Design
The Dark Side Of “Friendly” Design
Friendly branding, it seems, sells.
But has the obsession with friendliness gone too far? It has become the catchall way of trying to engage consumers in a more “personal” and “authentic” way.
Data of Thrones
You know nothing Jon Snow.
So make sure you do know something for the new season. Check power rankings, character statuses, probability of survival and more for your favourite characters.
Pokémon Font
Pokéfont! Gotta catch 'em all!
Because who doesn't want to be transported back to their childhood? This font is an extended clone of the original font shipped with Pokémon games for the GAME BOY in the 90's!
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Creating a Vector Animation For The Web in a Post-Flash World
Adobe Flash, the program, was a great authoring tool for animation .
I don’t think anyone is complaining about Flash being dead (remember splash screens?) but one thing we miss a little bit is being able to easily create small, resolution independent animations for the web.
Design Principle: Error & Forgiveness
Making errors is an integral part of being a human.
We trip over when we are learning to walk and we press the wrong buttons when we use new UI. As Designers, we have to keep that in mind when designing.
Tools
Flow is a Typeface Built for Wireframing by Dan Ross
Designing with real content is important.
But sometimes we need something more abstract. Flow aims to provide an efficient and flexible way to create abstracted placeholder content.
Easily Create High Quality GIFs with Gifmock
Create GIFs from almost anything.
Import photos, Keynote slide, a video, or design your states in Sketch and you'll have a high quality GIF in seconds.
Abstract - Github for Design
Abstract helps modern design teams to work smarter and faster - together.
A design platform with stable tools and a light weight workflow so you can stay on top of your work easily.