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The ubiquity of 'Stories', Google unveils Material You, addressing misinformation on Twitter...
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User Experience
Spotify is rethinking their most important buttons based accessibility research
Good unveils ‘Material You’, The next stage for Material Design
Giving a damn about accessibility – A candid and practical handbook for designers.
Digital Trust
MIT study: Correcting falsehoods on Twitter makes misinformation worse in surprising ways – Polite corrections to factually inaccurate tweets set off an avalanche of further misinformation and toxic language.
Twitter finds racial bias in image-cropping AI
This hilarious game mimics all the insane ways companies trick you into giving up your data – Do you opt out of opting out of terms and conditions?
Design
Are designers idealists, path makers, or fortune tellers?
Design’s job is to help guide and shape our delivery efforts, to give purpose and intent to execution and to define and articulate the experiences we believe will influence customer behaviour (outcomes).
The absence of this upfront knowledge-work places an unfounded reliance on Agile and iterative delivery to simply just show us the way. In Agile we trust! But few great things in life are achieved without a plan and some semblance of a vision for where we are trying to get to.
Agile without direction is the proverbial fly with one wing removed. It spins at pace, sure, but with little to no sense of direction or momentum. In other words, all velocity, no trajectory!
Is university the only way to get into design? – Several factors might deter would be design students from university so we spoke to experts about how else they can break into the industry.
Unboxing the Design Museum’s blockbuster sneakers exhibition – Sneakers Unboxed: Studio to Street charts the rise of sports shoe, with exhibition design from InterestingProjects and graphics by Studio LP.
Does the “I Got Vaccinated” Sticker Have Swaying Power? – A sticker is both an insignia of the recently-vaxxed and a tiny tool of dissemination for a public health campaign
Branding
Koto has rebranded the popular messaging platform Discord
It’s Never Been Easier To Start a Brand. What Does That Mean For the Future of Design? – A cottage industry of infrastructure is popping up around creators who want to turn their personal brands into branded goods
Typography
Norbert, an Unaffected Yet Surprising Grotesque Typeface – A startling new sans serif that has no regular weight but a ton of extended and condensed character
Grilli Type’s latest typeface GT Maru takes inspiration from Japan’s friendly and efficient signage – Grilli Type’s co-founder Theirry Blancpain drew on his observations in Japan, coupled with Switzerland’s more functional approach to signage, in a typeface that feels “fun but not funny”.