➕ The Conditions 41
Where is technology headed? Cognitive bias in design, Stonewall re-brand, watch-face typography...
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User Experience
Where are we headed with technology? – Five observations from a product designer.
Driving design in a business-driven organisation – How might we increase design maturity in businesses which are not inherently design-driven? I think this is a practical challenge that product designers face.
Why is skeuomorphism not dead yet in music production UI?
Apple Design Award Finalists 2021
Branding
Companies Are Using Pride Month to Rainbow-Wash Bombs and Tasers – Raytheon, a military contractor with a business model that centers on making killing machines, changed its logo colors to a rainbow palette.
JKR rebrands Stonewall to usher in “a new era of bold activism and pride” – The project has been worked on via the studio’s philanthropic arm, the JKR Foundation, and aims to showcase the charity as “the leader it is”.
Soulyoga identity by German studio Adlips Design Bureau
Design
Cognitive Bias and the Design Process
Designers are just as vulnerable to the blindspots and fallacies that come with cognitive bias as the people who use the products and services we design. Bias can creep into the design process when we aren’t diligent enough to identify and mitigate it upfront. A big part of avoiding this is by cultivating awareness of when and how they can be introduced into the design process and influence design decisions.
The 2021 Design Week graduate show guide
Design Week’s guide to graduate degree shows, both in person and online shows as the country emerges from lockdown.
This Experimental Publisher Is Rethinking How Design Books Get Made – Volume, a Thames & Hudson imprint, uses crowdfunding to make beautiful books for niche audiences
Typography
Google has recently added 60 new fonts to Google Docs and Slides
A comprehensive article on the typography of watch faces by A Collected Man
Faubourg is an Unapologetic Ode to Parisian Vernacular Lettering – Quirky stroke contrast adds surprise (and delight) to this alphabet from an emerging type designer
What is the role of binary thinking in Western typography? – In an extract from her new co-authored book Extra Bold, Ellen Lupton breaks down the binary structures of typography.