide | By @NNgroup
Unsure how to design and implement user-interface patterns? Use this collection of links to our content about specific patterns.?
Intuitive Design? No Such Thing!
“Intuitive design” is one of those overused phrases that we as designers hear all too often from stakeholders and their requirements. By Carrie Webster @smashingmag