Pick of The Week
Getting Started With Type Design: A Personal Journey
It can be difficult to know where to start.
One type designer will take you on their journey and let you know the step-by-step journey to get to grips with type design!
The Best of The Rest
Designer Lynx
An incredible, comprehensive list of links for all your UI needs.
With everything from inspiration websites, to prototyping tools, to design podcasts, this site has an amazing collection of links.
What the Failure of New Coke Can Teach Us About User Research And Design
In tests, people loved the taste of New Coke...
But in reality, sales well and truly flopped. Why did this happen? How could the taste tests have been so wrong? And what can we learn from one of the biggest blunders in marketing history?
Design Beyond a Screen: A Primer for VR, AR and the Multiverse
You've heard of VR and AR, but there are many more V's and R's out there.
Hearing phrases like Augmented Virtuality, Alternate Reality and Physical Virtuality, may just make your jump to sci-fi scenes, but these realms are much more real than you'd think. Take a look at how you can bring these ideas into your own designs.
Colour Management and Gamut
If someone specified a height of 50, what do you think that would mean?
50 kilometres, feet, inches or millimetres? You can’t know for sure, but you can guess. The same goes for colour, simply stating "red" or #ff0000 isn't enough. We need a description of the space it exists in as well as that colour value.
One More Thing
The Typography of 'Stranger Things'
The Stranger Things title sequence is pure, unadulterated typographic porn.
It's so simple and yet so, so effective. But what is it that makes it so good? How do a few pans of a logo accomplish so much in such a short amount of time?