Pick of The Week
The Great Design Battle of 2018 — Pick Your Side
As companies compete to cover designing, prototyping and handoff...
The throne seems to have been left empty. Who is the clear winner? What tool should you focus on?
The Best of The Rest
Optical Effects in User Interfaces (for True Nerds)
A circle and a square exactly the same size, pixel-perfect.
But why does the square always appear to be bigger? Find the solution to this and many other weird optical problems you may stumble upon in your interfaces.
What Happens When Data Scientists and Designers Work Together
In a data platform, data is (obviously) what's important.
But a screen full of graphs and numbers can be overwhelming to someone who isn't a data scientist. It isn't a data visualisation problem, it's a user experience problem.
The 3 Laws of Effective Notifications
Beeps, buzzes, rings, flags, pushes, and pings.
They push us to check our tech incessantly. But powerful as these cues are, people can easily uninstall your app or turn off notifications that annoy them.
Designing and Formatting Messages in Slack
Important messages can get often get lost.
So how can you make yours stand out from the crowd for things like announcements or summaries, in-channel meetings, and posting requests for others.
One More Thing
Type Glossary – Typography Deconstructed
What the heck is a swash?
Or a tittle? A quaint? A diacritic?! The technical words associated with type can often be confusing. So here's a glossary where you can look to find out what they heck they all mean.