Pick of The Week
Part 1: Designing The Envato Design Framework
It can be hard to unify your design process.
With many people on the same projects, it can be hard to follow and keep track of others' work. To tackle this challenge, let's take a look at how Envato designed their own framework.
The Best of The Rest
Mailchimp Rebrands as an Anti-Tech Company
As companies grow, their branding usually does too.
Which can mean the fun, quirky branding they started with gets streamlined out of the branding. But no, that's not the case here — Mailchimp have doubled down on the weird!
Using the New Data Feature in Sketch 52
Populate multiple shapes and text at once!
Sketch's new Data feature allows you to create your own image collections and lists to populate your designs! And take a look at the awesome trick with Symbols...
How to Build a Case For a Product Redesign
Updating the Crashlytics product with Material Design...
Not as simple as dragging across the elements and changing the colours. With a lot of design debt since it's creation in 2011, it was time for a complete redesign!
The Psychology of Design
Humans have a "blueprint" for how we perceive the world around us.
The study of psychology helps us define this blueprint, and as designers, we can leverage this psychology to help us make our products and experiences even more human-centered.
One More Thing
Font of All Knowledge? Researchers Develop Typeface They Say Can Boost Memory
The concept of “desirable difficulty” underpins this font’s design.
With an unusual seven-degree back slant to the left and gaps in each letter, the mind should seek to complete those shapes which slows reading and triggers memory!