The science of Happy Design
So much of the news about technology tells us that websites, mobile apps, and social media are bad for us. Supposedly, technology makes us anxious, our smartphones take us out of the present moment, and social media ensnares us in a dopamine loop.
Stir Kinetic Desk
A Srir kinetic Desk is an office desk.It makes moving while working, effortless and engaging. Creating extra energy while standing at your desk can lead to your most creative work.
An interesting list of must-read books about design
As Facebook’s director of product design, Margaret Gould Stewart (TED Talk: How giant websites design for you (and a billion others, too) has to come up with designs seen by literally billions of people. No pressure. She’s an old hand at this game, though, having previously worked on the digital output of those other giants, […]
Are we thinking about digital all wrong?
If digital is just a tool in our business arsenal, then it fundamentally alters how we approach this new medium. It will even redefine what your job should be. If digital is just a tool, we might not even need web professionals.
Edenspiekermann Talks Type, Branding & RWD
Robert Stulle of Edenspiekermann on an interview about web fonts and why type matters
The design sprint
The sprint is a five-day process for answering critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers. Developed at Google Ventures, it’s a “greatest hits” of business strategy, innovation, behavior science, design thinking, and more — packaged into a battle-tested process that any team can use.
The day you became a better designer
Author: Tobias van Scheider I received a lot of feedback on my articles recently. (big thank you for that!) While some appreciate the wide & weird range of topics, some ask me why I don’t write about real design topics. Such as, “How to solve UX problem XYZ” or “How to build the perfect responsive […]
Pocket synth noisemakers
Teenage Engineering’s been teasing its tiny PO-12 for nearly a year, and for the NAMM show, it’s officially launching its pocket synth not as a standalone unit, but as a line of little noisemakers that look like Casio calculators with their faceplates snapped off.
Stafidenios
Stafidenios is an innovative packaging packs quite a punch as it includes a surprise factor in the form of a hidden paper toy which is a real lure to parents and kids. Each package contains a different paper toy and has the intrinsic quality of being easily assembled regardless of the time and place.
For design friends
“Everybody can learn shit, but you don’t learn attitude!” or even “I prefer beginners who are nice to arseholes with skills”
Whether you make it or not is never about talent
“Can you tell who’s going to make it in your class?” I sometimes get this big question. And my answer is YES, I CAN. Their eyes open up twice as big. But wait! I need to explain a bit more. Recently in my class, a students, who is very talented, but lacking a bit of […]
Explaining graphic design to four year olds
I recently offered to talk at the local primary school, about my job (or at least part of my job). I expected to be speaking to the older kids, and be able to talk specifically about the cool parts of the job, and maybe some of the sucky bits too, and how you get around them.
Google’s Algorithm for Happiness at Work and in Life
We all want to be happy. Some even say that achieving happiness is the goal of life. While we don’t consider happiness the purview of technology companies—more the stuff of psychology or the arts—Google has made a real contribution to happiness studies thanks to one of it’s first engineering employees, Chade-Meng Tan.
11 personality traits of a successful freelance designer
What type of person does it take to thrive as a successful Freelance Graphic Designer? It’s an interesting personality mix: fiercely independent, yet collaborative, extremely confident, yet vulnerable and open-minded, firm, but flexible.