Weekly Design Links – 02/21/23

I finally got around to posting?my 2022 book review post. It’s not as comprehensive as I would have liked, but rather than waiting for 3 months to pass, I opted for getting something up over making something perfect. Perfect is a lie anyway.

Graphic Design/Branding

Pepsi’s 7UP rebrand is rather gorgeous

Just check out that drop shadow

Web Design/UX/UI

Onboarding Tutorials vs. Contextual Help

Tutorials interrupt users, don’t necessarily improve task performance, and are quickly forgotten. Contextual help signals can avoid these pitfalls but require unintrusive ways to activate

Apple’s Turns the Page on Books App Page Turns

It wasn’t just a cheap, pre-baked animation, though; it was one of the pinnacles of the skeuomorphic aesthetic

Work

Lessons of Design

The musings of a designer on loves about design and learned what he’s along the way

Industrial Design

The Boulder Teardrop Camper Is an EV Supercharger on Wheels

Holding a 75 kWh bank of EV batteries, allowing wanderers of the road to recharge their EV batteries with nary a charging station in site

Data Visualization

The Map of the Observable Universe

From the Milky Way to the edge of what can be seen

Photography

The Astonishing Biodiversity of Fungi Blooms in Max Mudie’s Macro Photographs

This is not ‘The Last of Us’ related

Typography

Diatype Rounded

Diatype’s friendlier cousin with rounded terminals in both standard and mono styles

Kassi by Almarena

Kassi??is a condensed typeface inspired by the scientific and mathematical world

Random

Rocky Bergen: Papercraft Models

Construct the computer from your childhood or build an entire computer museum at home with these paper models, free to download and share

If you like pictures as much as I do, check out this post on my blog.